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?
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