Novel Partners Post # 3

NAME: Fiona Jackson        DATE: February 16, 2011 TITLE: The Lovely Bones TIME: 3 hours AUTHOR: Alice Sebold      PAGES: 161 - 280 TOTAL PAGES THIS WEEK: 119

What I read today made me feel extremely happy. Or at least some of what I read. What made me so happy was when Samuel proposed to Lindsey. I think that it is incredible that their relationship withstood every thing that this family has been through. But know that I think about it, it may have even made them a stronger couple. Nothing could ever happen to them that could be worse than something that they have already been forced to face and deal with. Susie's death may have even brought them together the first time back when they were 13. He approached her after it happened. That showed her that he honestly truly cared about her.  I am so glad that Lindsey had someone to go to when no one else was there. Samuel is her soul mate and he came to her when she most needed him. That is why when he proposed to her it filled me with joy. But on a different subject, what I read today also made me extremely sad. The book was talking about Buckley a lot and about how Susie's death and his mother leaving has affected him. He sounds like it has messed him up a lot. I was basically in tears when he was talking about how he has taught himself to make his heart go from heart to stone so that he can't get hurt anymore. That was when he was 4 years old. That is too early for a child to have to think like that. It broke my heart.  Another person who is really important to the story other than the main character is Susie's mother Abigail.  Throughout the story a big part of the plot has been her struggle to cope with Susie's death. She makes some interesting decisions, like cheating on her husband, but the worst thing is that she get's up and leaves. It wasn't very clear if she explained why she felt she needed to do this to her husband and children or not, but one day she decided to drive to California. I don't really understand this. Why does losing your other two children make losing your first one better? I don't get why she thought that that would help. How could she do that to her family? Those kids had enough to deal with. They didn't need to lose their mother too. That is just horrible. And you can tell that it has screwed Buckley up a lot. He lost his mother when he was 4 years old. And he doesn't even really have the comfort of having her die. She chose to leave him. She had a choice. And she didn't choose him and Lindsey. That's the worst part. But I have a feeling that she may come back.  A couple things in this book upset me clearly. But the worst thing is that Mr. Harvey hasn't been caught. He killed so many people and no one knows it's him. It makes me so mad. He deserves to be caught. He needs to be caught. Well, at least they have figured out that Susie's dad was right all along and that it was Mr. Harvey. But then he just disappears. It's incredibly frustrating. I really hope that he get's caught. He has brutally murdered like 10 people. One girl was 5 years old! It makes me sick! I can not understand how he lives with himself. He went to Susie's funeral. I would not be able to deal with that.  It's so wrong. He must have something seriously wrong with him. I'm sure he does. He must have some sort of a mental disorder. I mean come on, he kills the neighborhood animals to keep himself from killing the neighborhood kids. He needs help. I wish that he could get some.