Summary
Susie is in heaven and she got to meet the other people that Mr. Harvey had killed: Jackie Meyer, she was 13 year old. Flora Hernandez; she was 8 years old. Leah Fox was13 years old when she was murdered. Sophie Cichetti was 49 years old and other. He goes around telling people that Sophie was his wife before she died of cancer, although he is a bachelor.
After Lindsey stole the drawings, she gave them to her father who gave it to the police as evidence. Later on the same day, two policemen were sent to Mr. Harvey’s house for inspection. Abigail who denies to her mother that she is not having an affair commits adultery with policeman Len Fenerman in the basement of the mall. Mr. Harvey keeps getting flash back of his childhood and they seem to hurt him.
Ruth Conner and Ray Singh hang out because they were the only people close Susie before she died. Susie’s talks to Ruth and tries to tell them but they don’t believe her. When Lindsey tries to tell Abigail about Susie’s dead she does not want to hear anything about the daughter’s dead. She does not want anything with the family. Lindsey goes to the police station to see what they were doing with the drawing that her father gave to them and instead she found her mother’s scarf in Len’s office. When she asked him what it was doing there he could not answer, then she knew that something between them had happen and it is the reason of her mother‘s behavior.
Everyone on the neighborhood is talking about Mr. Harvey killing Susie. He was afraid that he might get caught so he leaves for Connecticut. After he left, Len began to blame himself for not solving the case involving Susie. He now believes that it was Mr. Harvey but he could not prove it. A hunter later on found Susie’s bracelet when he was hunting. Abigail leaves her family and heads for California.
Mr. Harvey moved to boston because he was being question by the police lately,also Lindsey has prove that he might have kill her sister. The dective called the police and the bones were matched to susie's body. Hal,Sam's older brother is on the invsetigation to look for Mr. Harvey,the dective told Hal that the killer loved to builddoll house and this was linked to Mr.Harvey.
Lindsey just graduated from college and she is 21 years old. she graduated from Temple University. Samuel proposed toher and she said yes. Buckley still sees Susie'swhenever he closes his eyes. Later,all of a suddenly Jack got a cardiac arrest and was rushed to the hospital.Grandma Lynn flew from her home to meet the kids and Abigail also left california to see Jack in the hospital.Buckley hates his mother because she left the family when he was a child and now she is back.The police decided to give the salmon the bracklet that they found. Len the policeman was sent to give it to them and when Abigail saw him she was angry and demaned that he leave because he almost tore up the family.
Susie enter Ruth Body and begins to talk to Ray. They talk about life and how he has being coping but he does not know that it is susie inside the body.Grandma Lynn dies and get buried.Lindsey gives birth to a girl and named her Suzanna Abigial.Mr. harvey was killed by an icicle when trying to hit on a teenage but was never found because he was buried by the snow. Not the end that I expected.
Quote
“Don’t you want anything” (Sebold 334).
Reaction
This quote is very important because the book is about Susie getting murder and what she wants is for Mr. Harvey to be caught and that her family to come together as before. She wants them to move on with their lives and she want to be alive. It was very awkward when Ruth asked her this question and she did not respond back to her. Maybe it is one of the rules that the dead cannot speak to the living or it was because she did not want to interrupt the future.
Question?
1) Why did the author choose to tell who the killer of Susie was at the beginning of the book?
2) Why did she put Mr.Harvey's dead as a mystery?
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
The lovely Bones (150-275)
So far Susie is dead and the murder is George Harvey and no one else does. They are trying to solve the mystery.
Summary
Buckley is Susie’s younger brother who has a friend named Nate. Buckley later on tells Nate that he sees Susie whenever he looks up to heaven. Mr. Harvey had a bad childhood when he was a kid, his mother who he had a close relationship with left the family and he was alone with his father. It is time for Susie’s funeral. Grandma Lynn is with the family and she teaches the Lindsey how to wear make-up since she is the only one that Lindsey wants to talk to, later on Lindsey tells her that she has a boyfriend. Mr. Harvey attends the funeral but he leaves unnoticed. Ruth Conner, the poet is the only person that Susie talks to; she said that she can feel Susie around which is true. Lindsey finally admits to Ruth that she misses Susie, “More than anyone will ever know” (Sebold 137).
