LAnny December 16, 2014
MKBA 101 T/F 9:00 – 10:30 Mr. Fajardo
The Lovely Bones
ALICE SEBOLD
I. Element of Plot
EXPOSITION
Susie Salmon is just like every young girl. She goes to school, has a best friend, and a boy that she likes. George Harvey, a middle aged man, is her neighbor. George was always quite strange, but Susie and her family didn’t think of it much. He invites her into an underground den. The one he is going to kill her in. But Susie doesn’t know that. Susie thinks that Mr. Harvey is a nice man. She’s wrong.
Jack Salmon is consumed with guilt after his daughter’s death, and will do anything to find the killer. Lindsey, Susie’s younger sister, helps him along the way. However, Len Fenerman, the detective, tries to work on the case by himself.
Susie watches her family from up above, watching them experience grief, happiness, true love. She watches her friends grow up, become successful, and get married. She watches her first and only kiss, Ray Singh find another girl. Susie also watches George. She watches as he lies to the police, as he leaves town, and watches him as he slips off a mountain, plunging to his death.
TIME
The Lovely Bones begins on December 6, 1973, with Susie's brutal beating, rape, murder, and dismemberment by her Then novel ends in the spring or summer of 1984.
Weaves backwards and forwards through time from the date of Susie's death. Susie remembers her earlier life. She also learns about Mr. Harvey's, while watching the lives of those she left behind over the next ten years.neighbor Mr. Harvey.
PLACE
The Lovely Bones is set mostly in an unnamed Pennsylvania suburb.
