Why does the narrator hesitate to be a partner to Laura Hinkle during the Ouija Board Party?

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Helen, the ghost, had asked the narrator to influence his friends to stop using the Ouija board. It was only on this condition that Helen promised to help the narrator to write ghost stories. If Helen sees him now himself trying to communicate ghosts through Ouija board, he fear show and what she would do to him. That is why the narrator was reluctant to be a partner to Laura Hinkle during the Ouija Board party.

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(a) What genre of stories does Jenkins want the narrator to write? Why?

(b) Does the narrator like writing ghost stories? Support your answer with evidence from the story.

(d) Why had Helen, the ghost been helping the narrator write ghost stories? Why was she going on strike? What condition did she place for providing continued help?

(e) How does the ghost undermine the narrator's faith in his ability to write ghost stories?

(f) Why does John want the ghost to disappear before his wife appears on the scene? What impression of his wife's character do you form from his words?

(g) Why does the narrator hesitate to be a partner to Laura Hinkle during the Ouija Board Party?

(h) What message does the ghost convey to the group that had assembled in the narrator's house? What is their reaction to the message?

(i) Do you agree with the narrator calling the assembly of women "manipulators?" Give reasons.

(j) Why is John's wife angry? What does she decide to do?

(k) Why does John wish he were dead?

(l) When confronted by Lavinia about his flirtations over the Ouija Board, John insists that 'the affair was quite above-board, I assure you, my love'. Bring out the pun in John's statement.

(m) John's apprehensions about his wife's reaction to her encounter with the ghost are unfounded. Justify.

The ghost wanted John to …………………………………………..

(a) stop his wife from using the Ouija board

(b) stop using the Ouija board himself

(d) stop people from using the Ouija board

Gladolia wishes to leave the narrator's house as ………………….

(a) she does not like the Ouija boards

(b) she is afraid of the ghost

(d) she likes Ouija boards and hoodoo

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