Death

Both The Lovely Bones and Before I Fall have the protagonists dying very suddenly at the beginning of the novels.

Over 90% of novels have some kind of death in it whether or not it's a human or an animal eventually someone dies. Most deaths are murders, some are suicides and others are accidents.

In The Lovely Bones, Susie is raped then murdered by Mr. Harvey. This was a planned murder and had a lot of planning and thought put into it so he wouldn't get caught right way, even though eventually he did! Mr. Harvey had also killed several other girls. He killed Jackie Meyer and Wendy Richter who were both 14, Leah Fox who was 12, Flora Hernandez who was 8, Leida Johnson who was 6 and Sophia Cichetti who was 49. George Harvey murdered December 6th, 1973 when she was 14. Susie was on her way home from school and she took a short cut through a cornfield because it was getting late and her mother hated her being late for dinner. She met Mr. Harvey there and he brought her into his bunker he had built for the 'neighbor kids'. Down in the dirt were many toys and candles lighting up the area. Mr.Harvey started scaring Susie so as she attempted to escape he pulled her down raped her then killed her. The only evidence the police found were her school notes, her elbow and her hat.

In Before I Fall, Sam dies in a car accident due to a drunk driver and slippery roads. Then as she relives the day and doesn't die Juliet the 'phsyco' commits suicide. She is down in her basement by herself and takes a gun and puts it right through her head. There were many reasons as to why Juliet could of had to the reasoning to do this, she was bullied at school, she never talked to anyone about her problems, her family life was awful and her father was abusive and an alcoholic.