Thursday, April 28, 2011

Chapters 4-6

The Lovely Bones By Alice Sebold Pages 49-72

Mr. Harvey takes Susie's body into his garage where he cuts her up. Later, when he tries to sell the house he tells people that her blood stains on the floor are oil stains. He puts her body in a safe and throws it into a sinkhole in the neighborhood. The only thing he keeps of her's is her charm bracelet. Even that, though, he later throws into an area that they plan to make into a lake. But he takes of her Pennsylvania charm because it's his favorite. Susie's Dad, Jack, sees Mr. Harvey one day building a tent and he offers to help him. Susie tries to get his attention and give him signs but he doesn't sense her until after he is done building the tent. He asks Mr. Harvey if he knows anything but he is quickly shut down and Harvey tells him and can't help him. Since he is now suspicious of Mr. Harvey, Jack goes to Len, the detective, and asks him to question him. But when Len asks Mr. Harvey about the tent he explains that it is a memorial for his dead wife Leah. When Len tells Jack this it only furthers his suspicion because he remembers that his late wife's name was Sophie. After this he starts a list of the dead.
A boy that Lindsey has a crush on, Samuel, gives her a necklace with half a hear on it for a Christmas gift and he wears the other half. Ruth and Ray are walking through the cornfield where Susie was killed one day and they are talking about how they know Susie went to heaven.

My mom ruined this part of the book for me because she was talking about it and thought I had already reached this part. So I knew about the blood stains and the sinkhole, but I didn't know about the tent. I thought that was really big part of the book so far. It gives Jack a reason to suspect him which I hope helps him figure out that Mr. Harvey did kill Susie. This book is really good so far, I'm curious to see how well the movie goes along with it.

The royal wedding is tomorrow so I have to get in bed early so I can watch it! Goodnight!

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