Reaction :
After reading what Scott had to say about the movie it makes a lot of sense as to why people would want to watch he movie and read the book. As he says , "We all like children, and — at least in our capacity as moviegoers, book-club members and consumers of true-life melodrama — we seem to like them best when they’re abused, endangered or dead"(Scott). He's saying that because all these bad things has happened to Susie it's what catches the readers like me attention towards the movie / book. Surprisingly, based on what the person would expect from hearing about the lovely bones it isn't very much depressing as it would seems. Scott said, " the novel is not depressing or assaultive but rather, somewhat perversely, warm, hopeful and even occasionally funny" (Scott). I liked that from what the review has to say about the movie it seems the same as the book. Especially keeping the whole entire concept. I know it does because Scott says "The title of “The Lovely Bones” refers to the relationships among these people that knit together in Susie’s absence" (Scott). This is the whole purpose in the book about how Susie dying even though was a horrible thing to happen but, the fact that it happen for a purpose and brought the people she loved together after taking them apart. Susie's death brought a stronger type of relationship between them , the author calls this bond " the lovely bones ".
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
The Lovely Bones ( 112 - 328 )
Summary
A lot has happened in the pages I've read. For one they found out that Mr. Harvey was guilty of what happened to Susie because he left one day and never came back. And later on they had found a charm that belonged to Susie was at another murder that Harvey committed. After Susie's mom left everything started to move on and grow up fast. Susie wasn't forgotten. Lindsey and Samuel got engaged and Buckley came older. When Buckley was telling his dad to choose between him or Susie he got s heart attack.. This brought everyone together over worrying about Jack , the father Susie's mom finally came back after 8years of being away from her family. Around this time Harvey came back in town. When he had passed Ruth, something had happened and Susie soul was inside Ruth's body. Susie didn't want to waste her time chasing after him so instead she spent her time with Ray that she always wish she could. But, her time on earth was very short. When everyone was together at her old home now, she realized her death had brought them closer and that's when she left to the other heaven. In the end of the book her sister has a baby daughter and names it after her.
Quote : "These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life" (Sebold 320).
Reaction: As soon as I read this paragraph in this story I knew it has great importance. Not only does it say the title of the book in it but, its the turning point of Susie finally excepting her death. She doesn't see it as something so terrible that happened and how bad it was. She know sees it as something that happened that actually led to the connections of her family and friends. She'll always be remember because he life was important. But, her purpose was to bring them closer. Yes, it was bad that she had to die so young and wasn't able to live her life but, she now has to accept this and see the positive to her death. This she could let go of wanting to be back on Earth and let it go because it was for the better. Susie needed to realize this so that she could move on to the bigger heaven.
A lot has happened in the pages I've read. For one they found out that Mr. Harvey was guilty of what happened to Susie because he left one day and never came back. And later on they had found a charm that belonged to Susie was at another murder that Harvey committed. After Susie's mom left everything started to move on and grow up fast. Susie wasn't forgotten. Lindsey and Samuel got engaged and Buckley came older. When Buckley was telling his dad to choose between him or Susie he got s heart attack.. This brought everyone together over worrying about Jack , the father Susie's mom finally came back after 8years of being away from her family. Around this time Harvey came back in town. When he had passed Ruth, something had happened and Susie soul was inside Ruth's body. Susie didn't want to waste her time chasing after him so instead she spent her time with Ray that she always wish she could. But, her time on earth was very short. When everyone was together at her old home now, she realized her death had brought them closer and that's when she left to the other heaven. In the end of the book her sister has a baby daughter and names it after her.
Quote : "These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life" (Sebold 320).
