The Lovely Bones Movie Vs Book Analysis

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Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones is a hauntingly beautiful story of a 14-year old girl Susie Salmon and her murder, that the reader won’t want to put down. Sebold demonstrates how everyone in the Salmon family copes with loss in their own way. She also illustrates the struggle that Susie has coming to grips with her own death. The film, however, is different. As the novel was transferred from paper to film Peter Jackson the director let key components of the book get lost in translation. The movie does a disservice to the book because the adaptation of the film weakened the novel’s narrative

The novel The Lovely Bones is about a typical American family that lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia and the horrific event that happens within

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