Weekly Reading Response

NAME: Sierra Stratton DATE: 2-11-10

BOOK: The Lovely Bones

AUTHOR: Alice Sebold PAGES: 188-269

TOTAL PAGES THIS WEEK: 81

Question 1: Which character would you like (or not like) to be your friend? Why?

Response 1: In The Lovely Bones, I would like to be friends with Lindsey Salmon. I would like to be friends with Lindsey because she is very athletic and I like being athletic. I would also like to be friends with her because she went through a lot when her sister was murdered and I would like to have helped her through that. she was also very sweet in the book, but she was also rebellious. that made her unique, and I like hanging out with unique people; people who do their own thing and don't follow other people's paths.

Question 2: What has surprised you in the book? Why?

Response 2: The thing that surprised me the most in this book was how fast in the end everyone grew up. In almost one chapter all of the characters were grown up and they each had their own stories. I got kind of lost in a part of the book because almost out of nowhere Lindsay and her boyfriend were graduating college, and Susie's old friends were all on their own. So those parts were very surprising.

Weekly Reading Response

Weekly Reading Response

NAME: Sierra Stratton DATE: 2-11-10

BOOK: The Lovely Bones

AUTHOR: Alice Sebold PAGES: 78-188

TOTAL PAGES THIS WEEK: 110

QUESTION 1:Do you think you would read another book by this author? Why or why not?

RESPONSE 1: Yes, I would read another book by Alice Sebold. I would read another one of her books because I think she is and interesting writer, and I like her writing style in this book.

Alice Sebold’s writing style in The Lovely Bones is different from other books I’ve read, because she switches the characters around. One character will be talking or thinking, and then next another character’s thought will pop up.

QUESTION 2: If you could change one thing in the book, what would it be? Why would you change it?

RESPONSE 2: If I could change one thing in this book, I would make it more mysterious. It tells you who kills the girl in the first chapter, so you already know who it is in the end.

I wish the book would have more of a hook, so then nearer to the end I could find out who killed the girl. I might also change the story so it talked more about Susie, the girl who was murdered.

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.

LOTF Chapter 12: Cry of the Hunters

Dear diary,

The first place I decided to hide was a meadow, it was nice and peaceful, but i felt some evil. I then noticed the pig's head. When I went up to castle rock to find them, they told me I should leave because it wasn't safe for me there. They told me that Jack and Roger were going to hunt for me. Their signal would be a ululation, and that's how I would know when they were coming. They also told me that he "Sharpened a stick at both ends". At first I was confused about what he meant, but then I remembered the pig's head on the stick, that spear was sharpened at both ends. One end was in the ground, and the other was the head. They gave me meat from their feast, then told me to go hide.

Sam and Eric were forced to join Jack's tribe. They didn't want to, but Jack made them. Roger was planning to make a cordon across the whole island until they found me. I then decided to hide in the thicket beneath castle rock.. I chose to hide there because they would never look to find me that close. The only people I told that I was hiding there was Sam and Eric. But, when Jack and Roger found out i was hiding there, they tried everything to diddle me out of the bush. They knew that when they pushed the boulder on Piggy, it bounced once on the thicket i was in. So, they started pushing big rocks off the cliff, to see if they would hit me. When they didn't hit me, they burned the bush. I ran out onto the beach, and i found something.

I looked up and saw a white drill and epaulettes, and I knew we were finally safe. We had been rescued. Jack appeared on the beach holding his knife and spear, and Percival tried to speak and tell the officer his name, but all he said was "I'm, I'm,". When the officer asked if there were any adults on the island and who was in charge, I told him I was. He was really disappointed in all of us, because he expected us to act better, and he was really upset that two people were murdered.

- Ralph

Chapter 11: Castle Rock

1. In the beginning of the chapter, Piggy tells Ralph to call a meeting with the conch. Ralph laughed truculently and refused to.

2. Piggy decides to go over to castle rock and ask politely for his glasses back. He is not going to force, but he knows that it would be the right thing to do for Jack to give him his glasses back, so he just lets him know that.

3. Ralph want to go over to castle rock looking proper. he wants to bathe, and comb his hair, and look like his group has order. Sam and Eric want to force it.

4. When the boys arrive at castle rock, Roger challenges them at the entry.

5. When Jack appears, he is carrying a headless sow; he just got back from hunting.

6. Ralph starts calling Jack a thief, and that starts a fight. All the boys then got delirious.

7. After the fight, Sam and Eric got forced to join Jacks tribe.

8. During Piggy's speech, Roger was throwing rocks and stones at him. There was some cessation, but then Piggy began to talk again.

9. The person I think is most responsible for Piggy's death is Roger. I think that because nobody ever told him to push the rock off the cliff, he just did it himself. And he was also throwing rocks and stones at Ralph, Sam, Eric, and Piggy. He also crushed the talisman, the conch shell, while killing Piggy with the rock.