Love With Samuel Heckler And Mr Harvey example essay topic

When given the choice of selecting my outside reading project novel, I desired a novel that struck my interest. My choice was the fictional novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Seb old. The account begins in the 1970's and depicts a young girl who is raped by her neighbor, who proceeds to slay her. The girl's name is Susie Salmon, "like the fish". She was murdered on December 6, 1973. She leaves behind her father, Jack, her mother, Abigail, her younger sister, Lindsey, and her younger brother, Buckley.

Her murderer was her neighbor George Harvey. He convinced her into slipping down into the clubhouse he constructed underground in the cornfield. "I built this for the kids in the neighborhood. I thought it could be some sort of clubhouse". It was there that he raped and then murdered her by cutting her into many pieces. He then put the pieces in an old safe and covered up the "clubhouse" with dirt.

Dumping the safe into the sinkhole outside town, he left no evidence, but her elbow found by the Gilbert's dog. The Detective in charge of her case was Len Fenerman. He had searched for many victims' murders and had been unsuccessful, including the case involving his wife. Susie Salmon sits in heaven in her gazebo smelling the skunk odor in the air, because she always liked the smell on earth, watching her family and friends. The dramatic impact of her demise rips her parent's marriage apart. Her father believes Mr. Harvey is the murderer of Susie, but neither her mother nor Detective Fenerman do.

One night, Mr. Salmon attacks what he believed was Mr. Harvey in the dark, but it was Susie's friend Clarissa and her boyfriend Brian. Brian beat Mr. Salmon and then, once he realized who it was, desisted. It was this incidence that resulted in Mrs. Salmon having an affair with Detective Fenerman. Soon after, Mrs. Salmon left her family and headed to San Francisco and traveled to the Napa Valley where she attained a job at a winery. Her younger sister Lindsey was much different than her. Lindsey was athletic and immediately after the death of her sister began seeing Samuel Heckler.

Lindsey stood by her father and believed that Mr. Harvey was the killer. At the end of the novel she marries Samuel Heckler. Susie's younger brother Buckley is three years old when she dies. He does not understand what has happened. The way his family explains it to him is using the game monopoly, where his father takes Susie's piece away, the dog, because she is dead and the dog can no longer play. The dog is gone eternally, only to sit on Buckley's dresser.

Susie had the love of an Indian boy named Ray Singh. He had kissed her the day she died and gave her a love note. Ruth Connor, an eccentric withdrawn girl, admired her; she became infatuated after Susie's death. She wanted to be Susie and began a friendship with Ray Singh. They quickly became friends since they both arrived an hour before school. They would sit around the sand pit and talk about varieties of topics, including Susie.

They wondered what happened to her, why, and if she was listening to what they were saying; she was. Susie listened to many things and followed the path of her family and friends. She watched the conclusion of her parent's marriage, Lindsey falling in love with Samuel Heckler, and Mr. Harvey vanishing from the neighborhood. This novel makes its readers look at their own life. Wondering and hoping that the people we love, who have died, are listening.