3rd Blog - The lovely Bones

As we read more through The Lovely Bones, we start to analyze and see more of each character's perspective. We saw a little more of Ruth's side, and her connection to Susie Salmon, and Ray Singh. We noticed that Ruth had a deep connection with Susie and that she had feelings for her. We discussed that those may be the reasons why Susie fantasizes about both Ruth and Ray together, because those are her people that she shared a deep connection with in the past.
We discussed further into perspective and really went for each meaning behind every word said in these few chapters. We were thinking that since Ray was Susie's first "crush" that he left a strong mark in her life, and which is why she wont let go. Although he was a small part of her life, he left a big mark.
We all understood how Susie felt, because we've all had a "crush" before and understand how Susie feels when she thinks of Ray.

2nd blog - The Lovely Bones

Are there times when it is okay to kill?
After reading and seeing how its like through the eyes of Susie Salmon, you understand more the pain of what she feels. We discussed the pain, for Susie to watch over her family as they were destroyed by the death of their daughter. She watches over them, knowing her killer is still out there, trying to help her family solve her murder, in the least way possible.
It is never okay to kill. You may think someone deserves death, no matter how much harm they did, but two wrongs dont make a right. There will always be consequences but never will it ever result in murder. I think that no one life deserves to be taken away. Thats not a way to "teach someone a lesson" , that is a result of revenge.
 Mr.Harvey is a bad man, with bad morals, and what he did to Susie is unforgivable, but killing him wont bring Susie back to life.

Response

You are on the right track. Now try and add a few more details as modeled in class. What does this remind you of and why, bring in text support and how do you see yourself growing through discussions.

1st Blog - Lovely Bones

This week we read up to chapter 4.
We discussed Susie's death. She was easily pulled in by Mr.harvey because she trusts him. To her, he is the last person that would ever harm her or even kill her. We discussed the value of trust. When you really trust someone, you see them as a good person and you respect them. Susie respected Mr. Harvey as a person and as a neighbour. The thought of her going into his basement was odd for her, but at the same time she didnt expect the worse in him. The last thing on her mind was to get murdered by her own well trusted neighbour.
Her family went through a tough time after hearing about their daughters death, knowing that the killer is still out there. Her killer being their neighbour, is an even worse thought.
We discussed how innocent Susie is, and how she didnt know any better. She was naive and believed that he wasnt harmful. Placing her trust straight into the palm of his hands. Leaving him to take advantage of that, and murdering Susie Salmon.
A few questions we discussed was whether Mr.Harvey was going to be caught by the police or not? If her parents will realise that hes not so innocent.

Movie - Lovely Bones

1.      1. Synopsis:  Susie Salmon is a 14 year old girl that was murdered & raped by her trusted neighbor Mr. Harvey. Mr. Harvey was very well trusted by her parents and was least expected as the killer. Susie now watches from heaven as her family deals with her murder. Her dad is determined to find the killer. He suspects that the person that killed Susie is Mr. Harvey but the mom disagrees. This leaves conflict in the movie as the dad tries to figure out his daughter’s killer.

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2.This movie has many layers as it shows you different perspectives of each character.

The first layer is the outside, the way it looks to the human eye; a typical neighbor that you can trust. Mr. Harvey is very well trusted by Susie’s family. A few conversations with him here and there and suddenly they can trust him. Anyone can look innocent on the outside but you don’t know who they are on the inside. This leads us to our second layer. Mr. Harvey is a lying killer. He is the least suspected because his plan is to play the role of the typical friendly neighbor. You never know who is bad and who isn’t. No one shows their true colors. For Susie’s mom, he is the last person you would suspect. Just another ordinary guy that would never do harm to a child.

This shows darkness, because you never know who you can really trust. This man killed a young girl and raped her. But he will never be a suspect because he is very sneaky and makes sure that he keeps the role of an innocent, ordinary man. Behind his face, is a much deeper, darker side to him.

3.      3. I can relate to the Lovely Bones because I’m always out walking around. I never know who I can and can’t trust. There are many serial killers out there that are least suspected. Just by putting on a nice face, anyone can gain your trust. This scares me for when I go out but you just have to keep your guards up.

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4.What do we mean by evil?

When you go out of your way to harm someone or something that doesn’t deserve it is evil. Someone with darkness behind them, and bad morals is an evil person. Mr. Harvey was an evil man because he raped and killed a young girl and got away with it as the innocent person. He knew he was doing something wrong because he was covering up his actions. People that do this are evil & have bad intentions.

The Rwandan Girl who refused to die

EQ : what do we mean by evil?

In the story The Rwandan Girl who refused to die, Valentina was a victim of violence. This girl was only 13 years old, and had no one in her life. Her family was killed in a massacre.
The world Evil in the dictionary is defined as : "morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked"
To do something that is not normal, and not done by others except the small amount of people that do, those people are considered evil. The fact that they are the only ones doing it, and it is not a regular thing to do, is definitely NOT right in humanity.
"if they found someone alive they would smash their heads with stones. I saw them take little children and smash their heads together until they were dead."
To be able to take a child's/children's life/lives, and doing it with your own two hands, is not something to be proud of. You must put your selves in the shoes of a 13 year old little girl, or in her family, or even parents' shoes. If you cant do that, and cant understand the pain that these children are suffering, then you are an evil cold hearted person. If you cant feel what they feel, then you will continue to do it because no feeling or sympathy will stop you from doing it.
You can already visualize Valentina's wounds on her head and her cut off arm. The author explained it very well in detail, to make sure that the readers understand, and are put in Valentina's shoes for the very few minutes they are reading this story. Whether its for 1 min or 10 mins, aslong as you feel sympathy for this girl, you know what she feels and where shes coming from; this helps you understand more and make sure that you would never do that because you yourself would never want to go through that.
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You have definitely give several examples as to how you and Greg are similar. To develop ths further, could you back up the points from the story with specific quotes. THis will haelp develop your writing. You are seeing how authors create characters that reders cand idnetify with adn inturn give us a better understanding of the story.