In this chapter, Susie explains how she and Holly would watch souls leaving bodies all over Earth. They would see a soul touch a living body on its way to heaven and the living person would never actually see the dead soul, but would know that something had changed around them. Susie touches a girl named Ruth Connors, who went to her school. She says she couldn’t help herself touch the girl, because she died so violently and wasn’t able to calculate her steps. Ruth tells her mom that she had a dream that she saw a running ghost coming toward when she was crossing through the parking lot.Ruth keep it to herself after her mom claims she's crazy, and begin writing dark poetry and looking up everything she can find out about Susie.

Ruth’s obsession for Susie grows to the point that, Susie just wishes she get Ruth to focus on finding her charm bracelet which Susie thinks might help. It is a clue as well, but it Mr. Harvey has it.

In Susie’s Heaven, she now has a gazebo to sit under. She sits there for whole days and nights. She sees Holly and when she shivers, Holly questions why. Susie replies that she can’t help thinking of her mother. She then remembers receiving an Instamatic camera for her eleventh birthday. She had opened the package, thinking that everyone was still asleep, loaded the film and looked for something or someone to photograph. She found her mother sitting on the back porch. She remembered her father calling her mother Ocean Eyes, because, she had always thought, her eyes were so blue. Now she knows he used that name, because her mother’s eyes are bottomless, a realization that frightens her. For inside the oceans of her mother’s eyes, there is loss.

Lovely Bones =D (Book)

In this chapter, Susie gives us an idea of her heaven. At first, she thinks that everyone sees what she sees. She sees the high school rather than the junior high. Then, she could be called Suzanne and all the boys would want her. She would protect all the misfit kids and she would take over in a matter of days. These were her dreams when she was on earth.

After a few days in heaven, she realizes that all the people she sees on the field are all in their own version of heaven and it just fit with hers without really duplicating it. She meets a girl,  Holly,  whom she meets sitting on a swing-set. Their heaven expands as their relationship grows. In the book they both have a fake mother, she is the same age as their mothers, because it is something they both want: their mothers. She tells them she is there to help them. What Susie realizes she desires what she had not known on earth. She wants to be allowed to grow up. She, also, knows she cannot have what she wants most, Mr. Harvey dead and her living. She believes paying attention to life on earth can help her family change their lives and solve her case.

Detective Len Fenerman tells them have found a body part, Susie’s elbow. Susie shows that her parents have a difficult time knowing how to touch each other emotionally, because they had never been broken together before. .

During the search the cops find her copy of To Kill a Mocking Bird the paper she had written on Othello, her notes from Mr. Botte’s class, and a love note from Ray Singh, a boy of Indian descent who calls himself the Moor, after Othello. Ray becomes a suspect, but he has an  alibi.  Later, they find her hat with the bells and when Detective Fenerman returns it to Susie’s family, he tells them that with all the blood, the signs of violence and only one body part, they have to believe that Susie has been killed.
Lindsey, Susie’s sister, handles her grief by hardening herself, not letting herself cry. She even returns to school where she is called into the principal’s office so he can express his sympathy. Susie, from Heaven, begs him to try to make Lindsey laugh. He also tries to soften her grief by telling her that the boys soccer coach wants her to try out for the boy’s soccer team. Lindsey replies by asking him why she would want to play in a field that is only twenty feet from where her sister was murdered. She stays strong and refuses to break before him. Later, at home, she keeps the grief away by doing sit-ups and push-ups until she is tired. Mr. Harvey, meanwhile works on his little doll house.
In heaven, Susie finds herself desiring simple things and she gets them:  They run through the park in her heaven and she has them to give her comfort. Her roommate, Holly, plays the tenor sax for her comfort and the oldest resident of her Heaven, Mrs. Bethel Utemeyer, plays the violin while the dogs howl.

Lovely Bones =D (Book)

In this chapter, Susie Salmon introduces herself and gives the reader all the details of her murder. She was 14 years old and she took a shortcut home from school through a field behind the her school. It was already dark and she was late home. She wasn’t paying much attention and so was surprised when Mr. Harvey, spoke to her.  Susie spoke to him. She was surprised he knew her name, because no one in the neighborhood ever really knew him. Her father had spoken to him once, but they had not often.

Mr. Harvey lures her into a hiding place he’s made in the ground, and Susie unknowingly of her danger goes inside with him. When she becomes nervous and tries to leave, he blocks the entrance with his body. The narrator tells us that she fought as hard as she could, but it just wasn’t enough. At the time, she says this must be the worst thing in the world to have a sweating man on top of you and be trapped inside the earth with no one knowing where you are. She yells at him over and over, but he finally shuts her up by stuffing the hat with bells her mother had made her into her mouth.

The only sound she made after that was the “weak tinkling of bells.” She knows he is going to kill her, especially when he reaches for the knife on the ledge with his razor and shaving cream. He makes her say she loves him, and she does, hoping he might let her go. He rapes her and then stabs her to death. after, her cuts her body to pieces leaving her elbow; her dog finds it.

