book report!

Sebold, Alice. Lovely Bones. New York. Delacorte Press: 1995.

Reason, Type and Setting: I chose this book because it was in a list containing on of my favorite books Perks of Being a Wallflower. Also my sister really liked this book and we share some of the same interests so I decided to give it a try. It's a fiction book that is like a mystery/action. It takes place in Connection/Pennsylvania, and during the 70's

Plot: In the beginning it takes about a girl, how she was and then she gets killed by a man. The narrarator is Susie Salmon the little 14 year old girl that was raped and murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey. She is telling the story while she watches her family, friends, and her murderer. She looks throughout the lives of others and can find out what led them to how they act now. She watches as her family falls apart, her friends grow up, everything. Everyone talks to her somehow throughout the book. Her father has a instinct about Mr. Harvey but he's too quick and has an excuse for everything. Even when Lindsay [her little sister] sneaks into Mr. Harvey's house and steals some evidence and he has an excuse for that. In the end Susie realizes the "the event of her death was just a bone in the body that will become whole one day." "The price of what I came to see as this miraculous lifeless body had been my life."

Character: Susie Salmon. She had blonde hair that turned more to a brown color. She was lean and pale, with a face like her mom's. She's quiet and soft, she isn't powerful but no girls in that time were very strong. She loves her family and she is very understanding and open.

Evaluation: I liked this book, it was really intense, like it made me cry at some points. Like imagining me losing one of my family members or me watching them not being able to care for them or talk to them but helplessly watch. I thought it was amazing and it really made me think. I think the point of the book was to make you think and maybe come to some realizations. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes to think and exercise their minds. This book is definitly based on real life, these things happen but I'm not sure that's what happens after you die, I'm not sure but that made me think of the possibilities. I don't think this book is neccesary to read but I think it is neccesary to open your mind up to different possibilities.

Author, Context and Trivia: I don't really know anything about her I just know she lives in California with her husband, and I know that there is a movie being created.

Reader Response; Quote and comment: "These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous lifeless body had been my life." This quote was said by Susie Salmon. I chose it because it just made me open my eyes, like it was a interesting theory, like no matter what events happen.