The Lovely Bones Chapter Summaries

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When I first heard about Lovely Bones, I was immediately intreged by the entire story and idea of the book. In the first chapter I was introduced to a lovely girl named Susie Salmon. She was just your average happy girl who was going through her teenage years. Sadly one night she was led away from her original trail home, and ended up getting raped and murdered by her neighnour Mr.Harvey. Harvey is a very sick man who obviouslyy knew what he was doing and after killing the poor girl, he cut up her body and ended up throwing her parts in a safe and throwing that down the large sink hole (except her elbow that a dog found). Her parents are devistated and while they try to move on, her father sets out to find the killer, and he actually knows who did the horrific deed, but has no proof other than a “fathers …show more content…

She did not deserve what happened to her, but if it hadn’t been her then Harvey would have killed someone else. He obviously had done the killing before since he was quite smart with what he was doing and showed that he got pleasure from it all. In the last chapter it showed that her father was trying to talk to all the leads and it showed his determination to find his daughters killer. After that it showed that Susie’s little brother Buckley was showing his friend nate the secret spot under her bed where she kept all her secret things she didn’t want anyone to find, it also revealed that Buckley could actually see Susie’s ghost, however I think it said that Susie doesn’t reveal herself to him and so I was a little confused. I am hoping that Susie actually does reveal herself to her family and I hope she would be able to tell them who her killer was, eventhough it definitely wouldn’t help with the investication and make her family look kind of crazy. Over all I am really enjoying this book and cannot wait to read more of

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