Ruth experiments with vegetarianism after Susie's death. At home she is adamant about not eating meat; her mother is unappreciative. "'This is not Susie, for Chrissakes!' her mother would say, plunking down and inch-thick sirloin in front of her daughter." (page 114) However, while at the gifted symposium, Ruth eats eggs and sausage (page 115).
What are your thoughts on modified diets, vegetarianism vs. eating meat, and how it applies to the characters?
Lindsey wants a normal life. While at the gifted symposium, she draws a fish on her name tag in the place of her last name so that she will hopefully go unrecognized as "the dead girl's sister."
What do you think of the notoriety that comes from publicized tragedy?
"The Lip of the Grave" is the title of a poem that Ruth writes about Susie (page 114). It is also a phrase Susie uses while wandering Heaven (page 120).
What is the significance of this phrase?
While at the gifted symposium, Lindsey anticipates building a mousetrap as the final challenge. However, a new administrator decides to shake things up and introduce a new challenge: "CAN YOU GET AWAY WITH CRIME? HOW TO COMMIT THE PERFECT MURDER, announced her hurriedly drawn-up flier." (page 121)
What are the ramifications for Lindsey? What about Susie's friends? How does Susie, watching, feel about it?
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