The Lovely Bones Study Guide

Susie remembers her first and last kiss with Ray.

Ruth and Ray drive to see the sinkhole before it is filled.

Len drives to the hospital to see Jack. He knows that Abigail is with him, and he feels guilty. He intends to give them Susie’s keystone charm.

Abigail is stricken when she sees Len, but recovers quickly. He tells them the police found the charm near a grave in Connecticut. The grave does not belong to Susie, but this connects Susie’s murder to the other murders.

Harvey is driving a battered orange car. He has been having the dream about Lindsey again. He is also flooded with the memories of his victims. He remembers his first crime, which was the rape of a friend. The girl died a few years later. Susie sees the girl sitting in the passenger seat of Harvey’s car.

Ruth and Ray arrive at the sinkhole. An old gas stove is rising from the sinkhole. Ruth sees Susie standing beside her.

Lindsey is home alone. Harvey is driving through the neighborhood. He no longer cares if anyone sees him. He watches Lindsey through the window.

Susie sees the final vestiges of the women and animals Mr. Harvey killed finally leaving his house.

A police officer approaches Mr. Harvey’s car and asks if he is lost. The officer tells him to move along, but writes down his license plate number.

Ruth does not tell Ray she saw Susie. She sees Mr. Harvey drive toward the sinkhole. She sees the blood-soaked victims sitting in the car with him. She then blacks out.

Susie falls from heaven to Earth.