In the Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, she creates a story based on a brutal murder and a family faces the grieving process which is always hard to overcome. The story takes place in a small town with neighbors who are close in contact to each other.

A fourteen year old girl Susie is a regular junior high school student who hasn’t done a bad thing in her life and proves to be a decent girl. One day she is encountered by a neighbor of hers George Harvey in a corn field by her school. He asks her to follow him to his hide out and check it out. The whole time Mr. Harvey planned on trapping her so he could have his way with her. Mr. Harvey takes advantage of his over powering stature, so he easily takes the chance to rape and murder Susie.
The role that Mr. Harvey par takes is frightening and wants to make you open your eyes so you don’t picture the kind of torcher and agony he puts Susie through. The main climax of the story is heart wrenching and sad because Susie’s family has to mourn over her death the way she died and the fact of her not being around them anymore is too much for them to handle. The narration of the story is through Susie’s prospective, who else could tell her story while she waits for her turn to go to heaven she must show her family that it is okay that she is gone now and that Susie has accepted her death and would like to move on.