The Lovely Bones Sparknotes

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The fundamental components of a vampire story are an appealing, or illusive more established figure with degenerate values, a youthful, virginal guiltless lady, the obliteration of the female, and the proceeding with life power of the more seasoned meal. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. In this book, a youthful, virginal young lady is taken to a field. In the field, there is a cavern like structure that had been worked by an old, degenerate man (the vampire). The man assaults the young lady and hacks her up into pieces. This strips away her childhood, vitality, uprightness, and life. All through the novel, the young lady recounts to her story from the perspective of paradise. The novel shows how the world goes on, and the duration of the life

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