Lovely+Bones


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Week 4 Discussion Question: GenovaJ- How would you feel if you were Susie and had to watch all of whats going on in her family? How would you deal with it?

 DuchesneauA- I think that if I were Susie I would feel quite sad about being dead and I know I would find it hard to always watch over them. I would want more then to watch them I would want to be alive and be back on earth with my family. I think that I would also really hate Mr. Harvey and I think that I would try my hardest for him to get caught. I don't know how I would manage it, I would want to watch but I think it would make me so sad that I would stop watching over my family. So over all I'm not quite sure on how I would deal with it.

GenovaJ- Yeah i agree with that, i would feel very sad as well. I would also feel alot better if Mr.Harvey got caught and got what he deserves, so no one elts will have to worry about him. Its also very sad to have to watch your own family after your own death, amagine how some people handle these situations, it must be very hard. Week 3 Discussion Question:GrattanC- How would you feel about everyone you know on earth growing up and experiencing things that you cant ?

GenovaJ- I would feel very left out, I would wonder why I had to die, and why this had to happen. It would make me mad at times and I would always wonder what if I had ran away from Mr. Harvey that day, then maybe I would still be alive today. I would also feel like I was not important, like I was forgotten. I could only wish for peace and happiness, and if that doesn't work, what does? Susie was a really nice girl and everything, too bad this had to happen to her, and all we can do is wish for the best, and knowing everyone that you used to know was experiencing more things that you cant, would be very hard and even harder because I would have to look down and see them all the time.

DuchesneauA- All this is very true I would not be able to understand why it was me that had to die. I don't think I would be mad but more disappointed with myself for not listening to my mom better about not talking to strangers. I would also be happy that they would still be alive and that other people would take what happened to me and it made them a bit more cautious about how they interact with strange people. I would also feel sad about not truly being able to understand why they acted the way they did because I wouldn't have experienced everything like they did.

MunroR-Yes what you all said is true. I do not think I could handle that for as long as Susie has in the book. I would have given up a long long time ago. It would be so hard to watch you family fall apart to as hers is. With her mom leaving, her dad going crazy. it would be very very hard for me to stay and watch. And watching her two friends kiss and experience love when she never did, that would be really hard.

DuchesneauA- Ya, Susie is stronger than she gives herself credit for. She Is handling all this much better than I would ever be able to do. I feel that I would just give up, and not be able to watch I know that I would most likely be bitter about the fact that I was dead and jealous that my friends and family were growing up, learning to love, falling apart. Yet all this would make me sad and still want to stay watching over them hoping they would make the right choices in life. With all this I would torn apart in my mind; sadness, bitterness, and jealousy on one side with Love happiness, and hope on the other. I feel that Susie made the right choice about staying with her family and seeing what becomes of her family do you think she made the right choice?

MunroR- I am not sure. i think it was a good idea to stay and watch her family grow up and all but with the leaving of her mom it might be hard. and with her sister getting married and her dad in the hospital from the heart attack. It all could get very very confusing on what to do wit her life now that she is in heaven. This book is going to get pretty depressing i think.

GenovaJ- Yeah I think it would be a good idea as well. To be able to watch her family grow up and protect them for bad people. But with her mom leaving would be very difficult for her. She probably feels very sad and confused because sister getting married, and dad having a heart attack would be a lot for to watch. I agree with what Ryan has said, this book will be very depressing with all the drama in the novel.

Week 2 Discussion Question: DuchesneauA- Susie asked Franny about how to find her dead relatives, and is told that she has to stop caring and looking for answers down on earth. If you were in Susie's place what would you do and why would you do it? Do you think it would be difficult to stop wanting to watch your family living without you?

MunroR- Ya I don't think I could stop caring. Even if my family stopped morning over me and forgot about me I would still like to see how my family got by and see my little brother and sister grow up. I would also like to watch my killer and see if his life was at all harder and if he was ever caught.

GenovaJ- Yeah that would be very hard, I couldn't stop caring too much about my family. I would be very curious about the person who killed me as well to see if he ever gets caught of what he did to me. It would hurt even more if the killer kept on killing people and get off with it, he shouldn't be doing it and should be put in prison for the rest of his life.

