Free Choice Reading. Post #1

NAME: Kelsey DATE: February 2,2010
BOOK: The Lovely Bones
AUTHOR: Alice Seabold
PAGES: 1 - 84
TOTAL PAGES THIS WEEK: 328

QUESTION 1: What does this book make you wonder about? Why?

RESPONSE 1:
There are a lot of things this book makes me wonder about. One of the main things this book has made me wonder about is our world and how things like rape and murder can happen to anyone. This book has really come o make me realize that things like this do happen everyday. Young girls are being beaten, hurt, and that's sad to know. This book has made me wonder how many people might have had happen to them what happened to Suzie. As the family of a victim of that, that would be very hard to cope with.
Another thing this book has made me wonder about is the police and investigations. Through out this portion of the book the police are starting to begin their investigation and search for answers on what might have happened to Suzie. They don't find any evidence that could pinpoint to one person saying that they murdered Suzie. This makes me wonder about our own police force. Are there cases left hanging like this? Can the police and detectives sometimes not find anything? This portion of the book is just starting the investigation. When I read this portion I remember wanting to know what the police were going to find if they found anything, and how the case would end up.


QUESTION 2: What do you think about a particular character's actions? Was he/she right or wrong to do that?

RESPONSE 2:
At the very beginning of this book, in the first chapter it describes Suzie's rape and murder. The murderer and rapist is Mr.Harvey. Obviously I along with any other that will or have read this book think this is very wrong. Mr. Harvey was wrong to do this but without this beginning there would be no story. In this first chapter it talks about how Mr. Harvey gets Suzie into the hole in the cornfield with him. I think that Mr. Harvey planned this very well for the benefit of himself. I'm not saying that I think what he did was right but that I do think he planned the way he was going to rape and murder her well. He definitely had a good plan that worked. I think that because the police don't find anything but Suzie's elbow, hat, and book shows that he did a good job covering up his tracks. I think his actions were good for himself but from the readers point of view what he did was horrible and I hate how Suzie is killed in the end of the chapter.