Mr Harvey The Lovely Bones

In the novel, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, the main character Susie Salmon tells the story from her point of view up in heaven. She was raped and murdered in a small Pennsylvania town by her neighbor Mr. Harvey. He built an underground shelter to lure her in and kill her. A detective, Len Fenerman tells her family that she has been killed based on the amount of blood in the earth and her elbow that was found. There is no body because Mr.Harvey chopped it up into pieces, put it in a safe and then, threw it in a sinkhole. Her father eventually figures out that Mr. Harvey killed her, he lets the police know but they have no evidence against him. When Susie’s soul was leaving Earth she touched a girl named Ruth. Ruth along with Susie’s crush, Ray becomes obsessed with Susie’s murder. First, Lindsey breaks into Mr. Harvey’s house knowing he is the killer to try and find evidence against him. She finds out that he has raped and killed many other girls, she escapes with the evidence. Thereafter, Mr. Harvey leaves town and Abigail (her mom) leaves her family to go to California for some alone time. A couple of years pass, Ruth is in college but then goes back

Her mother is going through something that is indescribable, and in order to deal with the pain of losing her daughter; she moves away from her family to learn to cope with this tragedy. Since he is so miserable, he is so focused on finding out what happened to Susie that he does not pay attention to his other children. The final and most important stage that they go through is acceptance. By the end of the novel, her whole family starts to come to terms with her death. They are still in a lot of pain that will never go away but they are beginning to move on. Even Susie accepts that she is dead and that she is not going to be able to change that. Overall, grief plays a major part in the novel by influencing the conflicts, plot and