Reaction: As soon as I read this paragraph in this story I knew it has great importance. Not only does it say the title of the book in it but, its the turning point of Susie finally excepting her death. She doesn't see it as something so terrible that happened and how bad it was. She know sees it as something that happened that actually led to the connections of her family and friends. She'll always be remember because he life was important. But, her purpose was to bring them closer. Yes, it was bad that she had to die so young and wasn't able to live her life but, she now has to accept this and see the positive to her death. This she could let go of wanting to be back on Earth and let it go because it was for the better. Susie needed to realize this so that she could move on to the bigger heaven.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
The Lovely Bones ( 57 - 112 )
Summary
Susie's parents are having a hard time trying to get through there head that Susie is gone. It's greatly affecting her dad, mother and sister. Her father is being very suspicious of the next door neighbor of knowing something about about Susie's death which is right . But, him and others thought that Susie's crush, Ray had something to do with it which wasn't true. They just are really shocked that this could happen to their child. But, they finally have to come to reality and face the facts when they have Susie's funeral. As Susie's father felt they no longer had to pretend as if it didn't happen that day as if they weren't hurt. And it seems as if Ruth may be able to have some sort of connection with Susie and in helping her but , thats just my prediction .
Quote : " In the mirror she saw something different and so did I: an adult who could take care of herself. ( Sebold 103)"
Reaction : When I first read this sentence in that paragraph I said to myself , this right here is Lindsey's coming of age point. From other books / stories we read in class and from a quote we learned where it said that in a childhood there is no death. So, here is when she changes and what caused Lindsey to change was her realizing her sister is actually dead. And not only that when shes here looking in the mirror she sees her sister in her. Now shes feels more grown and able to go on with life even after something so tragic like this to happen to her sister. That she could still live on even after her sisters death. She could now take care of herself.
Susie's parents are having a hard time trying to get through there head that Susie is gone. It's greatly affecting her dad, mother and sister. Her father is being very suspicious of the next door neighbor of knowing something about about Susie's death which is right . But, him and others thought that Susie's crush, Ray had something to do with it which wasn't true. They just are really shocked that this could happen to their child. But, they finally have to come to reality and face the facts when they have Susie's funeral. As Susie's father felt they no longer had to pretend as if it didn't happen that day as if they weren't hurt. And it seems as if Ruth may be able to have some sort of connection with Susie and in helping her but , thats just my prediction .
Quote : " In the mirror she saw something different and so did I: an adult who could take care of herself. ( Sebold 103)"
Reaction : When I first read this sentence in that paragraph I said to myself , this right here is Lindsey's coming of age point. From other books / stories we read in class and from a quote we learned where it said that in a childhood there is no death. So, here is when she changes and what caused Lindsey to change was her realizing her sister is actually dead. And not only that when shes here looking in the mirror she sees her sister in her. Now shes feels more grown and able to go on with life even after something so tragic like this to happen to her sister. That she could still live on even after her sisters death. She could now take care of herself.
Monday, January 24, 2011
The Lovely Bones ( 1 - 57 )
Summary
In the begining of this novel , Susie the 14 year old narrator starts off about how she was killed and went missing. After explaining about her life before then she tells me , the reader about how her murder raped her but, doesn't go too far as to what happened after as to when she was exactly killed. She explains what her parents were doing at that time of her death. Susie also kind of explains her life in heaven but, even though its such a wonderful place where you can get almost anything you really wanted all she wants is to go back on earth and continue her life. But, she needs to face the fact that their is no going back now. While on earth her parents and family are going crazy waiting for there to be some kind of sign that Susie is found. After her dad helps her next door neighbor he gets this strange reaction from him as if he knew something about what happened to Susie. And he was absolutely right
Quote : " My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." ( Sebold 5 )
Reaction: This quote at the beginning of the book I personally thought was the best way to start. It made me want to pick up and start reading this book in the first place. Usually a I wouldn't like it for a story to just give me all the main details and conflicts at the beginning but, this lets me know that there is much more to come.
