Lovely Bones Chapter Questions

Mr. Harvey lures Susie into the hole or hiding place underground with his words.

Franny is Susie's intake counselor and tells Susie that she must know what she desires in heaven to make it happen.

In Holly's place, Susie saw swing sets which are unusual for high school to have.

<p>Susie decides to desire like what Franny says to do, as well as watch over her family.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Susie describes that the soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue its way to Heaven.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first time Susie broke through was an accident on December 23, 1973. She revealed herself in the glass of the ship bottle her dad broke.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Susie compares herself to the dogs of Erensong because they hunted without stopping.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Susie's father feels suspicious as he helps build the tent and thinks Mr. Harvey knows something about Susie.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tent is for and to honor Mr. Harvey's wife, Leah.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Using a Monopoly board, Susie is the shoe, and when she is taken from the board, she couldn't play anymore.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lindsey left the gloves in the farthest boundary of the soccer and corn field for Susie, which were found and kept by Ruth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He shares his appreciation for Ray, and the knowledge of the killer, George Harvey.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Imaginary friends are thought to be the ghosts of dead strangers or loved ones.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Susie believes it was possible to rescue after Buckley ate a stick, but Holly did not.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Harvey's mother is an innocent person that left him when he was young.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>We learn about his character development and backstory, also parts of him others don't know from flashbacks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The bag o' magic is Grandmother Lynn's makeup bag and it gave a rest from the grief of Susie's death.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lindsey catches a glimpse of Mr. Harvey and feels like she remembers him and passed out.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>At the statewide gifted symposium camp with Sam, Ruth, and Lindsey.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Susie always chooses the icicle; the weapon melts away.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Susie's father decided to trust his instinct. He just knew it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That they are stopping the investigation on Mr. Harvey, and Susie's dad should too.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The living can accept their death and move on.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Susie describes the leaving soul like fireflies while Franny describes them as snowflakes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because of building Mr. Harvey's tent, his movements, the dog barking, and his wife's names changing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She reveals that her husband had an affair and is convinced that Abigail is having one with Len too.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lindsey is doing exactly what Mr. Harvey is doing to everyone else, playing soccer and casing his house.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All the other girl victims Mr. Harvey had killed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author intends for Mr. Harvey to be perceived as human, not a monster.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He picked up his belongings and momentos from victims, hid them, and called the police that his house had been broken into and played victim.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>This day is a year to the day after Susie's death. Significant because readers can start seeing people accepting Susie's death at the ceremony.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jack realizes Susie had been loved by many people he didn't even recognize.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A family with five girls moved in; Jack is traumatized by their laughter because he can't hear it from his girl anymore.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Len seals up photos of unsolved cases, which symbolize his acceptance of their deaths.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jack knows that Susie is in a perfect world now.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Susie is the watcher. A watcher is a soul in the world of the living that is not involved but watches them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Whenever Ruth stops at a spot, she will know where a woman or girl was killed and sees it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>His grief over Lindsey; he hasn't let it go yet.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because she never wanted Susie or to be a mother in the first place.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Abigail admits that she had lied to Lindsey and had an affair with Len.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That she is back where Susie was killed and may see her killer again. She is more observant, wary, and nervous in Pennsylvania.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>For Abigail to live in the face of it, by giving Susie a flower.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jack tells Abigail what he needed to say and what Abigail needed to hear him say.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ruth wonders if Susie's body was dumped in the sinkhole, and when Mr. Harvey passed by Ruth, she blacked out and Susie fell to the earth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Navigating the unknown is falling in love. It's important this time because she is fulfilling her duty of letting go of her death in Ruth's body.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She uses the metaphor of traveling on a train going backward to describe how it feels on her journey to leave Earth again.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She realizes she had been waiting for all her family to come home to each other and not her.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Suise sees her loved ones and their stories as the connections, sometimes tenuous, sometimes at great cost, that happened after her death.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ones that are dead are not truly leaving the ones on Earth; they are still watching over unless they really want to leave you.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mr. Harvey dies after being hit by a falling icicle, which symbolizes the death he inflicted on the girls he killed.</p> Signup and view all the answers