Susie is not the only one that Mr. Harvey had murdered. There was a young girl named Claire and he tried to kill her before but she kept on crying and people came to her rescue. Mr. Harvey used to kill animals, and then he began to kill humans. He tried to stop but couldn’t. In Lindsey’s school there used to be a competition every year and this year it was changed to “How to Commit the Perfect Murder” and Lindsey is not happy with it. Len the Policeman stopped the investigation on the killing of Susie but Jack still think that it is Mr. Harvey who is the killer. Abigail seems interested in Len. Jack goes out to the cornfield to kill Mr. Harvey, he takes a bat as a weapon and he hits Clarissa and boyfriend who then called the police on him. In the Hospital Abigail and Len the policeman began to flirt and kiss. The book later on tells that Abigail needed someone to let out her dead daughter out and Len was the person she chose.
Grandma Lynn comes home and She notices Abigail Strangeness, although Jack does not pay attention to Abigail which many people would conclude was the reason that she later went on to commit adultery. Lynn noticed her behavior and they went for a walk together. While walking, Lynn tells her daughter to stop having an affair and Abigail denies it. Also Grandma Lynn believes that Harvey is the killer.
Jack believing that his theory about Mr. Harvey killing his daughter, he does not give up and when Lindsey asked him who he taught the killer was he told her. The next day, while jogging with the boy’s soccer team, Lindsey skipped practice and broke into Mr. Harvey’s house and stole one of his drawings. He saw her but it was too late before he could do anything.
Quotes
“Lonely I though on earth as it is in heaven” (Sebold 140).
“My humor buried my acceptance” (Sebold 191).
Reaction
The first quote is Susie’s though while she is in heaven. She misses her friends and family and feels alone in heaven. The heaven that she is in is not what she expected. It is not bad but at the same time she is not comfortable. It’s like her soul is not at peace. She is watching down on her family and they are depressed and so is she. The other quote was made by Grandma Lynn when she noticed that Abigail was having an affair with someone. She begins to tell her about her own life. Her husband also cheated oh her and she use her humor not to show that she is worried. These are good quotes because it explains what is going in the book. The quotes give you a foundation of the summary of the book.
Summary
Buckley is Susie’s younger brother who has a friend named Nate. Buckley later on tells Nate that he sees Susie whenever he looks up to heaven. Mr. Harvey had a bad childhood when he was a kid, his mother who he had a close relationship with left the family and he was alone with his father. It is time for Susie’s funeral. Grandma Lynn is with the family and she teaches the Lindsey how to wear make-up since she is the only one that Lindsey wants to talk to, later on Lindsey tells her that she has a boyfriend. Mr. Harvey attends the funeral but he leaves unnoticed. Ruth Conner, the poet is the only person that Susie talks to; she said that she can feel Susie around which is true. Lindsey finally admits to Ruth that she misses Susie, “More than anyone will ever know” (Sebold 137).
Susie is not the only one that Mr. Harvey had murdered. There was a young girl named Claire and he tried to kill her before but she kept on crying and people came to her rescue. Mr. Harvey used to kill animals, and then he began to kill humans. He tried to stop but couldn’t. In Lindsey’s school there used to be a competition every year and this year it was changed to “How to Commit the Perfect Murder” and Lindsey is not happy with it. Len the Policeman stopped the investigation on the killing of Susie but Jack still think that it is Mr. Harvey who is the killer. Abigail seems interested in Len. Jack goes out to the cornfield to kill Mr. Harvey, he takes a bat as a weapon and he hits Clarissa and boyfriend who then called the police on him. In the Hospital Abigail and Len the policeman began to flirt and kiss. The book later on tells that Abigail needed someone to let out her dead daughter out and Len was the person she chose.
