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A 4 page essay that discusses Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones, which begins with the protagonist, a fourteen-year-old girl named Susie, stating that she was murdered on December 6, 1973 (Sebold 5). Each of the principle characters in the narrative react to Susie's death in their own particular way. With the omniscience of death, Susie describes this with crystal clarity from her perspective in heaven. Using this narrative device, Sebold is able to delineate the various ways that people react to grief, loss and the guilt that comes from remaining alive when someone dear to us has died. The writer discusses how each character reacts to Susie's death.
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of the principle characters in the narrative react to Susies death in their own particular way. With the omniscience of death, Susie describes this with crystal clarity from her perspective
in heaven. Using this narrative device, Sebold is able to delineate the various ways that people react to grief, loss and the guilt that comes from remaining alive when someone
dear to us has died. Jack Salmon, Susies father, reacts by becoming obsessed with finding Susies killer. He become convinced that Mr. Harvey, a weirdly acting neighbor, is guilty
and he is right. In obsessing on the murderer and clinging to Susies memory, he becomes so focused on her death that he drives his wife away and damages his
relationship with his surviving children, Lindsey and Buckley. Jack pesters the police officers involved in the case and makes a spectacle of himself by mistaking two teens in the cornfield
as connected with Susie and the murder. Years after Susies death, Jack will not allow Buckley to shred Susies old clothes to make ties for staking his tomato plants. On
the other hand, particularly in the early years after Susies death, Jack takes on more of the responsibility for raising Lindsey and Buckley. It is Jack that instructs Lindsey on
how to save her legs and he and Buckley become almost inseparable. However, in the background, Jack makes it clear that he still considers himself to be the father of
three children, as the memory of Susie is omnipresent. Buckley learns to resent this and his anger comes out in the scene with the clothes and the tomato plants.
Abigail Salmon, Susies mother, retreats into herself. She and Jack cannot find solace in each other because they are both hurting so badly. Abigail has basically the opposite reaction as
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