Sunday, February 21, 2010
Lovely Bones Movie
The movie was great. I really enjoyed watching it. Still, reading the book clarifies a lot of movie scences that weren't completely clear. The part when Suzie thought she got away, I realized that that was the part when Mr.Harvey raped and killed her. The movie also left out some details from the book like Grandma Lynn dying or the affair between Abigail and Len. The movie also provided a visual of the book's events so i would have to imagine them. The way I pictured the details of the book was somewhat similar to what happened. The part I liked the most, in both the book and movie, was when Suzie came back to earth for a while. I was happy that her and her crush Ray could be together, even though it didn't last a very long time. I would recommend reading the book first so the movie can be understood fully.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Chapter 20-23 & Bones
Summary
The detective tells Jack and Abigail that they found Susie's bracelet and they connected her murder with other murders. Mr.Harvey drives by the Salmon house and watches Lindsey, but an officier tells him to move along. Ruth sees him driving towards the sinkhole and sees blood and his victims in his car. Susie takes over Ruth's body. Her and Ray become intimate until Susie finally goes away. Before she leaves, she tells Ray to read Ruth's diary and he finds out that Ruth knows the time and place of deaths of the dead. Grandma Lynn dies, Samuel and Lindsey get married, Ruth contines to document the dead, and Ray becomes a doctor. Susie drops an iscle on Mr.Harvey after he tried his tricks on another teenage girl at a diner. He was so caught off guard that he fell down a ravine.
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"'This little girl's grown up by now'...Almost. Not quite" (Sebold 372)
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The people who found Susie's bracelet automatically believe that it belonged to a young girl who has grown up. Little do they know, she is still as young as before. She is still no where near being grown up still.
The detective tells Jack and Abigail that they found Susie's bracelet and they connected her murder with other murders. Mr.Harvey drives by the Salmon house and watches Lindsey, but an officier tells him to move along. Ruth sees him driving towards the sinkhole and sees blood and his victims in his car. Susie takes over Ruth's body. Her and Ray become intimate until Susie finally goes away. Before she leaves, she tells Ray to read Ruth's diary and he finds out that Ruth knows the time and place of deaths of the dead. Grandma Lynn dies, Samuel and Lindsey get married, Ruth contines to document the dead, and Ray becomes a doctor. Susie drops an iscle on Mr.Harvey after he tried his tricks on another teenage girl at a diner. He was so caught off guard that he fell down a ravine.
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"'This little girl's grown up by now'...Almost. Not quite" (Sebold 372)
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The people who found Susie's bracelet automatically believe that it belonged to a young girl who has grown up. Little do they know, she is still as young as before. She is still no where near being grown up still.
Chapter 15-19
Summary
All of Susie's freinds come together to make a mini funeral that gets a lot of the neighborhood involved. Mr.Harvey leaves and people begin to gossip about him killing Susie. Later, Samuel proposes to Lindsey on their way back from their college graduation. Since Ruth can see aand writes poems about the dead and has beccome a celbrity in heaven. Buckley, Susie's youngest brother, gets into a fight with Jack causing him to have a heart attack. Buckley asks Susie to save him. Abigail comes back when she hears about Jack's heart attack. Jack wakes up seeing her and is happy to see her. Buckley openly hostile to his mother causing her to cry.
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"He saw my shape and face, which had not changed....It was only a moment, and then I was gone" (Sebold 278)
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Buckley sees Susie a lot throughout the story. He didn't know her as well as Lindsey did, but he somehow had a stronger connection to him after her death.
All of Susie's freinds come together to make a mini funeral that gets a lot of the neighborhood involved. Mr.Harvey leaves and people begin to gossip about him killing Susie. Later, Samuel proposes to Lindsey on their way back from their college graduation. Since Ruth can see aand writes poems about the dead and has beccome a celbrity in heaven. Buckley, Susie's youngest brother, gets into a fight with Jack causing him to have a heart attack. Buckley asks Susie to save him. Abigail comes back when she hears about Jack's heart attack. Jack wakes up seeing her and is happy to see her. Buckley openly hostile to his mother causing her to cry.
