The Lovely Bones

What metaphors are used in The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold?

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Examples of Metaphors:

I knew he was going to kill me. I did not realize then that I was an animal already dying.

In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.

Mr. Harvey left his house for the final time while my mother was granted her most temporal wish. To find a doorway out of her ruined heart, in merciful adultery.

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The Lovely Bones