What chapter does Abigail leave in The Lovely Bones?

The Lovely Bones Chapter 16: Snapshots.
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What happens in Chapter 15 of The Lovely Bones?

Jack tries calling Detective Fenerman, but can't reach him. He learns the police are already at Harvey's. When Harvey fails to tell them about the missing drawing, they almost arrest him. But he pretends he didn't notice it missing, and shows them another drawing like it.
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What happens in chapter 21 in The Lovely Bones?

After the hospital, Susie watches Ray sleeping, and thinks of the first and only time he kissed her, by her locker at school. She wishes she could kiss him again. The next day, Ruth and Ray head for the sinkhole. Around the same time, Fenerman is going to the hospital and gives Jack and Abigail Susie's charm.
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What happens in Chapter 12 of The Lovely Bones?

By Alice Sebold

The Salmon family wakes to the sounds of the sirens coming to the cornfield and realize Jack isn't home. When Abigail finds out what happened, she rushes to the hospital, after forbidding Lindsey to come. Meanwhile, Lindsey calls Nate's mom, and arranges for her to babysit Buckley.
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What happens in Chapter 11 of The Lovely Bones?

The neighbors blame a mean kid, Joe Ellis, for their missing pets. He kills them, Susie realizes, to try to stop himself from killing another girl, like one of the school girls he can see and hear from his house. In August, the police can't take anymore of Jack Salmon's calls to the police station about Mr. Harvey.
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The Lovely Bones (2009) - Ending [1080p]



What types of dreams is Mr Harvey having now?

Mr. Harvey's dream of the Church is his favorite, and it is the one he has on the night of Susie's murder. These are “still” dreams, and he experiences them for a long while, until another kind of dream—“not still” dreams of women and children—returns to him. Mr.
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Where did Lindsay find the sketchbook of the sunken hole?

Lindsey finds Harvey's bedroom and goes in. She finds the sketchbook and hears a car. She finds the page Susie wants her to find. It's labeled "Stolfutz Cornfield" and it features a sketch of the underground hole, site of Susie's death.
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Did they find Susie's killer in The Lovely Bones?

Susie's grandmother (Abigail Salmon's mom) Lynn has flown in for the service. Mr. Harvey shows up to the funeral. Lynn and Lindsey don't recognize who he is, but they realize he's Susie's killer.
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Where do Lindsey and Samuel go for the summer?

It's summer now, and Lindsey, Samuel, and Ruth are attending "the statewide Gifted and Talented Symposium" (10.1). Samuel worships his brother Hal, who runs a bike shop behind the railroad tracks across from the sinkhole, and lives at home in an apartment on top of the garage.
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What happens in the book Lovely Bones?

The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by American writer Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death.
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What does the bathroom scene in The Lovely Bones mean?

The Bathroom Scene

She watches her family fall apart, the grief that her family and her crush Ray Singh went through, and in the end how her family, despite the turmoil, was able to come together again.
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Where was The Lovely Bones book published?

Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, 2002.
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Was Lovely Bones a true story?

Yes — kind of. The afterlife storyline, in which Susie watches her family from purgatory, is not real. But the original author of the book, Alice Sebold, stated that the story was partially based on a real rape and murder of a young girl in Norristown, Pennsylvania, who was kidnapped from her parents in the 1970s.
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Does Mr Harvey get caught?

George Harvey is a sadistic serial killer known for raping and murdering at least seven girls. He eventually gets killed by falling off a steep hill after trying to lure another girl into his car.
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What did Mr Harvey do to Susie?

On December 6, 1973, he lures his 14-year-old neighbor Susie Salmon into an underground "clubhouse" he had built in the woods near his house, and rapes and murders her once she is in his power. He then dismembers her body, puts her remains in a safe and dumps them in a landfill.
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Is Susie Salmon based on a true story?

Susie Salmon from The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Although no one would ever wish for Susie Salmon's character to be inspired by real events, it is based on a young girl's murder in Norristown, Pennsylvania in the 1970s.
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How did The Lovely Bones end?

The film ends with Harvey tumbling to an icy death in a ravine, but it's never stated whether or not he's connected to the other murders that Susie learns about in her afterlife. It's also unknown how wide the search for him had spread or how long he evaded the police.
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Why is it called The Lovely Bones?

Susie is saying that a) she sees her loved ones and their stories as the bones of a body of earthly happiness, of life; and b) she can stop anxiously hovering over them, because they are OK.
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How long does it take to read The Lovely Bones?

The average reader will spend 6 hours and 8 minutes reading this book at 250 WPM (words per minute).
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What happened in Chapter 8 of The Lovely Bones?

By Alice Sebold

His favorite building dream is of the Church of the Transfiguration, in the Vologda region of Russia. He dreamed it that night, after he killed Susie, and keeps dreaming it until the other dreams – dreams of women and kids – come back to him. These dreams are the "not still dreams" (8.2).
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Is The Lovely Bones on Netflix?

Watch The Lovely Bones | Netflix.
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Who is George Harvey based on?

Stanley Tucci based his portrayal of George Harvey on serial killer Dennis Rader, the "BTK Killer". Despite being a last-minute replacement, Mark Wahlberg was always one of Peter Jackson's first choices for the leading role.
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Is George Harvey a real person?

Like many real serial killers, Harvey, the fictional character in the 2002 bestseller "The Lovely Bones," lived a seemingly normal life among his neighbors, evading suspicion and cleverly eluding capture.
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Is The Lovely Bones book appropriate for a 13 year old?

Depending on maturity, this book could be appropriate for teenagers 13 & up. This book does discuss graphic situations such as sex, rape, and murder.
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What is Mr Salmon's nickname for his wife?

Jack Salmon gave his wife Abigail the nickname “Ocean Eyes” when they were still dating, and Susie, growing up, always assumed that the nickname referred to the color of Abigail's irises.
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