… She quickly learns this is a mistake, and he rapes and then kills her. She was fourteen years old when she was raped and murdered by her neighbor.
A large icicle then falls on his shoulder and as he tries to shake it off, he ends up falling down the ravine and he broke his back and neck on a tree, killing him instantly and brutally.Meet our narrator, Susie “like the fish” Salmon (1.1).
Clair said that she was not interested, he then responded by saying that it is not safe for a young lady to be walking around in the cold like that, she then fired back at him saying "piss off". George Harvey got rid of Susie's body by dumping it down a big sinkhole and filling it with cement, about six months later, George Harvey tried to encounter another young woman named Clair by saying that he will take the girl wherever she wanted to go. He can't have the idealised, loving home and family, so he builds structures that let him infiltrate and attack it.Īfter Mr. Since none of the other characters in The Lovely Bones exhibit jealousy or murderous tendencies, we can think of the allusions as clues pointing to jealousy as a motivator for Harvey's hideous behavior. Othello, unlike Harvey, is a largely sympathetic character, whose jealousy is fanned by the evil Iago, until he allows it to overcome him, and he murders his beloved wife. There are lots of allusions to Othello in the novel. Rather, it becomes the disguise that allows him to infiltrate the world he covets. Harvey makes enough to buy that family home in the suburbs but does not have any intention of filling it with a family of his own. His success gives him what his father's building couldn't, financial security. In Harvey, we see a yearning for an idealized home, and family, in his chosen profession: building dollhouses, idealised homes in miniature. We can say, with certainty, that Harvey's childhood was almost the complete opposite of Susie's. We can see that Harvey's father is an abusive person, but are not provided with details. Still, his father passes along his knowledge of building to his son. He can't tell people that his father " in the desert shacks of broken glass and old wood" (8.3). His family, before and after his mother disappears from it, seems pretty transient.Īs a kid, Harvey is ashamed that his father doesn't have a 'normal' job.
At one point Harvey's father abandons his mother in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. We learn that his mother was a desperate woman who taught Harvey to shoplift and even rob victims of roadside fatalities from alongside the road. He eventually gets killed by falling off a steep hill after trying to lure another girl into his car. George Harvey is a sadistic serial killer known for raping and murdering at least seven girls.
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