How important is love?

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a lonely, miserable old man, that had no one to talk to? Well, in the book, The Lovely Bones, you can put yourself in this man’s shoes. Mr. Harvey came off as a nice man. He seemed like one of those people that wouldn’t harm a fly. This was obviously wrong, considering he killed a child. But, if this man would have someone to truly love him, he wouldn’t be a bad person.

Many people get sad because they don’t have someone special in their life. Because they have no one to hold them close when they’re sad. Because they have no one to love. This is how Mr. Harvey feels. Susie was an innocent girl that he betrayed. He never said he was going to hurt her, nor did he say he was going to do things to her, but she didn’t know. She died because of that man, because he had no one to love. Her last words were, “I love you.”, only because the man threatened her, but Mr. Harvey killed the fourteen year-old anyway. It’s a very sad world you live in when you have to threaten people into saying three simple words.

If at some moment and time Mr. Harvey had someone to tell him they loved him, everything would be great. No dead girls, no scary man living down the street, the world would be a big happy place. But, a disadvantage towards this situation would be that the Salmon family would never go through a problem. They just have a wonderful, happy life, well, until Susie went missing. If they never went through this problem, they would have never had the experience of having trouble in their life. And if something bad happens later, they won’t be ready for it. But then again, this is the only disadvantage to the idea, so Mr. Harvey should have a chance to be loved. If he did, the world would wondrously go round.