Blog Entry #3

Blog Entry #3

I've been really busy with my brothers, and we're planning on a vacation somewhere up north maybe. Nothings final yet so i'm just wasting time reading and writing. So this is about chapters eleven to fifteen.

Chapter Eleven is about Mr.Salmon obsessing over the fact that Mr.Harvey killed Susie. He stops by his house and keeps on calling the police to look into the matter until finally, Len comes over to his house and tells him to let it go. Mrs. Salmon agrees with Len, and Susie's father begins to see their relationship developing and he feels truly alone. We go to Mr. Harvey's house, where we see that he counts his victim's belongings and animal's bones to stop himself from killing children. 

Late one night he sees a flashlight in the cornfield, and hits whoever it was with a baseball bat. It turns out it is Clarisse, who is waiting for Brian, her boyfriend. Hearing his girlfriend's screams, he attacks Mr. Salmon with his flashlight. Susie watches sadly from Heaven, and is permitted to go down to earth for one task: She blows out the candle in her fathers study.

In the next chapter, Mr.Salmon is in the hospital with surgery in his knee. When his family discovers he is not at home, Mrs.Salmon makes no move to go out and find him and instead she waits. When the hospital calls, she drives off, telling Lindsey and Buckley to stay at home. Lindsey drops Buckley off at his friends house and asks Hal to drive her to the hospital. She reaches before her mother and sings to her father.

Meanwhile, Mrs.Salmon meets up with Len in the hospital and he tells her that his wife committed suicide. They kiss, and Susie sees that her mother was never the person she wanted to be. Over the years, her father had grown closer to the kids, and her mother further away.

When she finally goes to see her husband, she is grateful to see that Lindsey and Buckley have each other.

Chapter thirteen starts with Lindsey returning to school as the sister of the dead girl, and the daughter of the psycho man. Buckley starts kindergarten as well, getting special treatment because of Susie. Susie starts to feel upset that everyone except her is growing up.

Mrs.Salmon drifts aimlessly through life, knowing that the first anniversary of Susie's death is coming up. Jack goes to his office work for comfort, and decides to work when the anniversary approaches. He also wants to be away from his wife, knowing that the two of them are drifting further apart.

Two weeks before Thanksgiving, Mr.Salmon plays with Buckley in the backyard. Susie is thankful that their relationship is growing stronger,and afterwards, Mr.Salmon sees Lindsey trying to shave. He gives her some tips and helps her, all while thinking that this is his wife's job. He tells Lindsey about Mr.Harvey, and how he thinks that he has murdered Susie. Lindsey doesn't say much, but she knows that she has to get inside Mr.Harvey's house and look for proof.

Thanksgiving arrives, and so does Grandma Lynn. She notices something wrong with her daughter,and when they go for a walk, her suspicions turn out to be correct- Mrs.Salmon is cheating on her husband. She tells her daughter to stop the affair immediately, and the two bond a little bit, with 'nuggets of truth' coming out. Mrs.Salmon goes off to Ray's mothers house to smoke some foreign cigarettes, and Grandma Lynn heads back home. Ray, upstairs in his room, wonders what would have happened if he had kissed Susie.

In the next chapter, Lindsey starts planning. She starts thinking about how she will break into Mr.Harvey's house and look for clues. Meanwhile, Mr.Harvey knows that the whole Salmon family suspects him and starts to feel a familiar itch. When Lindsey sees Mr.Harvey leave his house, she pretends to have a stitch in her side, and lags behind the other runners. She slips inside the house and looks for some clues.

She stumbles upon his sketchbook and while she's going through the pages, she hears a car come up the driveway. But she goes to the very last page, which is titled 'Stofluz Cornfield' which is where Susie was killed. She tears the page but Mr.Harvey hears her upstairs and runs to catch her. In a moment of panic, she jumps out the window, but Mr.Harvey sees her jersey number, 5.

Back at home she shows everyone what she found and tells her father that she believes him. Susie, meanwhile, meets with all of the girls who were murdered by Mr.Harvey and they share their stories. Susie feels like she is ready to move on to heaven, and feels her pain going away.

In chapter fifteen, we start off with Mr.Harvey's childhood. His mother used to make him shoplift, and when they were sleeping in the car one day, some drunk men tried to harass his mother, and she cleverly fooled them long enough to drive them over with her truck.

At the Salmon residence, they give the sketch to the police but Mr.Harvey makes excuses and when the police leaves, he starts packing up.

Len is not able to go and interrogate Mr.Harvey, as he is busy with Mrs.Salmon. Both of them spend time together at the mall, while the rest of the family waits for news about Susie's murder.