SWTWC: Chapters 15-24 Chapter 15: Mirror Maze – water images (mood) - “oceans of mirrors” –dangerous, never can tell what is coming in water, feel like you are drowning, bottomless, panicked -Charles Halloway “I’ll go there, thought Charles Halloway, I won’t go there. I like it, he thought, I don’t like it.” -Miss Foley – What does she see in the maze? What is her flaw/regret? **Only carnival attraction that can not be completely concealed in the daytime **What universal weakness does it play on? The Carousel: OUT OF ODER! KEEP OFF! -runs backward and so does the music -Mr. Cooger becomes 12 years old Why? Purpose?

Carousel – Broken? - runs backward and the music plays backward *Chopin’s Funeral March – symbolizes what? Time - - - gets younger (Purpose/Function?) Robert/Cooger – eyes? -frames Will and Jim as burglars and returns to the carnival -gets back on carousel forward and gets very old (he is dead) hair- “long, spidery, white” eyes- “mummified shut” Freaks in the sideshows of the carnival: Mr. Skeleton Mr. Electico Illustrated Man Monsieur Guillotine The Dwarf Vesuvio, the lava sipper The Dust Witch The Crusher

Mr. Crosetti? Chapter 20 – Charles and Will Why does Charles tell Will to be careful? Relationship? Will chases Jim to Miss Foley’s house Jim’s actions tell us what? the fight between Will and Jim: What are they fighting over or about? What does Jim want/desire? Robert frames the boys in order to … What does he think each boy will do? Police and Ambulance: symbols of safety/security -the boys feel responsible and want to save Cooger/Robert’s life -when found he is now Mr. Electrico (How is Mr. Dark keeping him alive?) (evil can exist only when there is other wickedness to support it)

*Charles Halloway – character chart *Mr. Dark – character chart Look at what he says, does, how he interacts responds to Will and Jim.