The Lovely Bones (113-210)

Summary
In this section Susie talks about how the police think her father is crazy because of persistent phone calls.  Also how he has an obsession with his neighbor.  After a while she was talking about how her sister was becoming more responsible and how her father was nowhere to be found.  They assumed that he was going after her killer, Mr. Harvey, all by himself.  Her mother told Lindsey that she was not able to go and look for her father.  Lindsey told their brother, Buckley, that he could sleep in her bed with her that night.  When the police finally called they said that he was hit with his own baseball bat.  Then they went to the hospital.  Lindsey returned to junior high in the fall of 1974. She was known as the murdered girls sister, and the child of a crackpot, nutcase, and the looney-tunes. This hurt her even more later on. 

Quote
"We haven't talked about your sister in awhile" (Sebold 163).

Reaction
My reaction to this quote was mixed.  I always thought that people would want to talk about those types of things instead of bottling up those feelings.  But I realized that people have different ways of coping with things.  I thought that the father would want to talk to the daughter about the sisters death and him to tell her it's okay to talk about those things if it makes her feel better.