How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
He glanced over at Alice. She was leaning against one wall of the shed. "Poppy saw a ghost," she said. (5.35)
Zach always thought the Queen seemed pretty creepy, so he finds Poppy's ghost story pretty convincing. Do you?
Quote #5
"Her hair was blond, like the doll's, but it was tangled and dirty. She was wearing a nightdress smeared with mud. She told me I had to bury her. She said she couldn't rest until her bones were in her own grave, and if I didn't help her, she would make me sorry." (5.45)
Poppy saw the ghost of Eleanor in a dream. Was a ghost really trying to communicate with her as she slept? Or was it just a nightmare? And what about the fact that Zach dreams about her, too?
Quote #6
"Well, I'm not going to talk to the blonde, so you better forget that idea. I don't like the way she's looking at me. She's going to tell you that she'd never hurt anybody, but don't you listen. She'd hurt you all right. She'd hurt you and she'd like it." (6.59)
Tinshoe Jones, a man the trio meets on the bus, is probably drunk, mentally ill, or both. Still, it seems odd that he talks about the Queen like she's a real person.