Amistad
When Susie’s soul was leaving the earth, she accidentally touched agirl named Ruth Connors. Because of this experience, Ruth becomes fascinated with Susie’s life and her death. Susie watches a number of people on earth, including Ruth, Susie’s family and her crush Ray Singh. Susie recalls a picture she took of her mother, Abigail, where she is alone and staring out into the yard and has not yet taken on her daily role as mother and wife. Lindsey finds thephotograph in Susie’s room. Susie’s father, Jack, smashes all of the model ships he made. Susie used to help him make the ships, and she breaks the Inbetween by casting her face into the shards of glass.
Not long after Susie’s death, Mr. Harvey decides to build a tent outside of his house. Jack Salmon sees him and offers to help. Jack gets the feeling that Mr. Harvey knows something about Susie’smurder, and suspects him. He tells Len Fenerman, who goes to Mr. Harvey’s house to interview him but does not find him suspicious.
On Christmas, a boy named Samuel Heckler comes to visit Lindsey. He gives her a necklace and they kiss. Susie remembers one day she was late to school and she sat with Ray in the scaffolding in the theater, but the entrance of Ruth Connors interrupted them and theydid not kiss. Later that week, Ray kissed Susie by her locker. After Susie’s death, Ruth regularly walks the cornfield before school. Ray notices and joins her; they become friends. Jack Salmon goes to the Singhs’ to talk to Ray. There he meets Ray’s mother Ruana Singh, and he confides in her that he knows who killed Susie.
Grandma Lynn comes to town for Susie’s memorial. She brings some lightback to the Salmon household. At the memorial Lynn points out George Harvey to Lindsey and she faints. That summer, Lindsey, Samuel and Ruth go to a camp for gifted students. There, Lindsey and Samuel lose their virginity together. The final competition at camp is how to complete the perfect murder.
Susie watches Mr. Harvey and can see into his childhood, when his mother left the family.His house is exactly like hers, but more barren. He spends a lot of time making dollhouses. Jack Salmon hopes to find clues about Mr. Harvey and constantly calls the police station to report trivial facts about the man. Finally, Len Fenerman comes to their house and tells them they are no longer pursuing the investigation of Susie’s murder. That night Jack sees a light in the cornfield; he thinksit is Mr. Harvey so he goes out with a baseball bat. It turns out to be Susie’s friend and her boyfriend, and Jack gets beaten up and goes to the hospital. There, Abigail begins an affair with Len Fenerman. Susie knows that Abigail never wanted to be a mother, and she is trying to find a way to escape from Susie’s death by having this affair.
When Jack gets home his leg is still stiff. Abigail...
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