THE LOVELY BONES

Question 1

what are the key chapters for Jack?

Answer 1

2, 3, 5, 11, 13

Question 2

what are the A03 contextual points for Jack?

Answer 2

• Susie’s homodiegetic narration
• role of the father - against stereotypes of the time
• stages of grief (rage)

Question 3

what are the key chapters for susie?

Answer 3

all chapters

Question 4

what are the A03 points for susie?

Answer 4

• homodiegetic narration
• young perspective
• captures sense of teenagers in America in late 20th century

Question 5

what are the key chapters for lindsey?

Answer 5

late chapter 2, 5, 10, 17,

Question 6

what are the A03 points for lindsey?

Answer 6

• Lindsey is 13 when Susie is murdered. - Lindsey is representative of Susie and is a someone that Susie matures through
• Likewise, Lindsey’s maturation transpires as an outcome of Susie’s death and through her drive to keep her family intact

Question 7

what are the key chapters for abigail?

Answer 7

2, 12, 13, 19, 20

Question 8

what are the A03 points for abigail?

Answer 8

• goes against maternal gender stereotypes in the 1970s
• we see her conflict desire to be independent but also have a role as a mother
• incompatibility is typical conflict in early feminism

Question 9

what are the key chapters/pages for Buckley?

Answer 9

7, 16, snapshots, 18 19, 23

Question 9

what are the key chapters for Grandma Lynn?

Answer 9

2, 7, 9, snapshots

Question 10

what are the A03 points for Grandma Lynn?

Answer 10

she doesnt fulfil the cultural stereotype of traditional Grandma

Question 11

what are the key chapters for Ray?

Answer 11

• chapter 6 (p73) Ray and Susie’s talk on the scaffolding and he want to kiss her
• chapter 6 (p80) Ray meets with Ruth in the cornfield and they become friends
• chapter 22 - Ray kisses and makes love to Susie in Ruth’s body

Question 12

what are the A03 points for Ray?

Answer 12

cultural differences in America

Question 13

what are the key chapters for Ruth?

Answer 13

3, snapshots, 18, 23

Question 14

what are the key chapters for Mr Harvey?

Answer 14

1, 4, 8, 11, 14, 15

Question 15

what are the key chapters for the Salmon’s house?

Answer 15

• Susie’s looking back at her life at home - PG 210
  Photo of abigail - p42 - 43
• Jack smashing up the bottles - p46-47
• Harvey taking her body into the house - p50
• Sam kisses Lindsay + gives her a present - p70
• Sam and Lindsay get engaged - p244
• Lindsay remembering her house with Susie whilst in Harvey’s house

Question 16

what are the key chapters for heaven?

Answer 16

2, 3 (p40), 12 (p154),

Question 17

what are the key chapters/pages for Len Fenerman?

Answer 17

• Jack phones up Len about Harvey - p61
• Still trying to connect Harvey to Susies death three years later - p218 -219
• Len and Abigail kiss - p147 - 148

Question 18

what are the key chapters/pages for Samuel and Hal Heckler?

Answer 18

• Asks lindsay to marry him - p240
• Supports lindsay at the funeral - p109
• Hal brings Buckley drums - p315-317
• Hal leads lindsay away from the police station - p216
• He finds materials from his shop to help Buckley make a den

Question 19

what are the key chapters/pages for the cornfield?

Answer 19

• chapter 1 - Susie’s rape and murder
• chapter 11 - Jack attacks Brian in the cornfield
• chapters 14 & snapshots - Len realises the plans are solid proof
• chapter 16 - Susie’s vigil
• snapshots (223-4) Less people turn up each year on Susie’s death day

Question 20

where can you find examples of the Local community/ neighbourhood/ School / gifted symposium in the book?

Answer 20

• chapter 1 - ‘My murderer was a man from our neighbourhood’
• Memorial service - p109
• Vigil in cornfield - p49, 203
• School tries to comfort Lindsay - PG 30
• chapter 3 - Brian and Clarissa
• chapter 10 - They tell Lindsay the task is to create the perfect murder
• chapters 2, 14, 16, 18, bones - Susie’s community growing throughout the book

Question 21

where can you find lonely/abandoned/isolated places in the book?

Answer 21

Pg 51 - Susie remembering her childhood
Pg 293 - ray and ruth
Abandoned house - p234 -237
Harveys hideout - p271 & 278

Question 22

where can you find ideas about guilt/responsibility in the book?

Answer 22

Chapter 1 - ‘I fought hard..’,’taking candy from a baby’
‘You should’ve been more observant’
Snapshots - len
Chapter 5 -Jack guilt ‘the guilt on him’
Chapter 13 - Piggyback with Buckley ad trying to help Lindsay shave
Chapter 15 - ‘His heart beat wildly’

Question 23

where can you find ideas about romantic love in the book?

Answer 23

Chapter 1 - contrast w Mr Harvey
Chapter 5 - Linsday and sam
Chapter 10 - Lindsay and Sam have sex for the first time (same age Susie died)
Chapter 12 - Abigail reminiscing about putting the kids to bed to spend time with Jack
Chapter 17 - find the house
Chapter 19 - Abigail comes back to see Jack in the hospital
Chapter 20, PG 281 - Abigail and Jack talk on the bed
Chapter 22 - have sex through ruth’s body

Question 24

where can you find ideas about forgiveness/acceptance in the book?

Answer 24

p279 - Jack forgives abigail for leaving
p268 - Buckley tells Abigail to ** off
p317 - Lindsay tells her mum she knows what she did
p90 - photos of all the murder victims Len hasn’t solved
p232 - Accepted she won’t experience all the things Lindsay gets to experience

Question 25

what are the key chapters for Mr Harvey’s house?

Answer 25

11, 14

Question 26

what is a bildungsroman?

Answer 26

• protagonist develops morally and psychologically
• one person’s formative years or spiritual education