Group discussion September 8th 2010.

How was the story evolved?

In the book, life goes on on earth. Everybody feel sad but they slowly start to fins good things in their lives. Lindsey gets a boyfriend, the granmother brings light to the house with her optimistic atitude and thoughts. Susie's friends Ruth and Ray find eachother. They talk every morning next to the cornfield where Susie was murded. Susie's father thinks that Mr. Harvey, their neighbour, is the murder of his daughter. Mr Harvey tells different names of his wife who died a couple of years ago and he is also acting wierd. But still the father doesn't have enough proofs. Many people, like Ray's mother and the rest of Susie's family, know about the father's suspicions.

SUSIE

She has been more used to life in heaven. She spends a lot of time watching what is happening on earth. She baerly mentions heaven. Susie is not jealous at the people on earth but it makes her sad seeing her family grieving. There's another girl in heaven named Holly. Susie and her become friends. Sometimes they have the same heaven, but when Susie thinks of her own life and is watching her family, Holly isn't there. She is in her own heaven then. Franny, an older woman in heaven, becomes like Susie's mother up there. She gives her advice and things that a mother can help a child with.