Short Story: Susan Hills

Nancy Morgan wedded Benjamin Hart, and moved with her significant other to northern Georgia. She was an oppressive spouse. Numerous recalled that she, as opposed to her better half, ran the Hart family unit, which in the long run included six children and two girls.

Mark’s psychological problems become more and more clear to the reader throughout the book. Eventually Susan McConnell can’t take the guilt feelings and decides to tell the whole story to the cops, but Mark is not okay with this and decides to tie up Susan and burn down the house with Susan and Mark inside. This part of the book is most likely the climax of the book; at this point, the reader finally is certain that Mark has some psychological problems. After this suspenseful scene the next chapter immediately starts back at the house of Susan, she is still alive and does not want to talk about what happened. Her mother tries to convince her to speak up and tell what happened, her mom eventually reads her something about a certain personality:

Even though it’s focused on Susan’s early childhood and her life prior to becoming Ms. Burton, the story itself is much more than Susan’s. There are layers, many layers, involved in Susan’s story. It can be read, by only looking at the outer, weak layer, where the reader is only

Secondly, the innocent part plays a key role in not seeing much of the world. Barton was much older with more of an understanding on how the world worked. For all the readers know this might have been her first time ever being into trouble. Barton fought the idea of killing Marilyn in his head. He tried to call and get the protocol changed, but in the end failed dramatically when he was turned down.

Susan Cain’s Quiet argues for the power of introverts. In her book, introverts are the main subject of her book. Who are introverts? What makes them different? Those where the main questions I had while reading this book. In this book Susan Cain tells her experience being an introvert, how she once puked before a presentation, she also tells the story of other introverts, how they maintained being introverts in a world filled with extroverts that can do what for introverts seems impossible without having to think twice about it.

Chilling through and through, The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, is a tale of both murder and growth, and, more so, the latter after the former. Introduced, quite bluntly, within the very first two lines of the novel, readers meet the narrator, “Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. . . murdered [at age 14] on December 6, 1973” (1). Susie, brutally raped and killed by a foul, twisted serial killer by the name of Mr. Harvey, is now giving the audience an eerie, psychologically thrilling recountal on the lives of those she once knew who continue to live. In a fascinating twist, Sebold has Susie go into detailed aspects of Mr. Harvey’s life, past, and the nature of his corruption. Although humans are not inherently or entirely benevolent or malevolent creatures from birth, one can see how the nurture of a human directly influences their qualities as seen through Mr. Harvey’s characterization and development.

He went to the inert form and took her over his shoulder, like she was a prize or booty for a pirate and went outside. He looked around at the darkness and went to the truck, putting her in the back and then putting the tarp over her. She would awake to a massive headache and terror as he went back to her apartment to clean things up.

I’m inspired by Susan Anderson because of the hard struggles she must have had to come through. Susan Anderson was a doctor in the late 1800. Anderson was born January 31, 1870 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and later decided to move to Kansas. Her parents divorced when she was a child. She lived with her father, younger brother, and grandmother. After her graduation from high school in 1891 she and her family moved to Cripple Creek, Colorado. Anderson was convinced by her father to go to medical school, She graduated in 1897.

In the rising action of the story, Russell demonstrates that Susan is initially possessed by the Devil and she is unable to exert control over her own life. Susan who was a kind and compliant little girl began to act weirdly declining to attend church services and disobeying all authority figures that surround her. Firstly, when Father Sargent and the Bishop are in the rectory, the Catholic priest explains to the Bishop that “[Susan] was a ventriloquist’s dummy” when “she sunk strong sharp fingers into [Father Halloran’s] throat” (Russell 33-34). Here, Russell illustrates that Susan’s transformation to a “dummy” explains how she is possessed by a demon. Naturally, human beings are incapable of transforming into other creatures. The fact that Susan attacks Father Halloran with her “sharp fingers” demonstrates that Susan has a lack of control over her actions as she tries to hurt the person who wants to help her and find a solution to her problem.

At the beginning of the book, a murder happened, which caused grief to the victim's parents, close friends, and her boyfriend. The victim of the murder was Susan Dempsey, she was found strangled to death on her school

Susie lies there motionless while a large, corpulent man moves on top of her. She tries to escape by thinking of her mother calling her for dinner or her baby brother trying to show her a picture. Yet, no matter how hard she attempts to remove her mind from the situation, Susie cannot ignore the great, shining kitchen knife now looming over her. In this opening scene from The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, readers are immediately made familiar with the context of the novel. Susie Salmon, the narrator, is murdered at the young age of fourteen by her sinister neighbor, Mr. Harvey. Susie then reports on the happenings on Earth from a place she calls, the Inbetween—a kind of purgatory that insists Susie and her family find closure. Throughout the novel, Sebold uses the cornfield, the Salmons’ porch light, and an icicle as major symbols to help develop the setting and the characters.

“Lily Brown”, a short story by Diane Goodman, follows the working life of a young woman with an apparent disability. Working as the voice of the short story, this young woman describes her various working positions and the numerous accounts that follow. Each job position she holds further reveals more about her internal well being, struggling with her disability.

Three days later a man by the name of Len Fenerman calls Susie’s parents which find out that the police have found Susie’s elbow. The police then continue their search by digging up the cornfield a few hours later. However, the snow and rain have completely ruined the crime scene. Although, it did not ruin the books that were found which then was discovered a note from her first and only love Ray Singh which Susie didn’t even have a chance to read. It disgusted Susie that while she was dead in heaven Mr. Harvey just carried on with his creepy life of building doll houses.

Hi Sue, we are on the same page with that respect, I prefer to be behind the scenes as well. I am not a real big fan of being the center of attention.

Susan did not start committing serious crimes until she met the two escaped convicts. Together they started committing armed robberies. She did have a very rough childhood, but everything changed after that point. She continued to get worse and worse. She started selling drugs, which she tried only when she was around people.