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The Lovely Bones

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The Lovely Bones	comment	The Lovely Bones is a highly acclaimed, best-selling 2002 novel by Alice Sebold. Its heroine is Susie Salmon, who posthumously narrates the story of her family after her own rape and murder in December 1973. While she watches from her own private heaven, grief throws her family into disarray, and when the police investigation yields no clues, Susie's father and sister take matters into their own hands when clues lead them toward the actual murderer.The book was adapted to film by Peter Jackson and released in 2009. It stars Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci, and Susan Sarandon.Tropes specifically about the book go here. For the film see The Lovely Bones.
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The Lovely Bones / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: In the novel, Susie is raped before she is murdered, and it's described in graphic detail.
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The Lovely Bones / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Lovely Bones / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Before the epilogue Susie finally mentions The Lovely Bones and what they are. See Word Salad Title below.
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The Lovely Bones / int_1b9079be	type	Snooping Little Kid
The Lovely Bones / int_1b9079be	comment	Snooping Little Kid: Lindsey, when she sneaks into the killer's house to find proof following on her father's suspicions.
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The Lovely Bones / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
The Lovely Bones / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: Successful for Lindsey and Samuel. And possibly for Susie and Ray in that one would never live past childhood, but they did find a way.
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The Lovely Bones / int_1eefabd2	type	Late for School
The Lovely Bones / int_1eefabd2	comment	Late for School: Susie runs late to school, and has to sneak in through the auditorium. This allows her the chance to spend time with Ray and get a chance to understand Ruth a little better.
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The Lovely Bones / int_20ccdd29	type	Rear Window Investigation
The Lovely Bones / int_20ccdd29	comment	"Rear Window" Investigation: What Lindsey ends up doing at George Harvey's house. She cases it and takes a time when he is not home to break in and search for clues.
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The Lovely Bones / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
The Lovely Bones / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Susie mentions that if she had been more attentive to her surroundings, she would have noticed Mr. Harvey watching her, implying that she could have avoided her death. Even if she had refused to go with him to his 'clubhouse', there's a chance she might have gotten away.
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The Lovely Bones / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Lovely Bones / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun In the book it is the mention of the icicle. If Susie is narrating the story as we read it post-her going to the bigger heaven, then her mentioning of it as her perfect weapon is her foreshadowing that will be the cause of death for her murderer. Subverted in the case of Susie's charm bracelet. It's brought up enough times to feel significant, and Mr. Harvey left a charm from it with the body of another victim...but the people who find it in the landfill have no way of knowing its significance or who it belonged to. It's just something that was thrown away.
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The Lovely Bones / int_2801d7ca	type	School of No Studying
The Lovely Bones / int_2801d7ca	comment	School of No Studying: Invoked in Susie's heaven—it's built around a high school, since she never got old enough to attend during her life, where there are never any classes to attend.
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The Lovely Bones / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Lovely Bones / int_297ab1b9	comment	Due to the above-mentioned Parental Abandonment and his father's fragile condition, Lynn and Hal help raise Buckley.
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The Lovely Bones / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
The Lovely Bones / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: A partial example. Lindsey's daughter is named Abigail Suzanne.
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The Lovely Bones / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
The Lovely Bones / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: In the novel; The final scene is of Susie's charm bracelet being found later by someone with absolutely no idea whose it is; he merely comments "The little girl this belonged to is all grown up now," to which Susie responds, "Not quite."
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The Lovely Bones / int_33987735	type	Disposing of a Body
The Lovely Bones / int_33987735	comment	Disposing of a Body: Mr. Harvey gets rid of Susie's dismembered body by putting it in a safe and dropping it in the local sinkhole. Within Suzie's narration we learn Harvey had a habit of doing this with his various victims as well as shedding evidence of his mementos.
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The Lovely Bones / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
The Lovely Bones / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Susie herself at the beginning.
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The Lovely Bones / int_3d5377e5	comment	First-Person Peripheral Narrator: Susie narrates the novel from Heaven, witnessing the events on earth and experiencing hopes and longings for the things she no longer can do.
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The Lovely Bones / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Lovely Bones / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Rather than a victorious story about Susie's murderer getting caught and brought to justice, the book focuses on how Susie's death affects her family and friends. As in real life, everyone grieves in different ways - some accept Susie's death faster than others. By the book's end, years after the murder, the family is finally coming to terms with it to the point of getting rid of some of Susie's old things.
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The Lovely Bones / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Due to the above-mentioned Parental Abandonment and his father's fragile condition, Lynn and Hal help raise Buckley. Hal is very involved in Samuel's life, and is the only Heckler relative present at his major life events; because of this, readers can be forgiven for forgetting that the Heckler boys even have living parents.
