Reading Strategies Metacognitive Journal #2: "The Lovely Bones" by: Alice Sebold

Strategy Predict: Make a smart guess about whats going to happen next Quotation
"For eight years after Samuel told Hal about the drawing Lindsey has stolen. When late one night a Hell's Angel names Ralph Cichetti. He though his mother had been killed by the same man she rented a room to, Hal began asking questions usual questions. The man hadn't gone by the name George Harvey, though that didn't mean anything. But the murder itself seemed to different. Sophie Cichetti was forty-nine. She was killed in her home with a blunt object and her body had been found intact nearby. It was only when Cichetti mentioned something else that every hair on Hal's neck stood up. "That guy built dollhouses," Ralph Cichetti said. Hal placed a call to Len." (Sebold, 230)

My Response
When I first read this, it made me think that now Mr. Harvey will be found soon. That he hasn't only killed animals and people in the neighborhood but also others as well. In the next section of the book People will help the police find him as to how many people he killed. Susie also said that she know would see how many girls he killed like: Jackie Meyer, Delaware, 1967. Thirteen, Flora Hernandez. Delaware, 1963. Eight, Leah Fox. Delaware, 1967. Twelve, Sophie Cichetti, Pennsylvania, 1960. Forty-nine, Leida Johnson. 1960. Six, and Wendy Richter. Cinncticut,1971. Thirteen. Probably in the next few chapters there will be more clues found, that lead at Mr. H Harvey. Maybe the police might actually think he's the killer, and arrest him.

Clarify: Look closer when something is confusing

Visualize: Imagine a picture or movie in your mind as you read

"That night, as he had more and more often, my father stayed up by himself in his study. He could not believe the world falling down around him-how unexpected it all was after the initial blast of my death. "I feel like I'm standing in the wake of the volcano eruption," he wrote in his notebook. "Abigail thinks Len Fenerman is right about Harvey." (Sebold, 135)

This was a really sad part of the book for me to visualize, as it talked about her dad being broken down and misunderstood by everyone. I think that people have times in their life when they feel they have been misunderstood by everyone, the more they try to explain their right about something, it gets worse for them. I can visualize a man sitting in a dark room crying, and feeling helpless. He has a candle light on the table, were we is writing in his journal about his daily life and how he's trying to make his family happy at the same time give justice to his loving daughter. A man that's tying to find answers to something that the police has given up on.

Ask

"Ray looked into the eyes of

I wonder if Ray Singh knows about Mr. Harvey being

Questions: Ask questions to learn more

that photograph and saw right through them to the backdrop of marbleized suede every kid had to sit in front of under a hot light. What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone. He knew that no one ever really looked the way they did in photos." (Sebold, 111)

gone from the neighborhood. Does Ray still think of Susie or has he moved on? Has Ray been able to get over Susie and find someone else? The sentence makes me think that Ray's parents have decided to send him to another school. As he was as a suspect for Susie's murder, that his parents didn't agree to. Susie's dad came to apologize but his parents might think that it's not safe for him. By the way he looked at the picture, he's telling that the kind of girl he thought Susie was, she turned to be something else. At the end of the quotation he says about What did dead mean? He gave many answers, as if he was trying to say that when a person is gone no one without the people that care for him/her notice. To everyone else it just becomes another story to talk about. This was a part that I would relate to it and would clearly visualize. The connection that I can make is me and my mom going to the "Bazaar "(mall). Every time she take a piece of cloth out, she would ask me the same thing "What do you think of it?". I was so spoiled by family being the first child, I always got what I wanted. Going shopping, was one of the many things I looked forward to when I visited Pakistan, as I travel to many different countries. This scene also reminded me of some of the Indian movies I've watched, that used the same dialogue like Susie's grandma Lynn did. It's something really common used by most people even friends.

Make Connections: Connect what youre reading to something else

"Well find you a nice outfit in here," Grandma Lynn said and strode toward my clothes. No one could shop a rack like Grandma Lynn. On the rare occasions that she visited near the start of the school year she would take the two of us out. We marveled at her as we watched her nimble fingers play the hangers like so many keys. Suddenly hesitating for a few moment, she would pull out a dress or shirt and hold it up to us. "What do you think?" She's ask. it was always perfect." (Sebold, 107)

Summarize: Retell what happened in the story so far

Chapters 9-17 was very interesting as to many different things happened. For example, in this section I found out more about the killer, and how her family handles this. Susie's grandmother has came to visit, after Susie's death for the memorial. Lindsey has over heard her parents talking to her grandmother, about who her father suspects to be Susie's killer. But Lindsey doesn't understand who and asks her grandma, and at the memorial her grandmother points to Mr. Harvey. Who also attended the memorial but no one noticed him. Lindsey, Samuel and Ruth have attended this camp, Lindsey had told her about a dream she had about Susie and if she missed her. Things at the camp aren't going well, the leader has announced the big project topic. It happens to be about "How to Commit a Perfect Murder?". Len Fenermen had came to the salmons house to speak about how the police isn't investigating on the murder case anymore. Mr. Salmon was crazy with grief and had gone out to the cornfield seeking revenge, he ended up attacking Clarissa thinking she was Mr. Harvey. All Susie could do is watch from father get hurt by Clarissa's boyfriend Brian. Susie has told many things about Mr. Harvey's past he had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child. Lindsey Susie's sister cased Mr. Harvey's house for a week. When the right time came she broke into his house and brought evidence a page from his sketch book, a drawing of the hole in the cornfield. Len now thinks that Mr. Harvey is involved. Mr. Harvey saw her run out of his bedroom window, and after few minutes made a story up and called the police, that someone has broken into his house. He fooled the police with his story, and before the police could catch him we was gone. Susie's mother left home and traveled around to many cities in the United States, she wanted to get away from the murder. In 1976, Len Fenerman visited the large safety box in the

evidence room. They had found the bones of the neighborhood animals, in Mr. Harvey's house. The police team also had found an old coke bottle at the opposite ends of the field, finger prints matching Mr. Harvey's. Len Fenerman know believes that Jack Salmon was right from the beginning. He tried very hard to find him but it was like he has evaporated from earth. Susie's grandma came back and know looks over Lindsey and Buckley Susie's younger brother. His dad finally can walk properly after the incident with him and Clarissa, her boyfriend really hurt him and Jack had to get his knee fixed. Ruth had moved out of the house with her mother and know lived in New, York. Ray Singh was at the end of his freshman year at Penn. In heaven a person named Franny tells Susie that it's the right time you will meet some people like you. As Susie looks, there many girls coming her way she, each of them had stories to tell about how they came to heaven. As Susie told her she felt as if was belong here. Almost everything was fine in Susie's house everyone was happy, only one thing was missing her mother, that her dad missed so much.