Grandma Lynn comes home and She notices Abigail Strangeness, although Jack does not pay attention to Abigail which many people would conclude was the reason that she later went on to commit adultery. Lynn noticed her behavior and they went for a walk together. While walking, Lynn tells her daughter to stop having an affair and Abigail denies it. Also Grandma Lynn believes that Harvey is the killer.
Jack believing that his theory about Mr. Harvey killing his daughter, he does not give up and when Lindsey asked him who he taught the killer was he told her. The next day, while jogging with the boy’s soccer team, Lindsey skipped practice and broke into Mr. Harvey’s house and stole one of his drawings. He saw her but it was too late before he could do anything.
Quotes
“Lonely I though on earth as it is in heaven” (Sebold 140).
“My humor buried my acceptance” (Sebold 191).
Reaction
The first quote is Susie’s though while she is in heaven. She misses her friends and family and feels alone in heaven. The heaven that she is in is not what she expected. It is not bad but at the same time she is not comfortable. It’s like her soul is not at peace. She is watching down on her family and they are depressed and so is she. The other quote was made by Grandma Lynn when she noticed that Abigail was having an affair with someone. She begins to tell her about her own life. Her husband also cheated oh her and she use her humor not to show that she is worried. These are good quotes because it explains what is going in the book. The quotes give you a foundation of the summary of the book.
The lovely Bones (1- 150)
Plot and Setting.
Susie lived in Philadelphia and was killed on December 6, 1973,
Main Character
Susie Salmon- 14 years old who got killed by her neighbor
Jack and Abigail Salmon- Susie’s Father and Mother.
Buckley and Lindsey salmon- Susie’s Brother and Sister
Grandma Lynn- Susie’s grandmother
George Harvey- The Salmon neighbor who killed Susie.
Summary
So far Susie was coming back from home when Mr. Harvey asked her to come into his doll house there he rapes her and killed her. This story is a narration and the main character Susie is the narrator. "Tell me you love me" (Se-bold 16). Hr Harvey tells Susie to say these words before he killed her. Len is the policeman working on the case. He has been gathering up evidence but her parent does not want to accept the fact that their daughter is dead. They found her bone of the elbow. Susie describes heaven as a different dream. Everyone’s heaven is different and it is better than her reality school. Instead of reading regular books they read vogue and glamour and seventeen. In Heaven she befriends a girl named Holly. Ray Singh is a boy that had a crush on Susie and he is the first suspect but her parents don’t believe that he is the one that killed her. Lindsey on the other hand is the true blond of the family; she is the opposite of her sister, Susie. Once she was asked to play on the soccer team she responded saying “I’d say it would be pretty hard to play soccer on the soccer field where it's approximately 20 feet from where my sister was supposedly murdered" (Se-bold 36). Jack feels guilty that he was not there when his daughter needed him.
Susie said that she was not the first that Mr. Harvey and killed. this book gives evidence that he had killed other children by this following details "he knew to remove my body from the field, he knew to watch the weather and to kill during an arc of light from heavy precipitation because he had rob the police out of evidence" (Se-bold 57). Mr. Harvey buried the remaining of Susie's body by dumping it into a sink hole that Susie used to adore. Susie had a bracelet that she wore on the day of her murder and Mr. Harvey throws the bracelet into the lake. While in Heaven Susie wishes for one thing; for Mr. Harvey to be dead and she to be alive but it is impossible. She wanted revenge on Mr. Harvey.
Abigail does not like to be a mother; by the way the book describes her it feels like the kids got in her way of achieving her dreams. Mr. Salmon helps Mr. Harvey to build a tent; he does not realize that he is helping the murderer of his daughter. Afterward, Jack begins to suspect George Harvey is the killer. Abigail and Jack seem to grow distance from each other.
