Literature Analysis #1

# 1

                The plot of the book, The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, exposition begins with Susie Salmon being murder one day while she was walking home. The death of Susie takes place right across the school she attends. The climax of the story begins when Susie’s killer is almost found, but the police do not have enough evidence to arrest the man. The inciting incident that takes place would have to be the death of Susie. The narrator fulfills the author’s purpose of the story to that there might be an after life, and that things all happen for a reason.

#2

                The team of this novel would have to be the sooner or later you must learn how to let go.

-“‘I am going,’ he said ‘Where?’ I asked ‘Don’t worry, sweetheart. You’re so close’ “(261).

This quote shows how Susie’s grandfather is telling her to let go of her living family and that she must move on, in order for them to move on too.

#3

                The author’s tone would have to be anger, sad and happy.

-“’Bastard,’ he whispered. ‘You murderous bastard’” (137).

This explains how Susie’s father, Jack, feels angered about the man that he thinks killed his daughter.

-“somehow numbed her into disbelief-shattered” (28).

This explains how Susie’s mother feels when the detective shows her a piece of clothing that Susie was wearing before she died; the detective was holding the hat that had a pompom at the top of it. Her mother feels as her life has just ended because she now thinks that Susie is dead.

-“’ Granddaddy,’ I said. . . . I knew as we danced that something was happening on Earth and in heaven. A shifting” (260-261)

This shows how Susie is happy to see her grandfather in heaven and how she thinks something good is happing on Earth.

#4

-“He could feel the bump of the man’s body hitting the truck only a few feet from where he lay curled up inside” (190).

This quote shows an inciting incident because this is reason why Mr. Harvey, Susie’s Murder, started killing people, for revenge.

-“But I had to turn my back on heaven. I could do nothing trapped in my perfect world” (139-140).

Susie is having an internal conflict, because she wants to help her family and wishes she was not in heave so she id having conflict with herself.

-“’You know something,’ my father said. ‘Go home. I can’t help you’” (57).

This shows external conflict between Mr. Harvey and Susie’s dad. This shows how Susie’s dad knows that Mr. Harvey has something to do with the murder of Susie’s death.

-“There was my silver charm bracelet” (51).

Susie’s silver bracelet is very symbolic, because she wore it everywhere and it is going to be a very crucial detail in the novel.

-“The earth will swallow it