His father’s abandonment of his mother when Mr. He obviously witnessed some kind of family dysfunction that triggered a dissociative response from him, wishing he was someone else, or away from his current state of being. As a child, “he would steep himself in the images of other places and other words, trying to love what he could not” (Sebold 97). At a young age, he was abandoned by his mother, which may have led to his choice of killing women and girls. Harvey experienced childhood trauma that may have been a reason to his actions. However, the evidence throughout the book explores Mr. Although he changes in many ways throughout the story, the power of Susie’s love for her family destroys him in the end. Harvey is a serial killer, which we will find out later in the book. While down in that secret room is where Mr. Harvey persuades her into a secret room he had built in the field. Salmon was taking her regular route home when Mr. In Alice Sebold’s novel “The Lovely Bones,” 14-year-old Susie Salmon is raped and murdered while on her way home from school. “I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973” (Sebold, 5).
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