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?
since the story is from Susie's POV, there is a huge amount of dramatic irony that drives the story.
ReplyDeleteas the characters must come to peace with Susie's death, so we must also feel this even with an unclear picture of Mr. Harvey's death