SuitabookThe Silent Witness
Mary Francis Shura
- Reading
- Read together if useful, pausing to check how the ghost and the need to lay her to rest feel to the reader. The ending and the resolution of the secret are not established here.
- Themes
- Second sight and belief: Blossom tells Alexander that he has second sight; he later sees and speaks with a ghost. The plot gives Alexander’s supernatural experiences practical significance, but the broader treatment of belief is unclear.
- The ghost’s past: A young Creole girl from the Civil War era haunts a barn; Miles knows the secret story behind her and says her body must be dug up and laid to rest. The plot includes a mystery about the girl’s past and her burial, but the meaning or treatment of her past is unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The plot includes a ghost, a threatened trolley-car wreck and the need to dig up and lay a body to rest. The degree of detail or frightening intensity is not established.