long best with Breige. Breige was Emer’s other sister. Breige was annoying at times in the book. One exapmle of this is when Breige was making fun of Emer because Emer had seen a ghost and Briege didn’t believe it and only thought it was dumb. However, certain parts in the book showed that she was also very caring, such as when she was worried about Emer because Emer was looking very pale after she saw the ghost. Breige also showed that she really cared about her sister when they went into Mr.Bannon’s hidey-hole to try to find the other hidden chambers. Emer’s Mom was also in the book. She was not described well, but Emer thought of her as a good mother and is was also mentioned that she was always working late because the father was dead. I thought that when the mother did appear in the book she was very strict, but a little nicer than Kathleen. Mr.Bannon was an old man that everyone thought was crazy because he didn’t talk to adults that much, but Emer thought he was perfectly normal. Mr.Bannon also helped Emer out a lot. An example of that is when Emer’s chickens were sick. He told her to clean out the chicken coop and he took the sickest chickens away from the rest so that all the chickens wouldn’t get sick. The main conflict in this book was Emer trying to figure things out about the ghost. I think this because Emer wanted to help the ghost,but she didn’t know what the ghost wanted. No one believed her except for Breige at the end of the book. This conflict was resolved when Emer discovered the meaning of the design that the fortune teller gave her, and she found the chalice.I thought this was a very good book, because the author wrote it in such a way that it was difficult to put down. The author described things well, and I could picture the things in my mind. An example of this is when the author was describing the ghost. She wrote, “ She was grey against the wh...
