Susie and why

Read Birthday Surprise. Put on your wellies! Lydia and her friends are at the river learning how to keep safe in and around water as she attempts to save a lost duckling, or so she thinks! Read Paddling Up Stream. As the magical snowflakes and icicles decorate the lane where Susie the childminder lives, the villagers need to work together to keep everyone safe. Read Snowflakes and Icicles. Only after she matures to the wide wide Heaven is she ready to tell us her story.

Throughout the novel, Susie offers fresh, candid perspectives on sex and sexuality. As in all things, she has the opposite attitude toward sex as Mr. Susie sees sex as a beautiful and healthy human activity — so long as it's consensual. Before Mr. Harvey, her direct experience with sex consists of a single kiss with Ray. Since she was fourteen and in the throes of her late junior high era, she's curious about sex. She's aware of herself as an object of desire, even to Mr.

Harvey when she encounters him in the cornfield. She says, I'd had older men look at me that way since I'd lost my baby fat, but they usually didn't lose their marbles over me when I was wearing my royal blue parka and yellow elephant bell bottoms. As she tells her story, she switches back and forth between depicting the consensual sexual relationships of her loved ones, and Mr.

Harvey's previous rapes. When she watches Lindsey and Samuel make love for the first time, she says, At fourteen my sister sailed away from me into a place I'd never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows. She sees it as part of her mother's process of healing and self-discovery.

As she matures in the afterworld, not getting to experience healthy sex becomes a huge regret, and something that holds her back from renouncing Earth.

Since Ruth is a virgin, and she lets Susie use her body to make love with Ray, it's like Susie is a virgin again and gets a chance to experience sex in a loving way. The novel does a pretty fabulous job of contrasting the extremes of healthy and unhealthy sexual relationships. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources.

Study Guide. By Alice Sebold. Previous Next. Live Susie's Talents and Dreams for the Future When Susie is on Earth, her dreams are fairly typical for a well-adjusted, talented girl. Susie and Mr. Harvey, Foils In Lucky , Alice Sebold's nonfiction account of being raped and the aftermath, she says, "I share my life with my rapist.

Tragic Hero If Susie was a nonfictional victim, we would never talk about her as a tragic hero with fatal flaws. Susie's Focus on Female Victims If you were from another planet and you read The Lovely Bones you might conclude that males are never the victims of violent sexual attacks and murders.

Susie and Sexuality Throughout the novel, Susie offers fresh, candid perspectives on sex and sexuality. Connor Mr. When she hears Snowy and Monster Kid speaking ill of Kris, she starts threatening them, indicating that she can still be a bully to other classmates. Susie lives in Hometown, attending the same class as Kris. She used to have Toriel as her teacher when she was younger.

Little else is known about Susie's history prior to the events of the Deltarune. At the beginning of the chapter, Kris comes late at school and for their project can't find a partner, until Susie comes later in the class, leaving the two spares having to pair themselves.

Alphys , the teacher, realizes that there is no chalk left and tells Susie and Kris to get some in the supply closet. Entering the school hallway, Kris catches Susie eating a chalk stick. Susie is aware of this and while Kris doesn't react, she grabs them and pushes them against a locker telling them " Quiet people piss me off. She eventually decides not to, out of sympathy for Toriel , who was her teacher when younger, as she think it would be sad to have her " bury her child ".

The two then enter the closet which is strangely dark. After some time wandering through the closet, Susie decides to give up on finding chalk when suddenly the door shuts itself and the floor collapses. Susie then wakes up in the Dark World. She is at first not concerned by the supernaturality of the events and simply looks for a way out.

The two eventually enter Ralsei 's castle who tells them about The Prophecy in which, Kris, Susie, and him are the heroes responsible for restoring the balance between Light and Dark by sealing Dark Fountains.

Ralsei is then interrupted by Lancer , who was previously hunting down Kris and Susie on their way to the castle. Susie who is eager for some fight realizes she has an ax as a weapon and begins to attack Lancer. Unlike Kris, she exclusively focuses on physical offense until Lancer eventually gives up and leaves. After that, Ralsei asks Susie and Kris to join him to fulfill the prophecy, which Susie declines, explaining that the end of the world is none of her business and might actually be " kind of fun.