Quote
“You were not there when your daughter needed you” (Se-bold 65).
“There was a window of time during which physical evidence was usually found; that window grew smaller everyday” (Se-bold 69).
Reaction
Jack Salmon feels guilty about the death of Susie because he was not there for her. The quote shows the father is worried and he misses his daughter he is trying to find the person that killed Susie and he think that the killer is Mr. Harvey. This quote came to him while he was lying down on the couch crying about where Susie is? The other quote tells gives us a foreshadowing that the murderer might not be caught. The window getting smaller means that the chance of them finding the murderer might not happen because there is no solid evidence.
Question
1). Why does Susie mother seem too depressed before the death of her daughter?
2). Why doesn’t Lindsey say how she feels about the death of Susie?
3). why does Mr. Harvey like to kill people?
Susie lived in Philadelphia and was killed on December 6, 1973,
Main Character
Susie Salmon- 14 years old who got killed by her neighbor
Jack and Abigail Salmon- Susie’s Father and Mother.
Buckley and Lindsey salmon- Susie’s Brother and Sister
Grandma Lynn- Susie’s grandmother
George Harvey- The Salmon neighbor who killed Susie.
Summary
So far Susie was coming back from home when Mr. Harvey asked her to come into his doll house there he rapes her and killed her. This story is a narration and the main character Susie is the narrator. "Tell me you love me" (Se-bold 16). Hr Harvey tells Susie to say these words before he killed her. Len is the policeman working on the case. He has been gathering up evidence but her parent does not want to accept the fact that their daughter is dead. They found her bone of the elbow. Susie describes heaven as a different dream. Everyone’s heaven is different and it is better than her reality school. Instead of reading regular books they read vogue and glamour and seventeen. In Heaven she befriends a girl named Holly. Ray Singh is a boy that had a crush on Susie and he is the first suspect but her parents don’t believe that he is the one that killed her. Lindsey on the other hand is the true blond of the family; she is the opposite of her sister, Susie. Once she was asked to play on the soccer team she responded saying “I’d say it would be pretty hard to play soccer on the soccer field where it's approximately 20 feet from where my sister was supposedly murdered" (Se-bold 36). Jack feels guilty that he was not there when his daughter needed him.
Susie said that she was not the first that Mr. Harvey and killed. this book gives evidence that he had killed other children by this following details "he knew to remove my body from the field, he knew to watch the weather and to kill during an arc of light from heavy precipitation because he had rob the police out of evidence" (Se-bold 57). Mr. Harvey buried the remaining of Susie's body by dumping it into a sink hole that Susie used to adore. Susie had a bracelet that she wore on the day of her murder and Mr. Harvey throws the bracelet into the lake. While in Heaven Susie wishes for one thing; for Mr. Harvey to be dead and she to be alive but it is impossible. She wanted revenge on Mr. Harvey.
Abigail does not like to be a mother; by the way the book describes her it feels like the kids got in her way of achieving her dreams. Mr. Salmon helps Mr. Harvey to build a tent; he does not realize that he is helping the murderer of his daughter. Afterward, Jack begins to suspect George Harvey is the killer. Abigail and Jack seem to grow distance from each other.
Quote
“You were not there when your daughter needed you” (Se-bold 65).
“There was a window of time during which physical evidence was usually found; that window grew smaller everyday” (Se-bold 69).
Reaction
Jack Salmon feels guilty about the death of Susie because he was not there for her. The quote shows the father is worried and he misses his daughter he is trying to find the person that killed Susie and he think that the killer is Mr. Harvey. This quote came to him while he was lying down on the couch crying about where Susie is? The other quote tells gives us a foreshadowing that the murderer might not be caught. The window getting smaller means that the chance of them finding the murderer might not happen because there is no solid evidence.
Question
1). Why does Susie mother seem too depressed before the death of her daughter?
2). Why doesn’t Lindsey say how she feels about the death of Susie?
3). why does Mr. Harvey like to kill people?
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