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A house where Jim and Will used to pick fruit from repeatedly gets called a theater, even though it isn't (Jim sees it as such)

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Usually Jim is pretty stoic, and this is the first time he acts so utterly desperate, begging Will to let him go to the theater like his life depended on it.

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Jim repeatedly asks Will if he's mad at him, hinting that he subconsciously thinks that he is since he went to the Theater without him.

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Even though it seems as though from our knowledge of Will's personality that he would be the most excited about a carnival coming to their town, he is the most skeptical out of him and Jim.

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The author repeatedly calls Will's mom 'Mom' despite this novel not being in 3rd person - it is impossible to be from Will's perspective.

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Despite loving both his parents and wanting to be close to them, Will stays in his room instead of going downstairs by the fire with his dad, showing more that his relationship with his father is strained and not very comfortable.

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Jim repeatedly says that he does not want kids in the future because they could hurt him and will just cause the world more problems.

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Despite his personality being naturally incredibly cautious since he is a perceptive observer, Jim takes a chance going against himself and is about to take the lightning rod of of his roof even though he put it there earlier just to watch the consequences of his actions.

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The lightning rod salesman keeps comparing the fake woman trapped in ice by the store window to advertise the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, to other artworks he's seen idolizing a woman's beauty.

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Despite seeming like he was not of the human world and did not possess the same thoughts and emotions as them, the lightning rod salesman is just as affected, if not more, than Will's dad by the coffin with the lady in it at the store window, and also feels a connection with her, but wanting to melt the ice unlike Will's father.

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Jim goes alone to a house where him and Will used to pick fruit but has now changed to a place where people have no shame and are in ecstasy because Will doesn't want to go because he doesn't understand why the people are doing what they do, Jim's enthrallment with it, and feels a bit shunned by Jim's behavior of seeing him as a stranger when it comes to the house (called the Theater by Jim). Afterwards, Jim comes back to Will walking home and they come cross a flyer for the carnival coming to town to Jim's curiosity and interest and Will's skepticism, and Jim asks Will if he is mad at him for leaving him to go to the theater to Will's denial. Will goes home to see his mother and father, and realizes that his dad also has the carnival flyer but seems nerved by it it. Will stays in his room despite wanting to stay downstairs, and hears his father burn the flyer and leave the house though his mother is asleep, unknowing. At Jim's house, Jim has a conversation with his mother of not wanting to have anythings that can have the potential to hurt him, but his mother saying that he is going to have to experience pain to grow in his life. Jim also contemplates taking the lightning rod of his room going against his cautious and observant personality just to change things up and watch the consequences of his decision.

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Point of View: third person omniscient
Style: Descriptive. The author is taking his time letting the reader get close and understand the characters and why they do what they do.

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I really love this section of this book because we get more insight into Jim's character than ever before, making me believe the author will have some in depth character development later on for him. The way how the author writes Jim and his mom's conversation is very descriptive, letting the reader paint a picture in their heads of what's going on and Jim's perspective and his mother's defense. I also think the writer is continuing to write Will's and his dad's strained and strange relationship very well, keeping me interested and in suspense with it being out of the ordinary and established before the book begins. I am also glad the lightning rod salesman has made another appearance, since the author has done such a great job establishing characters making me anxious for the plot to kick in instead of more dialogue heavy chapters.

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Will Will's father's relationship ever improve with him and his wife?

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Jim's personality type is exactly the same as Raven from the show Teen Titans, which I really enjoy

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Valise- a small traveling bag or suitcase.

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White paper danced in the air- figurative language, personification

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I wonder if Jim is going to hurt Will unintentionally with the way he seeming unconsciously keeps casting him out a stranger and burden when is comes to not understanding the theater.

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I predict that when the circus comes around with the Most Beautiful Woman in the world as a performer, she is going to have either a major role in the story as her own character, or become a deeply rooted motivator for others that may lead them to do bad things or work on themselves.

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I was surprised when Jim seemed to decide against leaving the lightning rod up on his roof, since I see this as an unhealthy decision for his character.

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I was confused when the lightning rod salesman claimed that that the previously thought to be empty coffin (only filled with ice) by Will's dad now had a fake woman placed in it.

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Miss Foley begins to call Mr. Cooger 'the nephew' instead of her nephew, showing that that she is starting to feel the need to distance herself from him because she knew he had set Jim and Will up with a fake robbery, and had put things in perspective that the nephew was trying to force her to go to the carnival by removing Jim and Will from her life and them persuading her not to.

