On pages 91-92, Susie reminisces about a game she and Lindsey play when they are younger; Lindsey pretends to be the widow to Susie's knight under the framed grave rubbing hung by their parents' bedroom door. "'You are dead, knight,' she would say. 'Time to move on.'" (page 92)
How is this remembered scene relevant to their current situation?
Susie saves her brother Buckley's life. He nearly swallows a small twig, choking on it. Susie, without even a learner's permit, takes her father's Mustang and rushes Buckley to the hospital.
"'If she hadn't been there,' the doctor later told my mother, 'you would have lost your little boy.'
Grandma Lynn predicted I'd have a long life because I had saved my brother's. As usual, Grandma Lynn was wrong." (page 94)
What are your thoughts about Susie's action and Grandma Lynn's prediction as they relate to the story?
Buckley believes he can see Susie, though she makes every effort not to appear to him. He remembers the day she saves his life and makes comparisons between the looks in adults' eyes then and now that Susie's gone. Susie, in Heaven, is shaken by watching Buckley. "Had my brother really seen me somehow, or was he merely a little boy telling beautiful lies?" (page 95)
Do you think Buckley actually sees Susie, as he claims? Or is it childish magical thinking?
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