Chapter 15
by Chris
Summary:
Mr. Harvey we learned already had a hard childhood. In this chapter, Susie explores more of his relationship with his estranged mother. George Harvey was taught how to steal from others and how to be a scavenger from his mother. Obviously this woman was clepto and showed her only son the tricks and trades of getting what you needed and wanted. One night Harvey and his mother were pulled off on the side of the road to sleep in the small old truck, when three drunken men saw an opportunity with the young female. Harvey witnessed and unknowingly helped his mother run over the men with his father’s truck; it was then that he first began to realize that women and children are not meant to live.
Since Lindsey flew out the window, Mr. Harvey had a moment to collect himself and take of business. He knew what he would say to the police when they came searching and asking questions, he had the right answers. So he knew that first and foremost he had to hide the few pieces of evidence that linked him to any kind of murderer, the charms of his victims, the knife with Susie’s blood on it….all hidden away under the basement floor in a handkerchief hooked to a piece of metal. After his few minutes of hiding his precious belongings and the killer in himself, he called the police to report the break in.
Jack had called the cops and wanted to speak to Len, but he was not there, the dispatcher informed him that the police were already on their way to Mr. Harvey’s house. The police men combed through his house looking for any kind of evidence supporting the theory of the crazy fish guy and also the sketch his daughter found. They turned up empty and felt a bit uncomfortable by even having to be there. The policemen talked with Mr. Harvey about his dollhouses and other things for all politeness sake.
The police officers received word about the missing page of Mr. Harvey's notebook, and had to ask the odd man about it no matter how uncomfortable it was for them. Mr. Harvey held the perfect answers for the unsuspecting officers, he had said that he become upset with the hideous crime and that there were no leads. He began to think of how the murder had of been committed in the cornfield and how the killer could of done it, with no trace of evidence or no eye witnesses...this led him to the underground makeshift room. The police took the story hook, line, and sinker, he was in the clear for now but he knew that Len would question him and would see right through his well prepared lie. So that night, Mr. Harvey packed his things, and took off in the night.
Abigail had taken off to run errands after Lindsey's escape from Mr. Harvey's, she went to pick up Buckley and meet Len in a public place. She dropped Buck off at the daycare place in the mall, to rendezvous with Len, she needed her escape more badly than discovering the true identity of her daughter's killer. She and Len had their way with each other in closed off area in the mall, all the while Mr. Harvey, her daughter's rapist and murderer wormed his way out of capture.... All she knew was that with Len, in that moment she could finally escape everything that have been weighing her down, she could leaver her own heart behind and find a place where she had no daughter at all, certainly not one that had been brutally murdered.
Characters:
Susie
Mr. Harvey
Jack
Abigail
Len
Places:Mr. Harvey’s childhood truck
Mr. Harvey's home
The Mall
Memorable Quotes:1. "You have to be able to look past the dead", Sometimes there are good trinkets to take away from them." - George Harvey's mother page 188
2. "He had had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be." - George Harvery page 190
3. "To find a doorway out of her ruined heart, in a merciful adultery" - Susie page 197
Questions for consideration:
1. Now knowing a little more of Mr. Harvey's childhood, is it easier to justify his problems, his disturbing addiction?
2. Why do you think that the cops bought into Mr. Harvey's story? Was it really that easy to believe, if you (the reader) hadn't known it was him or suspected?
3. What do you think about Abigail at this point, does she have some deep right to escape? If not, can you at least understand what she could why should would do the things she has done so far? Tell us how you interrupt her behavior, right or wrong?
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