THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
--Oscar
Wilde
The main characters of the story are Ghost,
Mr. & Mrs. Otis, Virginia, Washington.
The story is about a ghost which lives in a
house. The ghost tries to scare everybody who live in the house. But everything
gets changes when a family from America decided to live in the house. The
family already knows that there is a ghost in the house, but they don’t believe
in ghost. The family consists of the parents and their two children. The head
of the family is Mr. Hiram B. Otis. The ghost plays many tricks to scare the
family but they don’t work. The ghost does the same thing that he had done to
all families that lived in the house before. He thought that the family will get scared of him and
will move out of the house. The family plays the same game and the ghost is
scared by them. The only daughter in the family, Virginia is a kind-hearted
girl. She became friend with the ghost. One day, the ghost says that he wants
to sleep because he has not taken rest for three hundred years. Next day, he
takes Virginia along with him to the Garden of Death. Finally, the family finds
the skeleton in a room. It was of Sir Simon(Owner of villa). The skeleton was
finally buried with peace.