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Miss Foley says that Mr. Cooger's proof about the carousel turning people younger again was 'proof but not proof', which contradicts itself. This shows that Mr. Cooger didn't really do a good job convincing Miss Foley about the carousel, and she wanted to go on it herself to prove it.

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Miss Foley comes to the realization for the first time that she was waiting for that night to go to the carnival with her nephew to test whether what he was saying about the carnival was true or not.

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Miss Foley recalls her time in the mirror maze and the feelings she felt within it for the first half of chapter, showing that is still playing vividly in her mind like how Jim's experience is.

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Will keeps making a point to Jim that he thinks he will leave him if he grew older unnaturally, because he believes that for a person to age well in their right mind, they must age like how we are supposed to. He thinks Jim would outgrow, and outrun him.

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Even though Will had been the main one wanting to apologize to Mr. Cooger for him turning so old, he yells at Jim now that they should never do that. Since his encounter with Mr. Cooger in the electric chair, Will has had a change of heart and feels a need to stay away from him.

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Jim asks Will repeatedly why anyone would believe what they say because the evidence that they had is gone and hard to believe, and Will just realizes this because he thought that the evidence they did have was believable.

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After Will reminds Jim about a preacher that said a month before 'everything in its time',to not try to skip years of your life and enjoy the present. Jim remembers this and seems to have a change of heart about his outlook he had been having on trying to speed up his life- that he should stop.

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Both Jim and Will keep calling Mr. Halloway sir, showing that they want to be in good peace with him so that he doesn't tell anyone else, trying to fake that they are guilty of robbing Miss Foley.

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Even though it seems as though Mr. Halloway wants to reach out and pat Will, as soon as Will says the words three o'clock in the morning, he stands paralyzed and is not able to do it because he has to much hatred for that specific time, showing that hatred even stops his love for his son from being physical.

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When Will is explaining to his father why he turned him and Jim in to the police despite them not being guilty of robbing Miss Foley, he expresses that he has no idea why she wants them to be guilty so badly, showing that Miss Foley's reasoning is kept under wraps well from him.

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Mr. Halloway assures Will that he'd still believe what him and Jim say even though Will thought that he wouldn't because of Miss Foley's account against them, showing Will the lesson that there will always be people who trust your word and will stick by you no matter what happens.

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Mr. Halloway keeps on referring to sin as a piece of cake, showing that he sees sin as human gratification for a short amount of time, and not worth doing so much.

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Before Will and his dad have a revealing conversation, they both feel like they don't want to have it at all by feeling like they want to know everything but nothing at the same time, which contradicts itself. They weren't ready for the truth yet, but it eventually came out for the better.

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Will comes to the realization that just because a person seems happy on the outside and smiling, does not directly mean a person is good because sin makes men happy. Avoiding sen makes us sad, so it's actually the opposite way around usually. Will thought that being happy meant being good, but his father changed his outlook to the opposite.

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Mr. Halloway reminisces about when he first met his wife and Will's mom in the library, said that she chose him there, and that they were both half bad people who made one good person-Will. This shows that Mr. Halloway sees people as half good and half bad, but when two people come together they make something great with both their good halves.

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Will and Jim keep describing the Dust Witch as blind over and over again despite making their point known already, showing that this was the main characteristic they noticed about her and is probably her most recognizable feature.

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The Dust Witch could have never to known where Will and Jim lived by someone giving information to her because no one could have, but she found their houses anyway by 'feeling their presence', which is a contradiction. This shows that the Dust Witch's other senses are very heightened besides sight.

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Will asks himself if the Dust Witch would continue to leave marks on Jim's house, and decides that if she does, he'll help Jim get the slime off every time. Will seems like he would be exhausting himself with this decision, but made the tough choice to sacrifice sleep to help his friend.

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Will and Jim both did not understand how the Dust Witch found their houses without having to know where they were by someone telling her or by sight. They came to the realization that she can sense people's energy and souls, and this may be important down the line so that they know how the Dust Witch goes about in order to stop her.

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The Dust Witch, in her confrontation with Will, keeps holding her breath, showing that she was fearful of Will having a bow and arrow, and felt even more terrified than usual because her senses are heightened.

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Will thinks that the exaggerated beating of his heart may force him out of the tree he was loosely holding onto despite that never being able to happen, showing that Will was becoming so paranoid in that moment where he didn't consider reason.

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Jim predicts that the Dust Witch knows that they are both cleaning up her trail and can sense everything they do even when they try to trick her, but Will ignores this and takes a risk to trick the Dust Witch into thinking the wrong house was Jim's. However, Jim was right and the Dust Witch knew all along what he was doing. This experience may lead Will to trust Jim's word more, and maybe he didn't listen to him because their trust is broken after Jim left him to go on the carousel.