In the begining of this novel , Susie the 14 year old narrator starts off about how she was killed and went missing. After explaining about her life before then she tells me , the reader about how her murder raped her but, doesn't go too far as to what happened after as to when she was exactly killed. She explains what her parents were doing at that time of her death. Susie also kind of explains her life in heaven but, even though its such a wonderful place where you can get almost anything you really wanted all she wants is to go back on earth and continue her life. But, she needs to face the fact that their is no going back now. While on earth her parents and family are going crazy waiting for there to be some kind of sign that Susie is found. After her dad helps her next door neighbor he gets this strange reaction from him as if he knew something about what happened to Susie. And he was absolutely right
Quote : " My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." ( Sebold 5 )
Reaction: This quote at the beginning of the book I personally thought was the best way to start. It made me want to pick up and start reading this book in the first place. Usually a I wouldn't like it for a story to just give me all the main details and conflicts at the beginning but, this lets me know that there is much more to come.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
The Catcher in the Rye ( 151 - 214 )
Summary
In these last chapters I think Holden learned a lot about himself and his life. I could tell that out of everyone in his life he cares a lot about his sister. He has a huge connection with her and speaks about her in such a positive way. Like, hes always telling me, the reader how much we have to meet her. In the story, after he finally gets to see his sister he leaves this house so that his parents won't see him. He goes then to his old teachers house with was nice enough to let him stay over for the night and the teacher gives him so long speech basically telling him to get it together with his life and go to school and try harder. When he left his teachers house he some how decided that he was going to now leave and finally make his master plan to go far away from everyone and everything else in action. But, when Phoebe was trying to come a long with him and he said no he changed his mind about going. She wanted him to stay and he did at that moment choose to not leave. I think that was a turning point for him so how cause, he was so into starting a new life away from everything to just change his mind and actually stay. After reading this story I could see how it really is a Bildungsroman. For one Holden left a place of comfortability which wasn't just leaving Percey Prep but, it was him being on his own for once. And in the end he finally had his coming of age point when he was like he was going to go back him and in the last chapter he said that he had planned are trying harder in school. He finally came to his senses. Holden's coming of age point was different from one would usually expect giving the fact that his brother Allie did pass away and that usually is a coming of age point. But, it might of been the exact reason why it took him so long to get to that point.
Quote : " Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody ," ( Salinger 214).
Reaction : I like this quote a lot for many reasons for one I think it was a great way to end the book. When he says this its like he's giving us, the readers advice on life. It's like hes talking directly to me and I understand where he is coming from by saying this. This quote also helps me understand why Holden is the way he is. And why he's not close to anyone. Which makes me question, because he was so close to his brother that passed away is that the reason why he's more distant to everyone ? This ending to the story makes me think and wonder whats going to happen to Holden in the future. It kind of makes me hope and want them to make a second book continuing where they left off.
In these last chapters I think Holden learned a lot about himself and his life. I could tell that out of everyone in his life he cares a lot about his sister. He has a huge connection with her and speaks about her in such a positive way. Like, hes always telling me, the reader how much we have to meet her. In the story, after he finally gets to see his sister he leaves this house so that his parents won't see him. He goes then to his old teachers house with was nice enough to let him stay over for the night and the teacher gives him so long speech basically telling him to get it together with his life and go to school and try harder. When he left his teachers house he some how decided that he was going to now leave and finally make his master plan to go far away from everyone and everything else in action. But, when Phoebe was trying to come a long with him and he said no he changed his mind about going. She wanted him to stay and he did at that moment choose to not leave. I think that was a turning point for him so how cause, he was so into starting a new life away from everything to just change his mind and actually stay. After reading this story I could see how it really is a Bildungsroman. For one Holden left a place of comfortability which wasn't just leaving Percey Prep but, it was him being on his own for once. And in the end he finally had his coming of age point when he was like he was going to go back him and in the last chapter he said that he had planned are trying harder in school. He finally came to his senses. Holden's coming of age point was different from one would usually expect giving the fact that his brother Allie did pass away and that usually is a coming of age point. But, it might of been the exact reason why it took him so long to get to that point.
Quote : " Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody ," ( Salinger 214).
Reaction : I like this quote a lot for many reasons for one I think it was a great way to end the book. When he says this its like he's giving us, the readers advice on life. It's like hes talking directly to me and I understand where he is coming from by saying this. This quote also helps me understand why Holden is the way he is. And why he's not close to anyone. Which makes me question, because he was so close to his brother that passed away is that the reason why he's more distant to everyone ? This ending to the story makes me think and wonder whats going to happen to Holden in the future. It kind of makes me hope and want them to make a second book continuing where they left off.
