Lovely Bones 3

Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

Mystery, thriller

174/328

At the beginning of this reading section it was summer, and Lindsey (Susie’s sister) was at the symposium (a camp for smart kids). This chapter focuses on her and what she was doing in camp. At first Lindsey liked that fact that many of the kids didn’t know about Susie so they didn’t refer to Lindsay as the dead girls sister. As camp came to an end more and more people found out about Susie’s death and started linking Lindsay to her. Then someone made a competition “How to commit a perfect murder”. In the next chapter Susie watches her dad get up each morning at 4 AM he gets up and walks Holiday (their dog). He walks by Mr. Harvey’s house each day. He dreams of killing him because of his instinct (which is correct). As the summer comes to an end Mr. Harvey is less and less worried about being caught by the police because they almost stopped questioning him. Susie’s dad is now constantly calling the police about Mr. Harvey and it makes Len Fenerman (police officer) come to their home and to tell him to stop calling. Jack (Susie’s dad) starts to put the pieces together and figures out that that they are stopping the investigation.  That night Jack sees a light in the cornfield (where Susie was murdered) and he thinks its Mr. Harvey and he decides to go follow the light with a baseball bat. But he was wrong it wasn’t Mr. Harvey it was Brian and Clarissa (two kids that attend the same school as Susie). When Mr. Salmon sees Clarissa he runs and attacks her screaming “Susie” then Brian (Clarissa’s boyfriend) attacks Mr. Salmon with the baseball bat. He was now in the hospital and will have to have knee surgery. Then the author describes how the rest of the family found out about what happened. The family wakes up by the sounds of police sirens. They all go out to see what is going on and Abigail (Susie’s mother) asks Lindsey to call Mr. Salmon when she goes to wake him up he isn’t there. They then find out what happened and Abigail rushes to the hospital, Lindsey goes and drops Buckley (youngest child) to the neighbor’s house and she goes to the hospital. Then Len Fenerman comes to the hospital and talks to Abigail. They go out to the balcony and that is when Abigail starts to cheat on her husband. In the final chapter of this section Lindsey starts school again and there are many rumors going around at school. They call her many names not only because of Susie but also because of what happened in the cornfield. I have learned many things in this section one of them is that they are slowly stopping the investigation for Susie’s murderer. That influences many things because as a reader that scares you a little bit because I know that Mr. Salmon won’t let Mr. Harvey just go on with his life like he didn’t do anything. In my opinion it affects the relationship Mr. Salmon has with his with because she doesn’t believe in him she believes the police. I think because of this event Mrs. Salmon did cheat on her husband that night in the hospital.

I am amazed by everything that has happened in this reading section because many of the things that happened no might influence further relationships later on in the book. My recent reading has fulfilled my expectation very much because of the detail the author put into describing the evens that were going on in the book. She made me feel like I went back to the 70’s and am there with the Salmon family. I think in the next section of my reading I will find out what steps Mr. Salmon is going to take to confirm that Mr. Harvey murdered his daughter. I am very satisfied by what I have read so far. This book really keeps me interested and I am eager to continue reading.

I have two main questions about what I have read so far: What is Mr. Salmon going to do to confirm that Mr. Harvey murdered his daughter and how is that going to affect him and his family?

“As he was about to let go for the night, we both saw the same thing: another light. Outside. It looked like a penlight from that distance. One white beam slowly moving out across the lawns and toward the junior high.” (Seabold 136)

This passage reveals what Mr. Salmon saw the night he went after Mr. Harvey (who wasn’t there). This passage intrigues the reader very much because as you are reading it you just get this feeling that he shouldn’t go there you know that something bad is going to happen. But on the other side you want him to go and see Mr. Harvey there so he can tell the police and send Mr. Harvey do jail.