Alyssa’s Reviews > The Lovely Bones > Status Update

---Susie is still with them daily, watching them from her Heaven. Susie has been starting to reveal herself more and more to her family, and her dad swears that when he woke up he saw her. This was the most that Susie had exposed herself, so much that her dad could actually see her faintly. I think that Susie is longing to live again, to experience new things because she keeps remembering things from her life.

It's been eight years since Susie was murdered, and finally, they found something of Susie's. They found her charm bracelet. Where I left off, Len had just given the bracelet to her parents, her dad being in the hospital of a heart attack. Before Len had come when the dad had been in the hospital, when they called Abigail the mom, they told her that he was also asking for Susie. I think the dad is realizing that---

Susie's mom Abigal, has been tensed up whenever she was around her family,but when Len, the investigator for Susie's murder comes around, she loosens up and becomes more joyful.In the part where I left off,Abigal cheats on her husband with Len while they are at the hospital.The dad got hurt because he thought that a girl was Mr.Harvey, then her boyfriend came and whacked him with a baseball bat, so he's hospitalized.

In the part that I read, Buckley, Susie's little brother told his friend Nate that he saw Susie. She didn't think that she had tried to show herself to him, but she thinks that there might be a way that he could see her. When she woke up that day in her heaven, she saw a whole bunch of what look like ladies next door but then they turned into crows. I think that this might have something to do with Buckley's visions

This book has a great way that it was written, and it helps me apply nearly everything it says to my life as well as the characters in this book. At this point, I have nothing against this books. It gives you little key words to help you predict what's going to happen next, like yesterday when I read about the list of the dead that was started. This was a obvious comment, but there are more in-depth ones.

There's always a light in the dark; the characters are starting to realize this.This is something that we need to realize also,even when we're going through some really hard times, we need to focus on the good things. George Harvey(Susie's murderer)didn't do this which brought him to be a murderer.Susie's dad has Buckley which helps him be happy, other people in this book haven't really found their happy place yet---

This book brings me back to reality by realizing that the world isn't perfect; there are a lot of evil people here. It makes me more aware of my surroundings, because like it was for Susie, you never know when someone's going to come or attack you. Although there are some bad things in the world, there will always be good things to. For Susie's dad, it's making Buckley happy since one of his other children are gone.

He might have felt lost and confused after losing his mother, drawing him to be murderous towards other people, wanting them to suffer as much as he had. His dad Might ave influenced him in some of his actions, by first ditching his wife, Mr.Harvey's mom. If I went through something as terrible as this, I'm not sure, but I would probably become a meaner person also, just not a serial killer like George Harvey.

On this page, I found out a little bit about Mr.Harvey's past. When he was a kid, he, his dad and his mom were all driving.The mom and the dad got into a fight, and the dad forced her out of the car. He drove off and said"She's one now son, she won't be coming back"I think that this is when he started to become an evil person because of the lose he suffered.I think that he wanted to make others suffer just as he did-