Lovely Bones..again!

In the last post, Mr. Salmon leaves off at the Singh's claiming Ray to be a suspect, however, clearly this was not the case. During the summer though, Lindsey and Susie's school brings their honor students to a camp with other smart kids from other schools. Through the three week time period, each student is there to learn and become adventurous--with each other. Lindsey and her boyfriend, Samuel choose to explore the sexual aspects of being in a relationship. Though very young at 14, this does not stop them. At first, Lindsey showed to be very shy towards him because of the loss of her sister, however, at camp, she was free of the drama at her home and wanted to rebel! No surprise, they have sex, and they cannot get off each other through the whole duration of camp. It just comes to show that stepping out of a depressed environment can change your whole perspective on the world because you haven't seen it. All you would want to do is be free and do whatever you want because you can--nobody would worry about you--especially in the Salmon house. At the last week of camp, they have a project to come up with, a problem to fix, so to speak. Lindsey, attending this camp for the second time, thought it would be the mouse trap car again. Unfortunately, it was not--the scenario was, "Plan a perfect murder".

Lovely Bones

Well, I have not posted in a very long time. Anyway, I have still been reading Lovely Bones, hopefully to finish it this coming week. Where I last left off, Mr. Salmon had just left Mr. Harvey's house with suspicion that he could possibly be the creepy murderer of Susie Salmon. Even though the Salmon's cannot find Susie's body, they still have a memorial service for her at a funeral home where all of her friends and family come to mourn and show support. Lindsey is finally being hit with the loss of her sister, and I always seem to find her in Susie's room looking at old pictures, laying on her bed etc. However, Mrs. Salmon's mother shows up--who has not been very "close" to the family" and suggests that Lindsey needs a makeover and a pretty outfit for the service. So, Mrs. Salmon puts Lindsey's make up on, and picked out a dress from Susie's closet. At the end of the night, Lindsey feels pretty about herself and ends up sleeping with her full make up on, laying back on the mattress the whole night in Susie's bed, in Susie's dress. The next morning, was the service; Ruth was there, however, Ray was not there because he could not stand the grief. Creepily, Mr. Harvey stood in the graveyard feeling anxious to whoever who could possibly find out about his crime. Next, since Mr. Salmon noticed that Ray was not there, he went over to his house to see how he was doing as well as claim him as a suspect to Susie's murder. Ray was not there the time Mr. Salmon was at his house, however, Mrs. Singh thought this to be absurd and told Mr. Salmon that Ray adored Susie and would never do anything like that to her; as obsessive as he was..