On their journey through the Card Kingdom, Ralsei and Kris encounter several enemies warning them of Susie, or simply knocked-out by her. Ralsei tells Kris that they must stop Susie but also shows concern for her, thinking that she is having fun. They finally catch up to Susie when she is stuck on a puzzle barring her way.

After solving it, she is convinced by Ralsei to join the party since she won't be able to continue alone. She does, however, makes fun of Ralsei for most of their time spend together. Susie prefers solving conflicts with violence, and always attacks the enemy on top.

Susie can also be put to sleep using Ralsei's lullaby, though she wakes up if she takes damage. Upon an encounter with Lancer, who once again attempts a failed attack on the heroes, but this time in the presence of Susie, the latter calls him out on his ineffective intimidation and threatens to bite his face off to show what real villainy is.

Lancer is impressed and thanks Susie for showing him how he should act to be a true "bad guy. After a fight with King Round , during which Susie's use of violence turns out to be counterproductive, Ralsei tries to explain to her that she should follow his advice and stop using violence.

Susie, having enough of Ralsei's scolding, decides to side with Lancer as a bad guy, since he has actual admiration for her. Susie and Lancer then start antagonizing Kris and Ralsei, although this rivalry is mostly harmless and Ralsei is not more intimidated than when it was Lancer alone.

He is glad that Susie has found a friend and is having fun. After a fight with Lancer and Susie, they give up on fighting them and decide to join Kris and Ralsei.

In jail, Susie manages to escape and encounter Lancer. She gets angry at him, feeling betrayed by whom she thought as one of her few friends, and starts attacking him. Lancer, still remorseful, does not bother fighting back. Susie notices this warms up to him and understands that he only did that by fear of his father, who forces him to follow his order. She understands that reacting violently is sometimes not the solution and upon freeing Kris and Ralsei, decides to listen to Ralsei's advice, finally joining the party for real.

She still finds joy in teasing Kris and Ralsei during their time exploring the Card Castle, such as when re-fighting King Round, during which she throws Ralsei at their crown to defeat them. After finally encountering King at the top of the roof, he threatens to drop Lancer into the void for turning his back on him, which angers Susie.

Lancer manages to escape by himself and a fight between the heroes and King ensues. King eventually loses and starts apologizing for his deeds, showing regrets. This turns out to be a lure to make the heroes drop their guard and hitting them back, defeating them.

If some Darkners where defeated violently through the chapter, they do not come to stop King and Susie instead uses Ralsei's Pacify spell to put King to sleep.

Once King is finally defeated, Susie warms up to Kris and Ralsei, for whom she promises to be kinder. Her eyes are then revealed behind her hair. She follows Kris to the Dark Fountain as they shut it down. The two end up waking up in the unused classroom, which contains toys and objects similar to Darkners from the Card Kingdom. Susie wonders for a second if all of this was just a dream but regardless, this adventure helps her improve her relationship with Kris and she tells them to come back with her to the Dark World tomorrow, before leaving the school.

Susie is so excited to return to the Dark World the next day that she shows up to class on time. She teases Kris for showing up late, and laughs off Alphys's attempt at reprimanding her. After class, she excitedly drags Kris to the door to the Dark World, where she briefly wonders if the adventure was a dream and asks if Kris will still be her friend regardless. They are interrupted by Noelle , who startles Susie by inviting them to study at the library with her and Berdly.

As a preteen and teenager, she wears a different outfits. She first wears her hair in an afro with a headband, and then usually locs that she usually ties into a ponytail sometimes adorned with multicolored beads later in the series. In the revival , she has the same look as the original; the only exception is that she has yellow hair ties with beads and no lips.

She is only seen briefly in The Rugrats Movie , at Dil 's baby shower, having a singing competition with Angelica. As she sings good things about a baby, Angelica loudly and rudely sings only bad things about a baby, which eventually triggers Didi Pickles ' contractions. She is seen in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie , at the wedding reception of Lou and Lulu , dancing with Chuckie , and again for Chas and Kira 's wedding reception, where she joins in on the cake fight.

She is given a larger role in Rugrats Go Wild , as she tags along with the others, and uses her video camera to record their adventure. You can find the Susie Carmichael gallery here.

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