Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Lovely Bones
Context
- Written by Alice
Sebold
- First
published in
2002
- Sebold was raped during her
last year of school
- "Moves the story from just another sad crime to the realm of
fantastical realism"
- The womens liberation movement was
going on the 1970s (when the novel was
set)
- Women were achieving more rights
but were losing wage = were paid
45% less than men
- Men's roles in the 1970s were to provide for the family
- Men did not like women were fighting for
rights that didn't "belong" to them
- A poll in 1977 found that hald agreed
"women provoke rape by their
appearance"
- More than a third believed that "women
should be responsible for preventing their
victimisations in a rape"
- "A moving exploration of loss and
mourning that ultimately puts its
faith in the living"
- The 1970s were an era of economical struggle in America, cultural
change and technological innovation
- "This is a murder novel told from a
different point of view"
- The 1970s were about fighting for rights and for equality
between everyone