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The Lovely Bones / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The story ends about 10-11 years after Susie's murder. By then Susie, her family, and her first love have accepted her death and moved on. Her family has also reconciled, deepened their bonds with each other and grown stronger as individuals. Minus some photographs, Susie's remaining possessions are donated, and her loved ones leave her in their memories, where Susie believes she was meant to be. Susie graduates to "wide wide Heaven", and only looks down at the Earth and her family sporadically. Lindsey and Samuel are married and have an infant daughter, Abigail Suzanne. Lindsey is a therapist, Ray is a doctor, and Ruth is trying to show everyone that the dead talk to the living. However, the safe containing Susie's body remains undiscovered in its sinkhole, and with the city considering filling it in, there is a chance it never will be. This means that Susie's family and friends may never be able to have a proper funeral or even know what befell her in that underground den. Though her murderer is killed after falling into a ravine (an outcome which might have been caused by Susie), preventing him from creating more victims, he is also never taken to court for his crimes and can no longer reveal where he buried his victims. Also, since it takes several weeks for his body to be found in the snowdrift and Susie ascends to "wide wide Heaven" a few pages later (thus ending the story), we never learn if his body was positively identified. Though the cold may help preserve the body, Susie's loved ones may never know that her murderer is dead, and thus believe that he is still out there creating new victims and escaping justice. In real life cases such as these, a fully wrapped-up conclusion doesn't always happen. Bitter memories and new sweet ones will remain combined in the fallout. At the very least, in Susie's reality, her family had found a way to live on and in the end should be together again in the afterlife.
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The Lovely Bones / int_4637914d	type	Suburban Gothic
The Lovely Bones / int_4637914d	comment	Suburban Gothic: Told from the point of view of a teenage girl watching her family from the afterlife after she is raped and murdered by a neighbor on her way home from school. The novel follows Susie as she learns that her neighbor is a serial killer and her family as her father looses himself in trying to find her killer and her mother has an affair and eventually leaves the family.
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The Lovely Bones / int_463fd2a4	comment	Resurrected Romance: Susie and Ray experience this, but only briefly.
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The Lovely Bones / int_48463e95	type	Not the First Victim
The Lovely Bones / int_48463e95	comment	Not the First Victim: Midway through, it's revealed that Susie was just one of several girls that Harvey killed— one of them just so happens to be Holly.
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The Lovely Bones / int_4e91b042	type	Making Love in All the Wrong Places
The Lovely Bones / int_4e91b042	comment	Making Love in All the Wrong Places: To the book as a whole, sex happens in some strange choices. Susie's rape is in a dug out room under a cornfield (Clarissa and Brian were going to do it just in the cornfield), the first Lindsey/Samuel is under a boat at Summercamp and the second is in a broken down house in the middle of the woods they later buy. Abigail/Len is inside a interstructure room at the mall. Ray/Susie in Ruth's body at least use a bed, but it's also Hal's bed that they kinda broke into his shop to get to.
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The Lovely Bones / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Susie on life. The book opens with her introduction telling us about when she died and then ends by wishing everyone a long and happy life. The first and last time Mr. Harvey appears in the book, he's stalking and attempting to lure in a victim; Susie in the cornfield, and a young woman in New Hampshire. Susie is too polite to refuse him and is caught, while the young woman recognises Harvey as a creep and escapes from him, and he dies in a freak accident almost immediately afterwards.
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The Lovely Bones / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: Ray, as stated by Susie's narration in the novel, after the Time Skip.
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The Lovely Bones / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Mr. Harvey dies by falling off a cliff when an icicle hits him.
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The Lovely Bones / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: An interlude chapter in the novel appropriately titled "Snapshots" illustrates this.
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The Lovely Bones / int_6459cc02	comment	I See Dead People: Ruth after Susie touches her shoulder on her way to heaven. She also has a vision of the dead victims and animals following Mr. Harvey's car, and spies one during her time in New York.
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The Lovely Bones / int_6532850f	type	Her Heart Will Go On
The Lovely Bones / int_6532850f	comment	Her Heart Will Go On: Ray still carries a torch for Susie years after her death, but by the end of the story is making his way to moving on, possibly with Ruth.
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The Lovely Bones / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
The Lovely Bones / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: In addition to below, the book has the dead able to see and "hover" over the living as Susie says but at times they can break through and the living can see them in form or their image. Why or how it does sometimes and not others is not ever really addressed. Susie herself sees Harvey's other victims taking up space when she watches her sister break in, implying they too are hovering watching, but Susie doesn't seem to actually "meet" them until a later scene in Heaven at a tree.
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The Lovely Bones / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Susie herself post death realizes she dropped the ball when it came to going along with Mr. Harvey, but Franny seems to know that happens a lot with the dead. That said, the way Susie is lured to her death is realistic and could have happened to anyone regardless of smarts. Especially given this is set in the 70's, before "stranger danger" was a real concept. A skeevy adult can get really far by exploiting a child's innate trust in adults and their fear of being impolite. Hell, the latter is an effective manipulating tool even with adults.
