A dead girl who can still see her family, who wouldn’t want to read from this perspective? While most books are written from the perspective of the person going through the problems, that was not the case with this book. The Lovely Bones, it was written from the perspective of Susie Salmon who has died and is now looking down from Heaven on her family. The Lovely Bones, is a unique book. There are specks that the reader might say, “Who really cares?”, while there are other parts where the reader wants to keep reading. An example of not being able to put the book down would have to be when Lindsey Salmon had broken into George Harvey’s house, the suspected murderer. Another example would be when Ruth Connors, the girl who has become obsessed with Susie, was hit by a car and had wished for her and Susie to trade soles. Ruth had wished for this so that Susie could be with her true love again, Ray Singh. With this, Susie and Ray were able to do everything they had wanted and then Ruth’s sole came back.
I imagine situations like this would cause readers to want and continue to read through those less intense parts because you never knew what was going to happen next. One moment someone was being killed and the next a wedding was happening. The story line was not that of an expected murder story, the murderer was never placed into prison. …show more content…
Abigail Salmon, Susie’s mother, had cheated on Mr. Salmon after Susie’s death as a form of coping. This affair led to a separation between Mr. and Mrs. Salmon, which seems to be a recurring theme in families anymore. While Abigail Salmon reached out to another man, Mr. Salmon stayed to himself, causing him to focus too much on the death of his oldest child, and forget about his two younger children. There are different ways of coping with death, and this book was able to jump right in and show that not everyone feels the same thing after a traumatic