became
inspired to writefrom two different
instances. The first instance, is her own horrible
experience having been a
victim of a brutal rape during her college years. She already had
written a
novel about it in a memoir titled Lucky. However, she
used
elements of that situation to further develop the extremely sensible
topics of the rape, and the
murder of a young, innocent girl in The Lovely
Bones.
The second instance, as
Sebold narrates in the
introduction to The Lovely Bones, is the incidence of teenage girls
during
the 1970's which disappeared and were never found. This same observation is voiced by
the
character of Susie Salmon in the first chapter of the novel. It is
further evidence that
demonstrates Sebold's need to speak on behalf of these
young women, who are victims of a society
that had not yet become prepared to
deal with the reality of sociopathic behavior in "bread
and butter"
America.
In newspaper photos of missing
girls from the seventies, most looked like me: white girls with mousy brown hair. This
was
before kids of all races and genders started appearing on milk cartons or
in the daily mail. It
was still back when people believed things like that
didn't happen.
Therefore, the crime
committed against her, as well as the crimes
committed against other young
and innocent women, prompted Alice Sebold to use her exquisite
talent as a
writer to voice their pains, their anger, and the sense of injustice that exists
in
those situations. Nobody, but the victim herself, could be able to
explain, in detail the
effects of crime on innocent
people.
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