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The Lovely Bones / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Mr. Harvey has raped and killed several young girls in his life through various means, which Susie recounts to the reader.
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The Lovely Bones / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Many, many characters in the book that you think are major are actually minor and, once their part is served, you don't see them again. Chief Case: Susie's best friend, Clarissa. Seems like a main, but is never spoken of again after the incident that put Susie's dad in the hospital.
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The Lovely Bones / int_79228148	comment	Nostalgia Heaven: It's stated that each person's version of heaven is what they would have found most appealing in life; Susie's (in the book, at least) includes a high school and a duplex (because she wanted one while she was alive).
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The Lovely Bones / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: Mr. Harvey may as well have "serial killer" written on his forehead.
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The Lovely Bones / int_887da4ea	comment	Died Happily Ever After: When Susie moves out of the in-between and into heaven where she spends most of the time with her grandfather.
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The Lovely Bones / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Susie, but also Holly and the other girls she meets in the In Between, who are implied to be Harvey's previous victims.
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The Lovely Bones / int_8e13262d	comment	Virginity Makes You Stupid: Justified; sounds kind of weird to say The '70s were a more innocent time, but nowadays even a kid would know not to go in that hole. Speaking more broadly, the Alphabet Murders and the Freeway Phantom killings took place just a year or two before Susie's death. These were the subjects of huge national headlines and discussion. Warnings against "perverts" or "sex maniacs" were rife. What everyone at the time might not have caught onto was the fact that often the "pervert" is a neighbor or relative - which we still haven't today, as only a very small percentage of child abductions are committed by actual strangers, but try convincing people of this even now.
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The Lovely Bones / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Literally. After attempting and failing to ensnare another victim in an icy parking lot, Mr. Harvey is struck by a falling icicle and slips on the ice, plunging off a cliff to his death.
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The Lovely Bones / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: Jack's goal going into the cornfield is to take revenge on Harvey for killing his daughter. It doesn't work as he runs into Clarissa and Brian instead, and he ends up needing a new knee.
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The Lovely Bones / int_96709930	comment	Posthumous Narration: Susie narrates from the point of being dead. While Susie is young, it is worth remembering that sometimes she jumps around and comes back to smaller memories outside of the linear narration following her death. This doesn't really present her as a Unreliable Narrator, but is important to remember.
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The Lovely Bones / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Averted. Heaven has Frannie the intake counselor, whose tasks include dispensing Kool-Aid and urging the girls to accept their deaths and move on. That said, she quite cruelly reminds Susie how easily her murderer lured her into a trap ("Like taking candy from a baby") mere moments after dispensing this advice. So it's not quite clear how effective a therapist she is. In the book, Lindsey mentions that she decided to become a therapist while at college, probably so that she can help people going through what she went through.
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The Lovely Bones / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: Not for Susie, who dies in the first chapter, but for her younger sister, whose development Susie watches. Over the course of the story, Lindsey endures the grief of losing her sister and deals with her fractured family in the fallout. She goes through a lot, but by the end she is married and has a child, and has healthily matured from her past trauma.
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The Lovely Bones / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Ruth can come off as a little infatuated with Susie at times and expresses attraction towards women. However, she also kisses Ray and even allows Susie to possess her so she and Ray can have one night together. Neither Ruth nor the book one-hundred percent clarify her sexuality.
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The Lovely Bones / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Holly, Susie's roommate in Heaven doesn't reveal her real name but Holly she uses as a reference to Breakfast at Tiffany's Also Ray enjoys using Othello as a reference after it is assigned as reading in the story. He even calls himself "The Moor" in his love note to Susie.
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The Lovely Bones / int_e294a0be	comment	Our Souls Are Different : A soul possessing someone psychic is pretty common, the person whose body is being used getting to go up to Heaven in that moment, that's pretty much all Ruth. Susie even notes that Ruth is "breaking all the rules" by doing this. The watching the living part also seems to be different for different souls. Franny tells her she has to give up on watching the Earth but she and her grandfather still do. Harvey's other victims appear able to appear as ghosts and hover over Earth at times relating to him. However women who died in New York have to ask Susie about if Ruth has found where they died yet.
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The Lovely Bones / int_e3048d1b	comment	Amateur Sleuth After his daughter's murder, Jack tries to investigate Mr. Harvey with what little he has, but fails to confirm him as the killer. The stress eventually breaks him, and he assaults someone whom he mistook for Mr. Harvey Hal tries his hand in at least asking questions to people who come into his shop. Mr. Harvey even throws out some ideas to the police to avert suspicions. Even saying the blueprint of his underground room was an amateur sleuth hobby.
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