The night the ghost got in!!!

-JAMES THURBER

SUMMARY(PART 1)

• There was a big hullabaloo on November 17, 1915 because there was sounds coming from the author’s house and no one knew whether there were ghosts or burglars.

• The sounds began when all were asleep and the author was in bath, sounds of steps were heard and the creaking of stairs too.

• The author woke up his brother Herman who looked scared to hear the steps continuing to sound.

• The author slammed shut the door at the stairs top.

• The sound of the slamming of the door woke up the authors mother who thought there were burglars in the house.

• Mother suggested, that they call the police but since the phone was downstairs, she decided to request the neighbour to do the same.

• all at the neighbour’s house were asleep, hence she threw her shoe at the neighbour’s window to wake him up.

• The neighbour was Mr.Bodwell and his wife.

SUMMARY(PART 2)

• mother’s throwing the shoe woke up Mr.Bodwell who was irritated and angry. Slide 8

• She shouted out that there were burglars in the their house.

• At first he misunderstood thinking that the burglars were in his house.

• However later Mr.Bodwell understood and called the police over to the author’s house.

• The police came at once. The police had to break through the thick glass door.

• They looked at everything and questioned everyone.

• They could find no one. They searched all over and disturbed the entire house. They found a zither and one of the cops began strumming away it.

SUMMARY(PART 3)

• The policemen found nothing in the house. They heard grandfather turning over on his bed in the attic and rushed up.

• Grandfather was in a make believe world and thought that these men were general meade’s men.

• He jumped at the men, cursed them, grabbed a gun from one of policemen and shot at the man on his shoulder.

• The author and his family went up to the attic to rescue the policemen and locked the door with grandfather inside the attic.

• The policemen could not find any culprit. One of them looked at the author suspiciously since he had worn his mother’s blouse.

• The author then explained that the sounds they had heard were not made by burglars but by

the ghosts!!!!!!!!

• In the morning, grandfather inquired about the noise made by the policemen and wished to know what they had been doing in their house the previous night?????

QUESTIONS

• Q.1. Why did the author slam shut the door?

• q.2. why couldn’t the author’s mother call the police?

• Q.3. What woke up Mr.Bodwell?

• Q.4. How did the policemen managed to enter the house?

• Q.5. What type of action did the policemen start taking once they entered the house?

• Q.6. Why did one of the cop look at the author suspiciously?

• Q.7. Consider about different ending in the story. A twist at the end!!

THANK YOU!!!HOPE, HAVE A GOOD SLEEP

AT NIGHT!!!