Free Choice Reading

For Free choice reading, I chose The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I chose this book because it seemed interesting, and in 7th grade, I was considering reading it, but never did. I also chose to read this book because the movie was coming out and I wanted to see it, and I told myself I was going to read the book first.

Weekly Reading Response

Name: Sierra Stratton Date: 1-30-10

Book: The Lovely Bones

Author: Alice Sebold Pages 1-78

Total Pages This Week: 78

Question 1: What does this book make you wonder about? Why?

Response 1:

This book makes me wonder about heaven. It makes me wonder about heaven because in The Lovely Bones, it talks about a girl going to heaven, and she is saying what it's like. She said that everyones heaven is different, but you sometimes share certain parts of your heaven with other people.

What I really wonder is if thats true, even if it sounds weird, I do wonder if everyone has their own heavens, or even what heaven is like. This book also makes me wonder about how people can live with themselves after murdering a child. The man in this book that killed the girl (Susie) was pleased with himself after murdering her.

Question 2: What other character beside the main character is really important to the story? How and why?

Response 2:

One character in this book that is important (besides the main character) is Mr. Harvey. Mr. Harvey is very important because he was the murderer in the book, and he holds a lot of information.

He is also very smart, in a horrible way. He had murdered many people, Susie could tell. He planned out exactly when to kill her, right before it rained, so it would wash away most of the evidence. Also to get rid of the evidence, he put her in a bag, then put the bag in the safe, then put the safe in a sinkhole.