Lovely bones why the title

The bones for which her family and the police search are hers, and as she is so innocent and vulnerable when her attacker pounces, they are described as lovely. Even if the sinkhole was not planning to be filled, objects discarded in the landfill are considered irretrievable. Daffodils — These flowers represent Susie.

The Ships in the Bottles — These projects, completed by Susie and her father, represent a time when she was needed and loved.

The theme of grief is the most important theme in the book. The author herself understands what this family experiences. In her book, Lucky , she tells the story of her own rape and near murder. This kind of experience can be so devastating that the victim must grieve what happened to her and how she has changed. It is a kind of primer or textbook for us all.

We, too, could someday face what the author and her characters have endured. The theme also allows the reader to understand these characters better, even George Harvey, the monster. The theme of love and acceptance weaves throughout the narrative. The farther the Salmons move away from each, the more they begin to realize they need to turn around and move back.

Watch options. Storyline Edit. A fourteen-year-old girl in suburban 's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body. The story of a life and everything that came after Rated PG for mature thematic material involving disturbing violent content and images, and some language. Did you know Edit.

Trivia In Alice Sebold 's original novel, a disturbing rape scene is recounted in great detail, an experience that Sebold had as a young woman. Writer, Producer, and Director Peter Jackson chose to omit this section of the story, feeling that the re-enactment of the ordeal would have not just overwhelmed this movie, but been too traumatic a sequence for the young Saoirse Ronan to endure. Alice Sebold reportedly disagreed with this omission.

Stanley Tucci , for his part, claimed that it was difficult enough for him to play scenes in which George was thinking about molesting Susie, and that he never would have agreed to perform an actual rape scene. Goofs George Harvey had to have dug out a rather large amount of earth to build the underground room where he murdered Susie. When we see him luring Susie into the room there is no pile of dirt anywhere in view. He would have also had to use the dirt to fill in the hole after dismantling the room.

Where did all of that dirt go? Additionally, he digs this deep underground room in one night, in the middle of winter, using only a shovel. This is impossible since, in Pennsylvania, the ground is typically frozen solid throughout the winter, and deep digging cannot be done without special equipment, such as a steam shovel. Quotes [last lines] Susie Salmon : [voiceover] When my mother came to my room, I realized that all this time, I'd been waiting for her. User reviews Review.

Top review. Jackson, the risk taker. I vaunt myself of being an independent thinker and yet I was taken by the atrocious reviews "The Lovely Bones" got. It combines, in the spirit of horror and Gothic conventions — love, life, death, and beauty. It also provides us with suspense and mystery — we want to know whose bones these, are and why they might be seen as lovely. Let's try out Mr. Harvey's perspective. He doesn't keep the bones of his human victims though he'd probably like too.

Nope, his bone collection comes from the neighborhood pets, whose disappearances are at first blamed on the unfortunate Joe Ellis. Susie tells us, "What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, lesser lives, to keep from killing a child" Fans of Twilight and Anne Rice's vampire tales will recognize that tune.

In any case, the animal bones are possibly lovely because they represent moments when Harvey resists his desires to rape, brutalize, and murder people. At first, all we can think about is the elbow — the only bone of Susie's that is found.