Reading Response #7

A conflict in the story is when Bob and Barb Buick were trying to sell the house that Turk and Sydney were living in to the Crabstock family.  It started when Sydney over heard Bob and Barb talking to Mr. Crabstock about the house and why they should get it while caddying for them.

Quickly right after they finished their game of golf, Sydney told Turk and had to run to the house to retrieve their stuff. They were almost finished getting all their stuff when suddenly the front door opened and in walked the Crabstock family. Sydney and Turk took their stuff and hid down in the basement behind the furnace and crouched there, just listening to the family moving around the house above them, they could hear every word with the parents bickering and the bratty kids running and screaming around the house. Sydney found this situation all amusing while Turk didn’t.

The two kids were wrestling in a room upstairs so close to the air vent they could hear them breathe, and that is when Sydney got a idea “She cupped her hands around her mouth and made a low ghost-like moan directly into a vent. ‘Whhhooooooooooo...’” (p.159)The kids didn’t notice at first so she tried again and again.

“‘What is THAT?’ the kids cried together with utter terror.

“Sydney made her voice sound like a ghost in a horror movie.’i am the ghost of the vanishing farmer! You must leave this place at once! WHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!’” (p.159)

The kids started crying to their parents about a ghost. They of course didn’t believe them. The wife went in to investigate while Mr. Crabstock was scolding the children. Sydney moned the same thing in the vent again. “Whatever was making that sound, Doris Crabstock knew it wasn’t the wind. She had a powerful sense that there was some kind of presence in the house. (And as you know, she was right about that)”(p.161)

“It was pure fluke that Shep McParlain Jr, ,chose that very moment to drop by and visit Sydney and Turk. It was also a pure fluke that he just happened to be wearing a straw farmers hat and carrying a chicken.” (p.161), You can see where this is going. The family fled from the house with terror convinced that the house was haunted. They jumped in the car and sped off.

If Sydney and Turk were caught, they would probably be forced to call their dad and explain to everyone what happened or they could of been sent directly to an orphanage but I’m not so sure that is how it works.