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Mr. Harmy's The Lovely Bones

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The Lovely Bones is a book about a girl being murdered and watching her family struggle to cope. The book takes place in December in 1973 when no one was worried about crimes happening in their neighborhood. The theme is about Mr. Harvey killing Susie and watching her family fall apart because of it. However, the movie doesn’t give as much detail as the book does. The movie does not show Susie being raped and murdered underground by Mr. Harvey. In the book Ray and Susie hook up but in the movie they only kiss. Abigail is not shown having an affair with Len outside of the hospital that Jack was staying at for knee surgery. Unlike the book, Susie’s intake counselor, Franny, did not make an appearance in the movie at all. The movie also said

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