Essay About Typical Fourteen-Year-Old Girl And Alice Sebolds Novel

Lovely Bones
Essay title: Lovely Bones
A lot of times we make plans, we think we can keep putting them off, but too
people take life for granted and sometimes that next day doesn’t come around.
You know we are
all guilty of this and it is time to get it together and stop waiting till the
last minute for friends
and family.
In Alice Sebolds novel “The Lovely Bones” the two main characters are Susie
Salmon
and Mr. Harvey. Susie was a typical fourteen-year-old girl who enjoyed school
and was raped
and murdered by her neighbor. Her favorite teacher was Mr. Botte who taught
biology. Mr.
Harvey was Susie’s murderer from her neighborhood and was very friendly with her
parents.
Her mother liked his flowers and her father only talked to him once about
fertilizer. He believed
in old fashion things like coffee ground or egg shells to grow flowers. Susie
was the oldest child
in her family, she always listened to her parents and tried to be home by dark
like she was
instructed to do. Mr. Harvey was a lonely man. He liked to build things like
clubhouses for little
kids. This is where he would lure them in and sexually seduce them.
Could you imagine if there was an unsolved murder in your hometown? Would you
safe if the police had no leads? On December 6, 1973, it was snowing and Susie
took a short cut
on her way home from school through the corn field. It was dark out because the
days get shorter
in winter, the snow was lightly falling onto the broken cornstalks. Mr. Harvey
took her to his
underground clubhouse that he had built. Susie had told him that she needed to