Monday, December 13, 2010
The Catcher in the Rye ( 115 - 150 )
Summary
Holden was waiting for the time to finally come so that he could met this girl named Sally. When he met her according to him she looked amazing and even though he didn't really like her it kind of made him want to be with her. But , after they went to see the movie and she met that guy she used to know he became mad at her. After she has this idea that they should go skating and they did . When they went to go get food after Holden came up with some crazy idea about runaway and taking her with him right then and there however, Sally was not for doing so he became really mad at her. He said some harsh things to her and even though he said sorry she still left.Then he sees this guy , Caulfield and he asks him about his sex life.
Quote : " If a body catch a body coming through the rye " ( Salinger 115).
Reaction : After I read this sentence on page 115 it hit my mind that this was an important part of my book. It was basically the title of the book and that shows that this is some major symbol to the whole story. I really don't get the reason as to why the guy a the park was saying this I just know that this made the main character , Holden happier than what he was because he says that after hearing what the guy said he was less depressed than he was before .
Holden was waiting for the time to finally come so that he could met this girl named Sally. When he met her according to him she looked amazing and even though he didn't really like her it kind of made him want to be with her. But , after they went to see the movie and she met that guy she used to know he became mad at her. After she has this idea that they should go skating and they did . When they went to go get food after Holden came up with some crazy idea about runaway and taking her with him right then and there however, Sally was not for doing so he became really mad at her. He said some harsh things to her and even though he said sorry she still left.Then he sees this guy , Caulfield and he asks him about his sex life.
Quote : " If a body catch a body coming through the rye " ( Salinger 115).
Reaction : After I read this sentence on page 115 it hit my mind that this was an important part of my book. It was basically the title of the book and that shows that this is some major symbol to the whole story. I really don't get the reason as to why the guy a the park was saying this I just know that this made the main character , Holden happier than what he was because he says that after hearing what the guy said he was less depressed than he was before .
Monday, December 6, 2010
The Catcher in the Rye ( 81 - 114 )
Summary
In the chapters 12 through 16 Holden is still alone on his own. Holden was on his way back to his apartment a man named Maurice was trying to I guess sell him a prostitute , Sunny for some money. At first Holden said no but, he finally agreed to it. But, when she came to the room he did not do anything with her and gave her the five dollars Maurice first said it would be. But, later that night they both came to his room asking for another five according to Maurice and Sunny he owed them. Maurice ended up hitting him so hard that he was out on the floor for a while and Sunny went to go get the five dollars. Even though Holden was rich he was not going to let them play him for his money like that. He knew he was right and they weren't.He had a flashback about his old roommate, Dick Slagle. He was talking about how he disliked people who had cheap suit cases. To think about it he dislikes when people have less money than him because it makes him feel weird. As if it would always affect people and that was the exact reason he lived with Stradlater. Holden is suppose to meet this girl named Sally at 2 o'clock so he went to go get breakfast. And he had a great time talking to these two nuns.
In the chapters 12 through 16 Holden is still alone on his own. Holden was on his way back to his apartment a man named Maurice was trying to I guess sell him a prostitute , Sunny for some money. At first Holden said no but, he finally agreed to it. But, when she came to the room he did not do anything with her and gave her the five dollars Maurice first said it would be. But, later that night they both came to his room asking for another five according to Maurice and Sunny he owed them. Maurice ended up hitting him so hard that he was out on the floor for a while and Sunny went to go get the five dollars. Even though Holden was rich he was not going to let them play him for his money like that. He knew he was right and they weren't.He had a flashback about his old roommate, Dick Slagle. He was talking about how he disliked people who had cheap suit cases. To think about it he dislikes when people have less money than him because it makes him feel weird. As if it would always affect people and that was the exact reason he lived with Stradlater. Holden is suppose to meet this girl named Sally at 2 o'clock so he went to go get breakfast. And he had a great time talking to these two nuns.
Quote : " What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it too, " ( Salinger 104) . This one quote in all that I read really got to me. Holden has freedom as a teenager and all the money he wants. But, he is not at all happy with his life. Something must be seriously bothering him. He does not ever really seem to get happy over anything . This makes me think about has he ever been in a happy mood since i started reading this book. And I wonder and ask if he will over be in a good mood by the end of this book.
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