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The Lovely Bones Traumatic Changes
When bad things happen bad reactions occur, depending on what happened people could stay traumatized for long periods of time and even for life. In the beginning of The Lovely Bones, By Alice Sebold, Jack Salmon is an amazing husband and father but after Suzie’s gruesome death he becomes very lost and confused. This traumatic event causes him a radical transformation.
In Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, Jack is a responsible adult and did a good job as a father and husband. He showed his children love & tenderness. He held a steady job with an insurance company to support his family. He also showed his daughter the family hobby of building bottle ships. He tells her the important lessons hobbies can teach you, but when Suzie dies he changes drastically. Somehow he manages to hold onto his job but he goes a bit crazy.
Jack believes its Mr. Harvey that murdered his daughter and harasses him without any proof but purely based off his instinct. Len visits jack and tells him to stop calling the police station on Mr. Harvey. Jack later grabs a baseball bat and walks outside and follows Mr. Harvey to the cornfield. He thinks he sees Mr. Harvey and attacks him but realizes it’s a girl and her boyfriend. The boyfriend takes the bat and nearly beats Jack to death with it. Jack later hints to Lindsey to break into Mr. Harvey’s house, even though he doesn’t exactly say it, he did want her to. She then breaks into his house and finds drawings of the underground box where Mr. Harvey

Lira 2 killed Suzie. When she shows him the proof she finds he doesn’t scold her for doing something so dumb. He’s actually very pleased with what she found and even though she could’ve died if Mr. Harvey had caught her, h...

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...ack because he wants us to understand that anybody can change and he wants us to see the affect trauma has on people. Jack was a good father and husband, he was a family man with a very happy family, he held a steady job and was on the road to a good long life. But when Suzie died all of this went away, he barely managed to keep his job, his family was now a wreck, his wife wasn’t even able to stay at home so she left her family which made things a lot worse. This shows us that things can change so quickly, nothing is ever perfectly secured.
Trauma is a very dangerous state of mind. It can cause you to do very irrational things, it changes your whole way of thinking. Trauma makes you blame something or someone just to find closure and hopefully heal. Trauma can destroy families because they are unable to play their role correctly as the trauma itches at their mind.

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