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A Shady Plot
| Person | Extract from story | What it tells us about the character |
| John Hallock |
1. ...in the end things had always come my way... somehow I'd always been able to dig one (plot) up for him, so I'd begun to get a bit cocky as to my ability (to write stories). |
1. |
| 2. 'But my ghosts aren't a bit like you...'. | 2. sceptical | |
| 3. We scout around until we find a writer without ideas and with a mind soft enough to accept impression. |
3. gullible | |
| 4. | 4. creative | |
| 5. | 5. protective | |
| Lavinia Hallock |
1. | 1. loves novelty and thrills |
| 2. | 2. spendthrift | |
| 3. | 3. suspicious | |
| 4. | 4. jealous | |
| 5. Buys the Ouija Board but says it is for John's research |
5. manipulative, clever |
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| 6. Does not flinch when she meets the ghost but talks to her casually. |
6. strong |
| Person | Extract from story | What it tells us about the character |
| John Hallock |
1. ...in the end things had always come my way... somehow I'd always been able to dig one (plot) up for him, so I'd begun to get a bit cocky as to my ability (to write stories). |
1. overconfident |
| 2. 'But my ghosts aren't a bit like you...'. | 2. sceptical | |
| 3. We scout around until we find a writer without ideas and with a mind soft enough to accept impression. |
3. gullible | |
| 4. A ghost story had been the first fiction I had written. | 4. creative | |
| 5. I threw a protecting husbandly arm about her to catch her when she should faint. |
5. protective | |
| Lavinia Hallock |
1. 'You know I bought the loveliest thing this afternoon. Everybody's wild over them!' |
1. loves novelty and thrills |
| 2. You know I bought the loveliest thing this afternoon. | 2. spendthrift | |
| 3. 'You are acting very queerly', she sniffed. 'You are concealing something from me.' |
3. suspicious | |
| 4. 'Its bad enough to have you flirt over the Ouija Board with that hussy.... |
4. jealous | |
| 5. Buys the Ouija Board but says it is for John's research |
5. manipulative, clever |
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| 6. Does not flinch when she meets the ghost but talks to her casually. |
6. strong |
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Why did John want his wife to get rid of the Ouija board she had bought?
Why does Lavinia feel that the Ouija board would help her husband?
What sort of person was Michael's dad ?
Why is John's wife angry 4nd what does she decide to do?
| Apparition | a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event |
| Poltergeist | a reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people |
| Clairvoyance | a conjurer who expels evil spirits by conjuration |
| Crystal Ball | a spelling board device intended to communicate with and through the spirit world, obtaining answers to questions |
| Eerie | beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation |
| Medium | any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortune telling |
| Transmigration | a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, a ghost, spectre or phantom |
| Psychic | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| Ouija Board | the supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses |
| Exorcist | a person through whom the spirits of the dead are alleged to be able to contact the living |
| Premonition | a globe of quartz crystal in which images, believed to portend the future, are supposedly visible to fortune tellers |
| Paranormal | to pass into another body after death: going from one state of existence or place to another |
| Tarot Card | capable of extraordinary mental processes, such as extrasensory perception and mental telepathy |
| Vampire |
German word, meaning 'noisy ghost'- troublesome |
The narrator earns his living by
The writer was overconfident about his ability to write ghost stories because .....................
The sight of the ghost materialising in his room filled the narrator with.......
The ghost wanted John to...............
John wants the ghost to disappear before his wife enters the room and waves his arms at the ghost with something of the motion of a beginner when learning to swim. His movement shows his..............
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