Good Guys
This person was just an illusion and was represented by the house. This person took the lives and souls of children.
Who is Mr. Hood.
This is how Harvey was feeling in the beginning of the story.
What is bored?
"The Prisoners" who are being held at the lake in the form of fish.
What is children?
Cook, Cat, and Coffin is an example of which figurative language?
What is alliteration?
This character "seemed to have slug blood," is "grossly fat," and this is the only female "bad guy."
Who is Marr?
This cat dies by pulling a boiling pot of water over on himself. This is the cat with a question mark for a tail.
What is Clue Cat?
What is being described--Man with scrawny frame, yellowish skin who wore a pair of spectacles and a huge grin.
Who is Rictus?
What does Harvey wish for at his first Christmas in the Holiday House? Why does he wish for that?
What is an ark? Because he lost it when he was a child.
This person was the person at the end of the story who walked up to Harvey in the field and said he knew about Mr. Hood.
Who is Lulu's husband?
This character was scrawny with yellowish skin and a big grin and says, "I stole a little piece of the old man's magic, just in case he ever got tired of me and tried to put me out of my misery."
Who is Rictus?
Harvey's parent's reaction when he came back home after being missing for 31 years.
What is surprised/shocked?
What is being described:
"Harvey looked up and saw the swooping beast coming for him with jaws wide enough to snap him in pieces"What is Carna?
Name one theme of the Thief of Always and give an example of why you think that.
(answers can vary)
This person has "a face like a rolled-up ball of cobwebs . . ." and is the only person in the house that wears an apron. This person did almost all of the cooking.
Who is Mrs. Griffin?
After a gentle touch, this winged-beast character shudders and flies into a thousand pieces.
What is Carna?
How Wendell felt when the vampire bat came toward him.
What is afraid?
What is being described here: "Harvey saw a large wooden thing that looked like a sleeping beast. As he got closer, he saw a padlock"
What is a coffin?
"There--hanging between the bare branches of the trees--was a moon as wide and as white as a dead man's smile" is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is simile?
"A fin grew from her bent and scaly back, and her legs had almost fused together. Her arms had become short and stubby, her fingers webbed," describes this character.
Who is Lulu?
This is what Marr was dreaming of when Harvey tricked her into disappearing and dying.
What is nothing?
What is being descried here-- The waters were spiraling down into the earth and the wind began to pick up heavily.
What is the vortex?
"The great grey beast of February had eaten Harvey Swick alive" is an example of which type of figurative language?
What is personification?