In my junior high yearbook I had a quote from a Spanish poet my sister had turned me on to, Juan Ramon Jimenez. It was still back when people believed things like that didn't happen. This was before kids of all races and genders started appearing on milk cartons or in the daily mail. In newspaper photos of missing girls from the seventies, most looked like me: white girls with mousy brown hair. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. “In the tunnel where I was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an ampitheatre, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl had been murdered and dismembered.”Īlice also modeled the fictional rapist and murderer in her book, George Harvey, on real-life serial killers and rapists.My name was Salmon, like the fish first name, Susie.
The assailant likely said this because Alice, a virgin, struggled to follow his instructions. Some aspects of the story also mirrored Alice’s rape experience when she was 18.Īlice was beaten, sodomized, and raped by her assailant. “You’re the worst bitch I ever done this to,” the rapist said. Sebold stated that the story was loosely based on a real rape and murder of a young girl in the 1970s in Norristown, Pennsylvania. The film’s supernatural elements are made up, but the sexual violence aspects have real-world connections. The Lovely Bones is based on a fictional book of the same name by Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones is fictional but loosely based on real-life sexual violence Salmon is stuck between two impossible choices: seek revenge against her killer, or move on to let her family recover. Some people can feel Salmon’s presence, but communication from purgatory to earth is complicated.
However, she also wants to help identify her murderer before he rapes and kills again. Susie sees the suffering her family’s experiencing and desires to see them heal. Unfortunately, Salmon’s family finds it difficult to move on, having never experienced such a crushing tragedy. Her soul moves to purgatory, where she and other murdered children play. In The Lovely Bones, Susie Salmon is raped and murdered by her creepy neighbor George Harvey.
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