1. 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?

2. 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

3. 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)

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