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Chapter
6
The plot:
When the family were having tea, at tea
time of course, Virginia wasn’t with they.
So, Mr Otis went to find her, but he
failed. However he remembered that
Virginia, at that time used to go to the
garden for picking up the flowers.
After an hour Mr Otis began to really
worry and he searched for Virginia in all
the rooms of chase. But also this time he
failed.
The family was very agitated, and the
little Duke of Cheshire went with the
family searching of Virginia. Mr. Otis
thinks that the Gypsies kidnapped Virginia
but he’s wrong!
He sent a telegram to the police where he
said that his daughter might be kidnapped
by the gypsies and he gave them some clues
to find her.
When Mr Otis did not believe to find
Virginia any more and thought that his
daughter was dead, she came back home with
a little casket in her hands. Virginia
explained to her family that she had
helped Sir Simon die in peace. And the
casket was a gift given by Sir Simon to
Virginia to thank her for her help.
Comments:
This
chapter introduces the end of the novel.
We can see that in all the comic stories
there is a point where there is a sad
moment and this is the point in this book.
We can feel a different atmosphere while
reading this chapter, it’s much darker
than the other chapters. With the other
chapters we all thought that this story
was only humorous and absolutely not a
ghost story. Now we can understand that
the author wanted to keep the ghost story
genre and by writing this chapter, the
author kept the ghost story as a ghost
story. Sir Simon finally died so we can
understand that nothing much will happen.
Maybe the story could have ended with this
chapter, with the death of the ghost. We
may think that Chapter 6 actually makes
Chapter 7 useless.
If we give a general evaluation of this
book we can say that it’s a very
attractive and exciting and amusing book
and one of the reason is because it
underlines the differences between the
American people and English people, The
New And the Old World. In fact in many
points of the book this difference is very
evident and it produces a very humorous
effect.
Quotations:
“ Oh brother my hat! I want Virginia”.
To complete our comments we can say that
this sentence highlights the frustration
of the family for the disappearance of
Virginia ( in this case the pain of the
little Duke of Cheshire).
Valerio, Mattia, Fleur, Lea
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