The main character is Susie Salmon. In the beginning of the story, Susie is just your average, Innocent 14-year old girl. The story progresses quickly and before you know is she has gotten murdered by her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. This was very random and out of the ordinary. You don't really see her personality until she is welcomed into heaven. She is quiet, reserved and optimistic. This leads me into the next character.
Mr. Harvey, is the one who killed Susie, but the only people who know that is Mr. Harvey and Susie. This means that he hasn't been blamed guilty. He just happens to be Susie's family next door neighbor. He is also reserved and quiet. If you ask me, I think he is very creepy. Toward the middle of the book Susie's dad, Jack Salmon, starts to become suspicious of Mr. Harvey. Eventually he says something to the detective, Len Fenerman, but sadly he informed to Jack, "There is nothing, no matter how much we strech it, to connect him to Susie's death"(151). Something else interesting about Mr. Harvey is while Susie is in heaven she sees him killing animals such as small rabbits. She begins to believe this is his way of resiting the earge to kill actual people.
The next character is Lindsey. She is a year younger than Susie. She seem so be turning into a rebellious teenager after her sister's death. When Susie first died her entire family was in complete shock, they couldn't believe what they heard. But Lindsey kind of didn't want to talk to anyone about it. She snapped at the school principle when he asked her if she wanted to play on the girls soccer team, "'I'd say it when would be pretty hard to play soccer on the soccer field when it's approximately twenty feet from where my sister was supposedly murdered.'"(36).
