The month was coming to an end. Unfortunately, February skipped along to March without any consideration for Jessie’s birthday. Another year passed; Jessie stayed two and Megan turned ten! Megan planned to share her party with her twin sister— again!
Megan and Jessie and their best friends looked forward to their first sleepover in the basement room. They planned to push the double beds together, give each other makeovers, eat pizza and talk until midnight. Although excited, Jessie was nervous about Raven scaring Hannah and Nikki.
In confidence, Jessie told Nikki there was a ghost in her basement. That Raven's crying would ruin the sleepover. Jessie needed to get rid of the ghost. Nikkipedia would have a sensible suggestion.
Nikki investigated ghosts on the Internet. She downloaded the electronic version of The Starter Séance, by Alistair Sagebourne, the renowned spirit seeker. Nikki hoped Sagebourne had the answer to Jessie’s troubles.
After reading through the Sagebourne book, Nikki found a solution and stopped by to tell Jessie what she had found; that people held séances to make peace with ghosts, she recommended they hold a séance to encourage Raven to quit haunting Jessie.
Megan overheard Nikki describing, The Starter Séance and suggested, “Let’s have a séance at my birthday sleepover! We can talk to Raven! Jessie, it'd be so cool...”
Jessie looked from Megan to Nikki, her chestnut eyes opened widely.
She spoke in an uncertain voice, “I’m not sure it’s a good idea... What if, ah… what if we make her angry?” Jessie stared at the other two girls without blinking.
Nikki logically explained as she touched Jessie’s arm, “Jessie, my research into ghosts suggests spirits usually welcome the opportunity to speak....
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...er. They did not want to hurt Jay J’s feelings, but the séance was a secret.
Jessie replied, “Sorry, Jay J. No boys allowed. You can have a cupcake... if you want.”
Shaking his head, Jay J left the closet and lingered in his sisters’ bedroom. Megan shut the closet door behind her brother.
With everything in place and the food arranged, the birthday feast could begin. They each took a seat around the desk and heaped chips, popcorn, carrots, celery, and pizza on their plates and poured glasses of delicious apple juice.
Megan and Hannah had started on their second plateful when Nikki pulled her e-reader from her backpack and began to look through The Starter Séance. The friends decided to eat the cupcakes later when they had room in their over-stuffed stomachs. Clearing the table for the séance, Jessie, Megan and Hannah moved the food from the desk to the dresser.
Purvis wanted Jessie to toughen up so he would survive living on the Moonlight, which he achieved by treating Jessie as an adult, not like an infant. Purvis taught Jessie not to whine and which warned him not to show his concern towards the slaves. By being firm with Jessie, Purvis proves that he has Jessie’s best interests at heart and is looking out for him. Jessie realised Purvis's attitude towards him was Purvis’s way to show how much he cared about Jessie. Telling Jessie not to show concern towards the slaves and not to whine about his situation is evidence that Purvis and Jessie’s friendship was not sweet but instead helped by developing a friendship built on
Eleanor has been entirely addicted to the house, but “whatever walked there, walked alone” (182). She commits suicide and will stay with the house forever. Eleanor was a ghost even before she died, she was banished
said he replied to Jonnie telling her that was okay, and to bring them over.
... I had never even seen most of the food displayed, I eagerly and respectfully tried each dish. After everyone in the room sat down at the massive table, the Rabbi picked up a glass of wine and made a prayer over it. Then, Rabbi Kanelsky passed around pieces of Challah bread to the entire table. This lunch festival was yet another ceremony dedicated to one of the member’s deceased relative. At the conclusion, the Rabbi said another prayer out loud for the deceased and the relative expressed his gratitude to everyone.
When first introduced to Tossie, one learns that she is a firm believer in Spiritualism, which is a religious movement where the core belief is that spirits of the deceased can be contacted directly by living people (Rutter). Tossie informs Ned that the previous day, the spirits had rapped out “beware” and “the letter C” during a séance with Madame Iritosky, which led her mother to conclude that something awful had happened to Princess Arjumand (Willis 98). Madame Iritosky indoctrinates Mrs. Mering and Tossie with her Spiritualist ideals, informing them that “spirits often hover near [a] portal” which is the reason she cannot leave her home to perform seances (108). When Ned and the others finally make it to the Merings’ home, they burst in on a séance which leads to Mrs. Mering fainting. She is overcome with emotion at the sight of “the spirits” who were “draped…in seaweed” and “shining with an ethereal light” (178). Mrs. Mering assigns every strange thing that happens a reason that is ultimately related to Spiritualism. Cyril’s snoring is the “ethereal moan” of the spirits, she has premonition upon premonition that presumably predict the death of Professor Peddick, and we later learn that every prediction made under the guise of Spiritism is false (246). The skepticism revolving around Spiritualism is mirrored by the reactions given by Verity and Ned to Madame Iritosky. When Madame Iritosky and Count de Vecchio arrive at the Merings’ house due to “a message from the Other Side,” Ned and Verity discuss Madame Iritosky’s validity (288). Verity informs Ned that mediums “collect information to convince the gullible” which is a sign that people in the future have found ways to think critically about what they observe (292). Verity and Ned have different ways of
if his ghost disliked strangers in his home, or if his ghost was just a reminder for her to tell the
This cultural event also had a religious meaning and ceremony that went along with it. Like traditional ways, the birthday girl has to attend a special Mass that includes her close friends a...
This setting is in a haunted house in Idaho. Paige experiences some supernatural existences. She heard noises coming from her brother Logan's room but she didn't mention it to her mom or Logan because she didn't think it was that big of a deal. Then she started telling her mom, but her mom thought she was sick of thinking about all of this. Her mom took her to see a therapist. Paige knew that something was going on in her house, she knew that there was something wrong going on in there. She was too afraid to say that and it backfired on her. If she would of spoke up, her family could have solved this problem before it got out of control.
Jessie and Megan each brought one suitcase, packed with necessities. The girls brought clothes, swimming costumes, and a toiletry bag. The rest of their things had been left in their room. Jay J brought less than his sisters, in his suitcase. His room had to be packed up, and moved to the basement in preparation for the building work. He was quite upset he could not bring Ginger to the Tumbleweed; however, chickens were not allowed. For the time being, h...
I stopped by Jessica Stiles room and asked her a question. I then heard a light male scream coming from the hall. It was Sadie's boyfriend Cody; she pulled out a beard hair.
Harrison, Lindsay & Browne, Sylvia. (2003). Visits from the Afterlife: The Truth About Hauntings, Spirits, and Reunions with Lost Loved Ones. New York: Dutton.
would find out the truth. Jay gave everyone the impression that he was this kind
Morrison's heroine, Sethe, is literally haunted - by the baby daughter she killed in a gesture of terrible mercy, when threatened with recapture after her escape. Though robbed of friends by the poltergeist, she is living in the survivor's state of stunned calm until one of her fellow slaves from Kentucky turns up on her doorstep after eighteen years. Paul D Garner, with his special quality of empathy, is "the kind of a man who could walk into a house and make the women cry."
comes to know about the haunting ghost, he expels it from her house. Sethe is so relaxed to get liberated from the ghost that she invites Paul D to live along with her. On the other hand, Denver is very sad, who had no playmates or siblings considered the ghost of her dead sister as her best friend. She is jealous of her mother and Paul D having shared a past life and assumes that Paul D. is stealing her mother away from her.