Free Choice Reading. Post #3

NAME: Kelsey
DATE: February 3,2010
BOOK: The Lovely Bones
AUTHOR: Alice Seabold
PAGES: 214 - 328
TOTAL PAGES THIS WEEK: 328

QUESTION 1:What was one of your favorite lines (or sentences) in what you read today? Copy it down and tell why you liked it.

RESPONSE 1:
In what I read today one of my favorite sentences is "At the tips of feathers there is air and at their base : blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken glass they could court light ...still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again."
I liked this piece from the book because this is one of the poems that Ruth wrote. This is the only poem that they show in the book and all though I don't understand the full poem I do understand some of it. I really like this poem though and I think it is very interesting. It really shows what Ruth is feeling. I think that "Ruth" in the book is a very talented writer. I think that she really channels her feelings well into this piece of work.


QUESTION 2: Explain how the author creates suspense in this book.

RESPONSE 2:
In this book there are times when there is a lot of suspense. One of these parts was when Lindsey snuck into Mr. Harvey's house. Lindsey breaks open a basement window of Mr. Harvey's house and begins too search for his bedroom. She thinks she has about 45 minutes until she has to get out. She finds Mr. Harvey's bedroom and begins to look for evidence that he committed Suzie's murder. She finds his sketchbook sitting on his beside table. During the time she finds it and walks over to it she doesn't put together the sounds of a car pulling up to the house, a squeak of the cars breaks, and a car door slamming shut, signifying that Mr. Harvey has come home. She begins looking through the sketchbook. She finds a page that can be used as evidence and tears t out of the book. Right then Mr. Harvey hears a board squeak and starts rushing up the stairs. Lindsey opens and jumps out of a window to get away, but Mr. Harvey still sees the soccer jersey with her soccer number on it and knows it is her.
This part made me very anxious and nervous. I started reading really fast at this part because I wanted to know what was going to happen next. Alice uses good descriptions of what is happening and she lengthens out certain scenes to make them more intense and suspenseful.