Lovely Bones (Movie)#2

As Samon's disapperance is noticed and put to be investigated it shows her living in a land where she meets another girl. A girl who was also murdered. As the investigation proceedes her murderer scrambles to hide evidence. Soon narration of Samon is brought back speaking of her spirit that travels. As her bracelet stands as her life, her spirit is brought to drown, but travel to new places. She realizes she has to look forward and move on from earth because she's dead. Anger rages within her family as they deal with their daughter's death. Her body in the movie still hasnt been found. Samons murderer felt safe because no one suspected him. Samon finally moves on after she feels her father is reassured that she is safe in her own little world. Her family soon starts developing Samon's pictures to see if they can find clues; the father starts to put his foot in with helping out the ivestigation by pin pointing neighbors that could possibly be the murderer. Grandma comes to help the family cope with their lose. The movie gives the story a slight humourous side to brighten up the story, but there are always moments when the sadness is brought back. Suspicion of the murderer is when Samon's younger sister runs into him. Samon introduces the other sides of her murderer who would live in moments of his evil. The movie brings out and shows more emotion from the characters. The narrator practically sees her family grow and fall without her. The photos come into great play for a determined father as he now sees pictures of his daughters murderer. There's just a great big connection between the daughter and her father as he comes close to solving the case. In the end the movie brings you to noticed how entied how the family is.

Lovely Bones (Movie)#1

Summary:
Lovely Bones written by Fran Walsh &Directed by Peter Jackson starts off as a narrative show of the main character talking about her past life as it plays but she is talking from her present state which is death. She introduces things in her life that she paid more attention to like the swirl hole and this boy she liked. She had her suspicions of being in danger but her grandmother told her "they say a person who saves one life lives a long time". Through all that Mr.Harvey was watching her. He stops her on her way home to show her his new creation; during the narration we get a glimpse of a man sketching out something that looks like its going to be built underground. Thats were Samon's nightmare occurs. Ruth Conars a female that plays an important tag along role feels the presents of Samons spirit trying to find home. Soon the movie starts to potray off the narrators vision as a spirit seeing her murderer.

Bloom 5 =)

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My last dive into Bloom opens up a bright light to Lauren. She juggles between Dave and Evan like crazy. Lauren wants to spend more time with Evan but she doesn't want to be like her mother "the women who knows how to hurt people". Lauren spends majority of her Dave free days with Evan, but by the end of the day she's having dinner with Dave's family. They see her as the perfect girlfriend and future daughter in law. Lauren can't see what they see. Sooner on Evan catches onto the fact that Lauren hangs out with him at certain times because she doesn't wanna get caught with him. He feels as if he can't really push her but at the same time he doesn't wanna be the other guy. Evan brings out the real Lauren that is locked away when she's with Dave becasue she has to wear the perfect girlfriend image. Mored doors open to Lauren as she figures out that not everyone in her circle has a pefect life. Laurens fathr goes off for a business call and she feels a big emptiness in her house, she just spent more time with Evan. She finally told him how she felt, he understood; they felt the same about each other. Evan puts her in perspective of seeing she's also like her father for messing with two boys. But at the end of the day Evan really put his heart out there with the "L" word. This opened up her eyes to finally know where she wanted to be, with EVANS.

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""I love you," I say as I watch his smile bloom i finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean."

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This ending really shows how far Lauren has come to understanding herself and her mother. The author gives the reader a look at her stages of growing up out of her shell to become the person she's suppose to be. As a reader, I couldnt wait to read how Lauren would about breaking up with Dave. This was a really good book.

Bloom 4:)

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So chapter 16 starts off with lunch with the gang; which consist of her, katie, marcus, dave and dave's followers as lauren would call them. She recaps on how she doesn't belong here unless dave is here. She seems to zone out a lot thinking back to the night with her and evans. She tries to find him later on that day, eventually the meet in the library. When he takes her home they encounter her father coming home early. He doesn't even have one memory of evans at all and that upsets evans. The next day lauren tries to find evan but doesn't get the chance to because katie wants to know about her and dave's lunch together. Gail who has been another supportive character to lauren with knowng all her secrets tries to help lauren get evans attention. At the church event with dave lauren tries her best to keep her mind off of Evan but she can't, she feels so bad about what happened that night. soon enough that night after having pizza and hearing her father's apologies, she ends up at Evans door steps. her wild streak is released again. she feels different with Evans more of herself. Soon enough they spend more time with each other and his mom is around more. Well at least call more often.

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""So if i'd been her daughter, you would have forgotten me?" "Lee Lee-"  "Don't call me that," I say and open the fridge again, stare inside till i hear him walk away."

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This opens up a whole new understanding to how she's startinng to feel about herself and what she should and shouldn't encounter. She has a helping hand "Gail", but Gail can only tell her so much. The author drags you into the book further because you want to be there for Laurens next move. My question is how long is she gonna hide it from Katie; Marcus has a little hint, but he doesn't say much.