Sharon Creech's Pleasing The Ghost

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You might think ghosts aren’t real. Well, that’s only because you can’t see them. 9-year-old Dennis can. In Pleasing The Ghost by Sharon Creech, Dennis has had multiple encounters with ghosts. Sometimes strangers and sometimes relatives. They usually leave at some point, but one doesn’t. Dennis’s uncle- Uncle Arvie. Uncle Arvie knows there will be some struggles along the way that only a living person could get through. This makes me think that the allegory of this story is that with the help of others, it’s easier to accomplish something. An example of this is when Billy Baker (a bully) gets in the way. Even though Billy can see ghosts like Dennis, he thinks Uncle Arvie is Dennis’s dad and not a ghost. Billy is pretty violent and is constantly

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