DuchesneauA- I agree with both of you, and I would probably stay watching my family from my heaven to see them grow up, and live their lives. It would be hard to watch at times seeing my family forget about me over time, but it would also make me happy to see them moving on and being happy. Going to see your relatives in other heavens would be nice but it would be hard to let go of earth and I don't think I could do it I would want to stay watching over my family.

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Georgia,serif;"> GrattanC- I think that I would be a tough decision to stop watching earth, but I wouldn't want to dwell on my family, I think that would just make me upset, and frustrated to see them forget about me and move on, but like you said, it would make me happy that they were moving on with there live, and being happy.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">DuchesneauA- I agree with all that has been said I would want to watch my family move on yet I would also want to spend time with relatives that I could spend time with. Both watching over people and moving on have their good side and their bad side. The good side for watching over my family is that you can see them be happy and living the life they deserve, the bad side is, that you can't relate to the stuff they experience. The good side of staying with your relatives is that you get enjoy being with some of your family that you love, the drawback to that is that you don't really know them and you don't get to see what is happening to your living family. So if I were in Susie's place I don't think I would be ready to give my living family.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">MunroR- Now that i think more about it, you are right. I do not think I could morn over them for ever. I would need to let go and go see my family that I could talk to in heaven. I would still like to see my sister and brother grow up, but again no one to talk to I could not deal with it for very long.

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">GenovaJ- This is all very true, it would be very hard for me to do what she has been through. I would also feel hurt because I couldn't spent time with relatives that I cannot see anymore. I would want my family to be safe, and not let anything like this happen again, and it would hurt each time they think of me, and it hurts them and me at the same time, its hard to look down on earth and have to watch them go through this, but hopefully they can move on but never forget me. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">

Week 1 Discussion** **Question: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">MunroR- Susie keeps talking about how she can see everything that's going on in life wile she is in heaven. How do you think you would feel to watch your friends and family cry over you? Or watch your killer get away with it, and pretending he didn't do it? <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);">GrattanC- That's a good question, I would probably not be able to watch that.. but at the same time, to be able to know that your friends and family do care that your gone would be nice? Maybe. I would also be upset that my killer was getting away with my death, I would try to move things and help out the police solve my murder.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">DuchesneauA- I would feel really sad that my family whom I loved was crying over me. I would also feel quite guilty that I caused them so much pain. It would be really hard to watch the person who killed me get away with it, but wanting him dead and aiding him to be arrested would make me just as bad. It would be just as bad because in that time period people who where found guilty of murder where put to death. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">

GenovaJ- I would feel very sad that my family was crying over me while I could watch them do so. I would also think it was all my fault, that I shouldn't of went inside Mr. Harvey's secret clubhouse. Not just that, but when I saw Mr.Harvey talking to Susie's dad and saying I'm sorry for your loss, that really made me feel very frustrated because that sick minded person gets off with murder of a 14 year old girl.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">MunroR- I have to agree with pretty much all of that. I would hate to watch my family morn over me and watch them cry, but at the same time its nice to know someone cares so much. To watch the man who killed me get away with this all and just move on in life like it never happened, that would cause a huge issue for me. I don't think I could deal with all that pain.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 128);">DuchesneauA- That is very true, Susie should have never went inside that clubhouse, and watching him feign innocence about the murder would be horrible for me to watch. also what you said MunroR everything you said is very true. Knowing your family loves you is something everyone deserves and should know. Also i think the pain of watching Mr. Harvey move on with his life would be very hard and the pain would be terrible, but that's what i think Franny is there for to help people with that pain. so once again I agree with everything that was already said. **


 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">MunroR-Ya. Like I said it would be really really hard for me just to watch Mr. Harvey get away with my murder. I would feel so angry but not be able to do anything about it, but talk to more dead people. That's another thing I would hate, all Susie has are her two friends in heaven that she knows to talk to. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Georgia,serif;"> ****<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Georgia,serif;">

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">GenovaJ- I also have to agree with all of this, it is all very true, and all Susie has is her friends in heaven. This must be really hard for her right now with all this stuff going on especially when she is watching it in heaven. I know this would be something I don't know if I could handle, this would kill me inside, I don't know how shes doing it, but she stays strong and hopefully Mr. Harvey will get whats coming to him. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255); font-family: Georgia,serif;"> GrattanC- I agree also, I don't think I would like to watch my family cry, and then get over me, I think that would hurt, but I would have to understand that they need to move on with there lives, and so do I. **