Deal With a Ghost - Week of 09/30/13

Deal With a Ghost by Marilyn Singer

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A character that is like me is Deal. I would say out of all the other character in the story, Deal and I would be the most alike. One reason is because we both like to keep things to our self. In the story, Deal is very self reserved, she thinks a lot but keeps it all to herself. On page 16-17 Deal starts to hang out with new people at her school and she can be very judgmental. She has a lot of different feelings, for example she is nervous, and excited. When she gets home from school she doesn't really talk much to her Grandmother. I can relate to that because whenever I'm in school, I like to be reserved, and not really show people what I'm thinking or how I feel. Deal and I are both secretive too, we both can keep secrets with others, but mostly with ourselves.

Deal is also a girl with determination. When Deal tell herself or others that she is going to accomplish something, she does it, no matter how hard she needs to work for it. Throughout the second chapter, Deal makes it a responsibility to open and know what is inside her grandmother's metal box that was thrusted into the back of her closet. The box was locked so she tried to open it with a bobby pin but it bent, when she was going to get tweezers she heard her grandmother come back from getting groceries. She put it back and now she tells herself that she needs to open that box and see what secrets hide in it. I believe I can have a lot of determination, just like Deal whenever I put my head into doing something, I have to do it or I will feel like I let myself down.


The main character and I are also alike because we both over think. On page 25, Deal is alone in her kitchen and she starts to over think. She starts to over think about her school, and how people say it is haunted, she over thinks on her crush and how she could get him to like her. I tend to do that a lot, during school or at home, whenever I'm alone I tend to over think things. Sometimes it's over homework, clothes, maybe even celebrities! Deal and I both try to make the best out of situation and maybe that is why we both over think and try to come up with solutions to any of our conflicts.
Deal and I are both alike in many ways and throughout the story, I know we will just be more a like.