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The Transferred Ghost

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Sae Koyama
J2 Language Arts
Mr. Valera
Discussion Questions - “The Transferred Ghost” by Frank R. Stockton
1.I think that there must be a sort of meeting hall for all the unassigned ghosts to be able to go, and there, there is a bulletin board with all the departed peoples’ names, and requests for someone to become their ghost. I imagine that from then on, it is just a matter of who would get the assignment slip first, so that there is a sort of administrator who manages things so that ghosts can get a position smoothly. I think that such ghosts exist so that humans can seem to live on, albeit in a rather strange form inhabited by something else entirely. Maybe the ghosts were there to take place of a hole which would most certainly open as a result of a person’s death in the lives of those around the deceased person. Even if ghosts don’t come from people, I believe that souls still exist in people. Immortal doesn’t always have to be taken to mean living forever in a literal way. I’ve always believed that souls are there to let people feel. Anger, sadness, joy, happiness - they are all emotions that let us feel that we are human beings. As long as people don’t become numb to emotions and live true to them, souls will still exist forever in ourselves. A …show more content…

The part which was most funny for me was near the end, when the narrator is talking to the ghost and says “I cannot bear to think of him!” aloud and the situation gets awkward as Madeline doesn't know about the ghost at all. It was such an tricky position for the narrator to be in, as he runs the risk of exposing the ghosts’ identity, but what really made me laugh was when he says the name of a rival; I had expected the narrator to give up and tell Madeline the truth. His clumsiness truly surprised me, as he really should have known better; the ghost had already explained to him that he would be the only one able to see the spectre. I think his ungainliness in that tight spot was what tickled my sense of

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