The Canterville ghost.
After a time, however, the brave old Canterville spirit asserted
itself, and he determined to go and speak to the other ghost as
soon as it was daylight.‘
1. Why does the narrator call the ghost brave‘?
2. Why does he choose to visit the ghost during the day?
3. Describe the second ghost that the Canterville ghost met.
Answers
1. The narrator is sarcastic.
2. The ghost is scared.
3. It's in the textbook.
Answer:
1. Ans. The narrator calls the ghost brave in a mocking way since the ghost was frightened by the another ghost and had run off.
2. Ans. He chooses to visit during the day since he had been frightened the last time he saw the other ghost at night.
3. Ans. The second ghost was horrible and monstrous as a madman‘s dream! Its head was bald and burnished; its face round, and fat, and white; and hideous laughter seemed to have writhed its features into an eternal grin. From the eyes streamed rays of scarlet light, the mouth was a wide well of fire, and a hideous garment, like to his own. On its breast was a placard with strange writing in antique characters, some scroll of shame it seemed, some record of wild sins, some awful calendar of crime, and, with its right hand, it bore aloft a falchion of gleaming steel.
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