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.
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