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Susie Salmon: A Lovely Bones

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Susie Salmon is a young girl who passed away at age fourteen, she was brutally murdered by George Harvey. She was a good-natured and intelligent girl. She wanted to be different from others and that made her a distinct individual. This is a quote from Susie herself before she passed away, “I chose it both because it expressed my contempt for my structured surroundings á la the classroom and because, not being some dopey quote from a rock group, I thought it marked me as literary.” She watched as her family went through hard times but also saw the good times. In the end, everything worked out well. Her family moved on but they never could forget her. Her sister Lindsey, married to her high school boyfriend Samuel. Her brother Buckley grew

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