Snapshots

     

      In this chapter Susie remembers taking snapshots with her first camera. Her pictures made her feel good about herself. Abigail decides to leave her family and live in her father’s cabin in New Hampshire. Grandma Lynn calls Jack and offers to stay and help with the family. Jack will only allow her if she stops drinking as much. She promises that she won’t drink until five in the afternoon. Another year passes and Lindsey and Samuel have become much closer. Mr. Harvey moved and had been gone for a year, and they were looking for him. Lindsey meets with Detective Fenerman to ask if there are any leads in Susie’s crime, but when Lindsey enters the station she sees a red cloth on his desk. It is a red scarf that belonged to her mother. When Fenerman comes around the corner, Lindsey realizes that Abigail was having an affair with Fenerman.

 

Chapter Sixteen

      

     Chapter sixteen talks about the first anniversary of Susie’s death. Ray’s mother Ruana is having problems with her husband because he is too devoted to his work and doesn’t spend a lot of time with his family. Ruth and Ray become closer and people begin to think their dating.  Ruth has candles and wants to have a vigil for Susie at the cornfield. Many people came and left flowers for Susie. Later lots of people start showing up. As the sun goes down, the cornfield fills with people holding candles. Lindsey shows her mom, but she doesn’t seem interested in the memorial. Lindsey asks her if she plans on leaving them. Lying, she says she won't leave them. She holds Lindsey and then tells her to go tell Jack about the vigil. Buckley, Lindsey, and Jack go across to the neighborhood and join the crowd.

 

Anniversary of Susie’s Death

    

            In chapter thirteen Lindsey returns back to school and Buckley starts kindergarten.  There are many people at Lindsey’s that whisper about her father’s incident. Jack has knee replacement and is learning how to walk again. He can’t go to work so he spends much time at home. He marks December 2 as the anniversary of Susie’s death and the day he will go back to work. In chapter fourteen Lindsey is at soccer practice and she sees Mr. Harvey leave his house. She fakes an injury so she can sneak in his house and look for anything suspicious. She finds the sketchbook and hears a car. She finds the page Susie wants her to find. It's called "Stolfutz Cornfield" and it has a sketch of the underground hole, the site of Susie's death. She rips it out while Mr. Harvey has a snack in his kitchen. Harvey hears a noise and runs up the stairs. Lindsey opens a window and jumps out, just in time. He watches her running away, unharmed.

 

A Terrible Mistake

 

     Susie’s Dad wakes up at about four in the morning to walk Holiday every day. When he walks past Mr. Harvey’s house he gets upset because there is no progress in Susie’s case and he has dreams of killing Mr. Harvey. One Day in August Jack sees a light from the cornfield and thinks its Mr. Harvey. It was Just Clarissa waiting for her boyfriend Brian in. Jack comes out with a baseball bat but when he sees Clarissa he thinks she’s Susie at first. When Brian sees this he attacks Jack with his own bat. In chapter twelve jack is in the hospital and he has to have knee surgery. Soon Abigail finds out and catches a ride to the hospital. She is worried about her husband while he is in surgery

 

Grandma Lynn and Lindey and Ruth's Meeting

                  

         In chapter nine I meet Grandma Lynn, Susie’s grandmother. She decides to live with the Salmons. Susie's mother Abigail tells her that she does not have to, but Grandma Lynn insists. Grandma Lynn lightens the mood in the story with her humor.  She is worried about Jack and Abigail's state of mind after Susie dies. Grandma Lynn asks Abigail if Jack (Susie’s parents) still thinks "that man" killed Susie (page 99). Lindsey overhears the conversation. Grandma Lynn teaches Lindsey how to put on makeup. Lindsey begins to see herself as growing up, and she stares at the image in the mirror with her makeup applied and her eyelashes longer. In chapter ten takes a field to Pennsylvania's Gifted Symposium with her classmates. Her classmates aren’t sure how to treat her.  Ruth is also at the symposium so she introduces herself to Lindsay, but she rejects her.  Lindsey starts dating a boy named Samuel.  At night, Ruth sneaks into Lindsey's dorm and talk to her, and then Ruth crawls into bed with Lindsey. They talk about Susie and their dreams and nightmares about her. Ruth asks Lindsey if she misses her sister, and Lindsey responds, "More than anyone will ever know" (page 121).

