Introspective

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 Sebold. 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 sin...