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.