Free Choice Reading. Post #2

NAME: Kelsey DATE: February 2,2010
BOOK: The Lovely Bones
AUTHOR: Alice Seabold
PAGES: 84 - 214
TOTAL PAGES THIS WEEK: 328

QUESTION 1: Which character would you like to be like? In what way? Why?

RESPONSE 1:
If I could be like a character in this book I would choose to be like Lindsey. Lindsey is a very strong person both physically and mentally. I think that out of all her family members besides Buckley she handles Suzie's disappearance the best. Lindsey acts very strong. She doesn't let Suzie's death effect her as much as the others do. She pretends like it didn't happen sometimes and then others she just tells herself that everything is going to be all right.
Another character that I like in this book and would want to be like is Ruth in the sense that she is very artistic and she is a very good poet. I like this about her a lot. I think this gives her character something different that none of the other characters have. Ruth is a very important character in this book because of how she felt Suzie touch her when Suzie's spirit left the earth. I like the way Ruth takes this experience and other things that she begins to feel about it and writes them down in the form of a poem. I really like this about her.

QUESTION 2: What other character(s) beside the main character is really important to the story? How and why?

RESPONSE 2:
I think that one of the most important characters in this book besides Suzie is Franny. All though Franny isn't mentioned much she plays a big role in Suzie's heaven. Franny is the person that gives Suzie the map to the pear tree where she sees the other girls that Mr. Harvey has killed. This is a good experience for Suzie it shows her that she isn't the only one that has been killed. I like this part in the book a lot and I like Franny's character. She reminds me of a nanny or a caretaker of the girls in heaven which is basically what she is.
I also think that Ruth is a very important characters in this book. Ruth is pretty much Suzie's main connection to earth. Ruth even though she didn't really know Suzie took great interest in her death after Suzie's spirit touched Ruth when going to heaven. Ruth writes poems about Suzie's death and thinks about it a lot. She also becomes good friends with Suzie's lover Ray. I think this is important because they become really good friends and Ray begins to be able to talk about what happened to Suzie with Ruth. Ruth writes down anything she notices about places where people could have been murdered or raped, and different scenarios she sees play through her head about what happened at these places inside of a journal she has. This journal also holds the poems about Suzie.