1st ROAR POST - term 3

Summary
My ROAR selection for term 3 is Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I absolutely love the book and
wish I could read it forever. Right now I read up until page 74 and so much has happened that its crazy. The first chapter she was raped by her neighbor Mr.Harvey who killed her right after by chopping her into pieces. After she dies she goes to her heaven where she looks to earth and sees everything that's going on. Her father is hurt the most because he shared many memories with her and he just doesn't want to face the fact that shes dead. Her mom and sister are hurt as well but its not stressed as much as the father. She is happy in heaven but misses everything about her lfie and what gave it meaning to her. Now in the book the police is stil ltrying to work on her case but there are no leads or anything. The father suspects on Mr.Harvey but the police find that theres no reason to think that so now im just goign to keep reading and find out whats goign to happen next.
Quotation
"He took the hat from my mouth.
"Tell me you love me," he said.
Gently, I did.
The end came anyways"( Sebold 15).
Reaction
I have no words to describe the feeling this part of the book gave me. I felt so bad and useless because I couldn't do anything about it. I know its only a book but she is not the only one who has been raped before in this mean cold world. I really get mad when I start to think how there are actually sick people like this, who do this too young innocent girls. She was so innocent and was just being a nice neighbor to him but he decided that he wanted to force it. Once I read that last line, I couldn't believe he killed her right after. In those few seconds I was thinking to myself how I should be happy that I'm alive and nothing like that has ever happened to me.