Quote
"He saw my shape and face, which had not changed....It was only a moment, and then I was gone" (Sebold 278)
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Buckley sees Susie a lot throughout the story. He didn't know her as well as Lindsey did, but he somehow had a stronger connection to him after her death.
Chapter 9-14
Summary
Grandma Lynn brings life back to the family and the they go to Susie's funeral. Lindsey goes to a camp for gifted children and that's where she meets Ruth and Samuel. Lindsey and Jack begin watching Mr.Harvey. One night, Jack follows Susie's best friend into the cornfield because he thinks it's Mr.Harvey. He attacks her with a bat but her boyfriend saves her, resulting in Jack's trip to the hospital. Lindsey breaks into Mr.Harvey's house and finds some evidence about him killing Susie. She barely makes it out the house and he sees her running away from the house.
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"Mr.Harvey mounted the stairs two at a time, and my sister smashed out the screen, scrambling onto the porch roof and rolling down it as he gained the upstairs hall and came barreling toward her" (Sebold 208)
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This really caused my heart to beat. I didn't know if he was going to catch her or not. Luckily she got out with the evidence she needed to prove that Mr.Harvey killed Susie.
Grandma Lynn brings life back to the family and the they go to Susie's funeral. Lindsey goes to a camp for gifted children and that's where she meets Ruth and Samuel. Lindsey and Jack begin watching Mr.Harvey. One night, Jack follows Susie's best friend into the cornfield because he thinks it's Mr.Harvey. He attacks her with a bat but her boyfriend saves her, resulting in Jack's trip to the hospital. Lindsey breaks into Mr.Harvey's house and finds some evidence about him killing Susie. She barely makes it out the house and he sees her running away from the house.
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"Mr.Harvey mounted the stairs two at a time, and my sister smashed out the screen, scrambling onto the porch roof and rolling down it as he gained the upstairs hall and came barreling toward her" (Sebold 208)
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This really caused my heart to beat. I didn't know if he was going to catch her or not. Luckily she got out with the evidence she needed to prove that Mr.Harvey killed Susie.
Chapter 1-8
Summary
Susie Salmon is telling the story from heaven. She watches over her family Ray (her crush), Ruth (the last person to touch Susie's soul before she went to heaven), the detectives, and her killer Mr.Harvey. After she was raped and killed, she's been watching her family suffer and seeing Mr.Harvey go on with no fingers pointed his way. Abigail, Susie's mother abandons the family when she can't take the pain of her daughter's death so her mother, grandma Lynn moved in. Lidnsey turned to exercising to deal with her pain. Susie begins to help her father and give him clues towards Mr.Harvey. He then tells Lindsey, Susie's little sister who he thinks it is, but there is no proof. Lindsey memorizes his schedule and waits for a day to strike.
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"The guilt on him, the hand og God pressing down on him, saying, You were not there when your daughter needed you" (Sebold 65).
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I really started to feel sorry for Susie's dad because he was feeling guilty for something that was no where near his fault. He starts trying so hard to solve her murder that he even damages his marriage, just because of his guilt.
Susie Salmon is telling the story from heaven. She watches over her family Ray (her crush), Ruth (the last person to touch Susie's soul before she went to heaven), the detectives, and her killer Mr.Harvey. After she was raped and killed, she's been watching her family suffer and seeing Mr.Harvey go on with no fingers pointed his way. Abigail, Susie's mother abandons the family when she can't take the pain of her daughter's death so her mother, grandma Lynn moved in. Lidnsey turned to exercising to deal with her pain. Susie begins to help her father and give him clues towards Mr.Harvey. He then tells Lindsey, Susie's little sister who he thinks it is, but there is no proof. Lindsey memorizes his schedule and waits for a day to strike.
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"The guilt on him, the hand og God pressing down on him, saying, You were not there when your daughter needed you" (Sebold 65).
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I really started to feel sorry for Susie's dad because he was feeling guilty for something that was no where near his fault. He starts trying so hard to solve her murder that he even damages his marriage, just because of his guilt.
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