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.