The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
By: Emma Prill- Author: Mary Downing Hahn- block 2
Summery
12 year old Florence leaves an orphanage to her new home at Crutchfield Hall to live with her great uncle. The house is haunted by Florence's cousin Sofia who died the year before. Sofia wants Florence to help her restore to life by someone else die in her place.
setting
The setting is at Ctutchfield Hall.
Top 3 main characters
Florence
girl in middle;;;
Florence is a 12 year old girl that arrives at Crutchfeild Hall to live with her Uncle. She sees Sophia and is scared of her. She is very curious and gets in trouble a lot.
Sophia
girl on left;;;
Sophia is the sister to James who died the year before Florence arrived at Crutchfield Hall. She says she is more prettier than anyone. She haunts Crutchfield Hall and wants to kill James.
James
boy on right;;;
James is the brother of Sophia. James was the reason Sophia was killed,but he didn't mean it. He has a charm above his door that makes it to where Sophia can't come in. No one but Uncle and the maid are aloud in. Aunt doesn't want James to be disturbed,because he is ill.
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Symbolizm
The dress is important because it was Sophia's best dress and it was in the attic in a chest full of all Sophia's things. Florence found the chest and took the dress out. Sophia gave Florence the dress. When Aunt saw the dress on Florence she was very mad and Florence burned the dress in her fire place.
The reason I loved this book
I loved this book because, it was scary and entertaining. It had lots of detail so I could have an image in my mind. It was intense and gave my the hebi jebis,and those are the kind of books i like.
Location: crutchfield hall