The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Book • 2006 • Drama  

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Does the dog die?
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Mention of a dog and cat (as well as other animals) disappearing. Implied to have been killed by a disturbed boy. Nothing described.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is there bestiality?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is there body horror?
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Abuse
Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone stalked?
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Is a child abused?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Addiction
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There are some comments made towards the grandmother drinking a lot, but it is never specified or clarified
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
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Animal abuse/murder is mentioned.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does a cat die?
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Mention of a dog and cat (as well as other animals) disappearing. Implied to have been killed by a disturbed boy. Nothing described.
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
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Mavzoon
There is a very graphic pedophilic assault at the beginning of the book that is referred to often.
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Is someone restrained?
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Bodily Harm
Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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kourtney721
i mean technically someone was killed whilst underground
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Is someone tortured?
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Is there amputation?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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SPOILER at the end of the novel the murderer falls into a ravine and dies, it is unclear if he is killed but the fall or by the impact of the icicle that causes the fall.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Is there a hanging?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Romana
Briefly mentioned
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Does someone cheat?
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GreyCaprice
No, but a child's hat is used to gag her during her own murder.

Also of note, her father destroys a collection of ships in bottles that they made together.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Fear
Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Maybe not 'possessed' as such but the spirit of someone enters another's body (implied to be consensual)
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there ghosts?
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Romana
Susie is never labelled as a ghost, but after death she does occasionally 'appear' to other characters who are alive
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Are there jump scares?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Does someone spit?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Romana
The detective mentions that his wife committed suicide (no details given)
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Is there misophonia?
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Does someone self harm?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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GreyCaprice
The main character is murdered in a small underground bunker, the described feeling of being trapped could be described as claustrophobic.
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Pregnancy
Are there abortions?
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Is there childbirth?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Prejudice
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Does the black guy die first?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Is there hate speech?
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A teacher scolds a student for drawing naked images of other women (the implication being the teacher is homophobic).
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Are there nude scenes?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Sexism
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
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Social
Is someone homeless?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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GreyCaprice
Bittersweet. SPOILER The novel ends with the narrator managing to move on in the afterlife, and she seems to get revenge on her murderer. At the end of the day it is still a novel about a young girl being murdered so no part of the novel can really be described as happy.
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Vehicular
Is someone hit by a car?
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Is there gun violence?
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