Susie Saves Buckley and Learns More about Mr. Harvey

         

In chapter seven Buckley, his friend Nate, and the family dog Holiday go up the stairs in his house. Buckley tells Nate that he can see Susie and that Susie talks to him and kisses his cheek sometimes. Buckley and Nate go into Susie’s room and find her stash of private stuff. He finds a bloody twig that she saved two years before she died. Susie was watching and starts to have a flashback from when she was babysitting Buckley. He gets a twig stuck in his throat and starts chocking. She grabbed her dad’s car keys and drove him to the hospital, saving his life. She saved the twig as a memory. In chapter eight Susie learns more about Mr. Harvey. He sees him have dreams about his rough childhood

Coping with Death

        

In chapter five Susie can feel how guilty her father is because he wasn’t there to protect her. He tries to comfort Lindsey but she seems less affected by her death. Jack tells Fenerman about his suspicions of Mr. Harvey, but when Fenerman goes to see Harvey he finds him odd, but not suspicious. In chapter six Susie has a flashback about her being late for school and sneaking out to the back of the stage. She sees the boy likes her, Ray Singh. He tells Susie that she is beautiful and he almost kisses her until they hear a teacher yelling at Ruth Connors. The teacher didn’t like drawing she had done of a model showing her breasts. Susie climbs down from the Scaffold and comforts Ruth and they become friends. After Susie’s death, Ruth spend a lot of time in the cornfield she was killed at, in the early mornings.

Susie touches Ruth and Heartless Mr. Harvey

          In chapter three Susie comes back to earth and accidently touches a girl named Ruth Connors who was a friend from school. After that Ruth has a dream about it and tells her mother, but her mother thinks it is silly. One day Susie watches her dad look at his collection of ships I bottles. It makes him think of Susie because she uses to help him with most of them. He mashes them up with a baseball bat. He sees Susie’s reflection in the broken glass. This causes him to have a breakdown and Susie’s little brother Buckley who was four year old finds him and comforts him. Chapter four talk’s about how Mr. Harvey gets rid of Susie’s body parts. He puts them in a bag, Puts them in safe, and he pays a man to put the Safe in a local sinkhole. While in heaven Susie finds out that Mr. Harvey has killed many women and girls before her. Soon Susie’s father Jack becomes suspicious of Mr. Harvey.

Susie In Heaven

          

In chapter two after Susie dies she goes to heaven. She thinks that everyone in heaven is surrounded by high schools, but she soon realizes that they all have their own personal heavens. On her fourth day in heaven Susie meet a girl named Holly and they became roommates. Neither of them likes heaven but they realize that they’ve been given their simplest dreams. Susie also meets a Woman named Franny who becomes Susie’s intake counselor and is like a mother figure because Susie missies her mother. Susie’s parents get a call from Detective Len Fenerman saying that they found susie’s elbow. Mr. Salmon has to tell his other daughter Lindsey who was thirteen about the elbow and she throws up. Susie watches with from heaven with frustration as Mr. Harvey goes on with his life without any guilt or remorse. Even though she was angry she finds comfort in watching the family dog, Holiday. On the 15th, Fenerman tells the Salmon's that they think Susie's dead. The lab results are in. The dirt from the cornfield is full of blood. Susie's mom doesn't believe she's dead until Fenerman shows her Susie's jingly pompom hat, and tells her it was used to gag Susie. Meanwhile Susie fills her heaven with dogs for comfort.

A Horrible Death

           In chapter one of” The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold I meet the main character and narrator Susie Salmon. She was fourteen when she was murdered on December 6, 1973. She was murdered by her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. It was snowing and Susie takes a shortcut, through a cornfield to get home after school. She gets a little scared when she sees Mr. Harvey there in the dark. He makes small talk with her, and she tells him she has to go home but he asks to show her this really cool hiding place that he built under ground.

            Susie is a really curious girl, very interested in science and engineering and she’s never been an any real danger so she doesn’t know enough to be afraid. When she goes down there with him he starts to ask her personal questions like: Does she have a boyfriend? Is she still a virgin? She starts to feel uncomfortable but when she tries to leave he says that she can never leave and there he rapes and kills her. If I were Susie I wouldn’t have walked through the corn field at night at night by myself because I find them scary and I wouldn’t have went with Mr. Harvey because she didn’t know him very well

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