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The lovely Bones By Alice Sebold


 * Sebold was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and grew up in the suburbs ofPhiladelphiaand graduated fromGreat Valley High SchoolinMalvern, Pennsylvaniain 1980. She was raped in the end of her freshman year, while walking home through a park on campus.**
 * //The Lovely Bones// a bestselling novel about a 14-year-old who is raped, murdered and dismembered. The main character tells her story from her personalized version of Heaven.**

Introduction


 * Main Points**
 * Rape
 * Murder
 * Heaven
 * Afterlife


 * Main characters**
 * Susie Salmon- raped and murdered.
 * Mr. Harvey- rapist and murderer.
 * Lindsey Salmon- Susie's younger sister, she found out who killed her sister.
 * Susie's dad- he had an idea of who killed her daughter, but didn’t had any proof.


 * Raped**
 * Rapist: Mr. Harvey.
 * Hiding place: Place where he capture Susie attention and precedes to rape her and kill her.
 * Bottle of coke: what he offers her to tried to relax her.
 * Situation: Mr. Harvey and Susie Fought, he press his lips against her and she tried to take him off from the top of her body.
 * Finally, He raped and killed her.


 * Murder**
 * Knife
 * Saved his book of sonnets, and the knife
 * Body inside waxy orange sack
 * Took remains to a sink hole 8 miles from the neighborhood
 * Put her (Susie's body) in a metal safe
 * Paid the owner of the sinkhole $20
 * Kept her Pennsylvania keystone

After Susie Salmon dies she goes to heaven but not a regular heaven. She goes to a magical place where she can do and be what ever she wants. This place is a re-creation of her high school, the school that she was supposed to go after graduating from middle school, and the play ground is like personal heaven because that is what she wants at that time of her life. This place is located between earth and heaven. In here she can see other people and talk but they are living they personal heaven too. From here she can see her family and friends' struggles Here she meets Nikki SooHoo the who would help on her way to accept her death because she would not accepted because here she didn’t have the love of her family and her lover Ray that guy who was supposed to give her first kiss. She stay in this temporal place until she accept her death.
 * Afterlife**


 * Heaven**

Does everything she didn’t get to do in life. Makes friends whom she could relate to. Figured out how life could have been for her. There are soccer posts. The building looks like she is in the suburban northeast high schools.

The novel ends with Susie showing Lindsey's newborn daughter then tracking away to a newer house where a man has finally found Susie’s old charm bracelet. This little girl's grown up by now. His wife says almost not quite, Susie's narrative voice rejoins. I wish you all a long and happy life...
 * Conclusion**