My final thoughts for the Lovely Bones is that it had a different kind of ending for sure. It didn't have the type of ending that i usually read. There wasn't really any justice or peace.

Although Suzie was finally realesed to the "wide heaven" does she really get to be at peace? Later on I have found out that Suzie see's Mr.Harvey in the wide heaven. I found it upsetting because not only did he take her life but now she has to spend the afterlife with him. Could you ever really find peace? Although back on earth it seems as if things with the Salmon family have started to come back togther. Lindsey and Samual gotten married, Jack and Abigail have been able to come back together to rasie Buckely in some what of a normal way. Sadly Grandma Lynn died 7 years after.

I find out that although Grandma Lynn has passed and that Suzie has not seen her in the "wide heaven". It makes me wonder can there be different heavens? Maybe for Suzie the justice is knowing that Mr. Harvey and her have the rest of there after life together, prehaps this is Mr. Harvey's fate now to have to spend forever with someone that he took the life of.
To me I beleive that is enough time to have justice and to make him suffer.

A different ending something that I would have never chose to read. For people that beleive that the dead watch over and sometimes they come back to earth for un finished business this is a book that you would enjoy.

Suzie's main conflict in this story is her inability to overcome her desire to live. She's angry that Mr. Harvey hurt her. In a way she is trying to live her life through her family. Shes not accepted that this is her fate. Suzie still feels that she must also help her family that has fallen apart.

This conflict is what makes this book interesting, it is the struggle of being so close to helping the people that you love but yet she is so far, its almost like a barrier that she cant get out of. It seems that Suzie can only connect with two of the other characters her brother Buckley who has throughout out the novel has "seen her" and Ruth a person who has a connection with the dead. Ruth has also seen Suzie. At one point in the book Suzie falls from heaven to earth and her soul is put into Ruth's body. It does not last long, but Suzie has time to feel somewhat "alive". Suzie's conflict is clear, It felt like she has so called "stuck " and can also not come to terms with her death to move forward in the "in between". Part of the reason that I believe she is there for is to help her family. In the end she is finally realised into the "wide heaven" she not only able to find healing but also help her family but find resolution to their own conflicts and also move on.


How do you come to terms with something that just wasnt ment to be or happen in your life?

Other than the fact that she is dead, Suzie seems to be doing okay, For the amount of time that she was alive in the book she seemed like a normal 14 year old girl. She had developed a small love interest with a boy from school and even got to experience her first kiss. She goes to school and has a close bond with her family and a very close relationship with her father. Unfortunately, Suzie at 14 her is also sweet and naïve and that is what leads to her murder. When Mr. Harvey, the “misunderstood” neighbour, asks Suzie if she would like to see his “special basement”, Suzie doesn't really want to but feels sorry for him and it does not occur to her that he could be dangerous. Through flashbacks Suzie reveals what terrible things that Mr. Harvey does to her before he kills her.
Although Suzie is the one that has been raped and murdered, her concern is for her family. She watches over them for a year hoping that they will find peace which will bring her peace so she can finally be released from the “inbetween” and finally be “free”.


Although Mr. Harvey was not really a stranger, do you think that children should be taught to be “street smart” without being fearful of everyone ?

"My name was Salmon, like the fish, first name Suzie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on december 6,1973."

The lovely bones is the story of a girl that was murdered in the small town that she lived in. The story is written from the point of view of Susie, it is rather interesting. After she describes her murder in full detail and what she thinks is her "heaven" is, she soon discovers that she is really in what is to be known as the "in between." From her so called "heaven" she can see what is going on , and how her family is reacting. She can also see the way that they are dealing with her death, as they are try to move on with there lives. Most importantly, she can watch the person that has caused all of this pain, her murderer, Mr.Harvey. Suzie keeps watching , even a year later to make sure her family has not given up on trying to find her killer.

Sometimes the book can be quite confusing because of the way that it was written. Right in the middle of the book it goes from Suzie's point of view to the way that a normal novel is written. The storyline takes you in to the individual family members and friends that are still dealing with her death. From her mothers affair , to her sister's new love, and her father still working to solve her case. But the most haunting of all is the fact that her killer Mr. Harvey is still free. Can Suzie finally find peace in her own heaven, can her family ever have justice?

The real question is do you think that there is an "in between"? Thinking about people that have passed on do you think that they may have unfinished business here on earth?