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The Dust Witch started to fear Will the most when he snatched her hand away from her and held it. This shows that her perception of him was unskilled and juvenile, but was proved that he is incredibly resourceful and intelligent.

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Miss Foley blames Jim and Will from robbing from her despite her knowing different as she is on her 'nephew' 's side and reports it to the police and Mr. Halloway. Mr. Halloway believes that they are not guilty, though Jim and Will act like they are to avoid a bigger mess. Mr. Halloway and Will strengthen their bond by them both coming to understand the other, and then the Dust Witch marks a slime trail on Jim's roof which Jim and Will clean off. These chapters end with Will confronting the Dust Witch, snatching her hand, and watching her sink to the ground from the air with a hot air balloon while he climbs down from a tree safely. I enjoyed reading these chapters as I'm relieved to see Will and his father's relationship finally going on a good path, am interested to see more of Jim and Will's newfound dynamic with broken trust, and am glad Will is getting time to shine and show the audience how quick-witted he is with his confrontation of the Witch, which also was a great insight to how his character works, perceives things, and motivation for things.

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Why doesn't Will or his father want Will's mother to overhear their conversation about philosophy?

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Will's motivation and plan of action is very parallel to mine as I act on my own when the people I care about are in trouble. I have always had that instinct, however, I learned that choosing to do things alone gets pretty sad eventually, and help from others makes you more efficient at the job at hand anyway,.

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quiver- a container for holding arrows, darts, or bolts.

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I wonder if Jim and Wills' broken dynamic in terms of trust will be brought up later on in the story.

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I predict that Jim will mad at Will for confronting the Witch before even asking for his opinion on it first, because it seemed out of character for him to do that.

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I was surprised when Will snatched off the Dust Witch's hand, because it was so unexpected to me that that would one of the main results of his confrontation with her.

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I was confused whether Will snatched the Dust Witch's hand or not because it says that he felt her hand, snatched it, and she was horrified by it, but then it didn't seem like he still had it in his hand as he climbed down the tree he was in.

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This chapter was too short and straightforward to take notes on.

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This chapter was too short and straightforward to take notes on.

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Jim keeps doubting that the little girl him and Will stumble upon in the woods crying knows them despite her acting like she does by calling their names out, showing that when it comes to the carousel's danger, Jim wants to ignore the reality of it.

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The carnival is described as a now-totally-revealed and vanishing-forever land as Miss Foley makes her way to the carousel alone in the rain as soon as she heard the backwards music of it. This shows that even though the experience of going on the carousel was now revealed to Miss Foley after her desiring it for so long, the end result of her becoming a scared child was the opposite of what she wanted, taking away all her experience, making her crazy. Therefore, she would then see it as a vanishing-forever land now because it stripped away her sanity.

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Miss Foley, now transformed into a little girl, asks Will to find a girl who is lost as she ran never came back. This must've been hard for her to ask to him considering her being older than him really so she now has to be vulnerable and ask someone younger than her to find her old self, showing that she is also desperate.

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Will comes to the realization that the carnival hurts people by bringing them to a state they can't bounce back from because of credibility loss, for example. This could show that Will (and Jim since he told him) would be able to warn people better about the carnival later down the road since they know their trick.

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Will asks his dad to wish him luck and hesitatingly at first, he does. This shows that luck is a sentimental thing to both of them, and wishing Will luck shows that his dad has the upmost trust and faith in him at the end of the day (because he hesitated).

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I expected Will's dad to be way more worried about Will and Jim hiding out in an unknown location for a reason also unknown to him, but he eventually lets go of it and has a normal rest of his day, showing that his trust in his son supersedes any doubt and worry he might have completely.

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Will'd dad asks Will just who they are running from exasperatedly, showing that despite him acting like was fine with Will not being 100% honest with him, he is starting to get desperate for the truth.

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Will's dad tell Will to not go into hiding with Jim, but Will ignores him and just asks for luck on his journey instead. Will's dad was giving advice to Will about not doing dangerous things without letting people know or help-you must trust others to aid you. Will not listening to this could show that later he may come to face consequences of not relying or listening to others in regards to his goals, like getting himself hurt by not seeing an angle someone besides him could have.

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Both church bells and cymbals are described as colliding together while the carnival's parade passes through the town, showing that there is a parallel between pure things like church bells ringing to the dangerous carnival's cymbals as they both draw mass attention to themselves for opposite reasons.

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Wax dummies are described as quaking in fear, even though this is impossible because they are not alive. This shows that the 'freaks' in the carnival's parade were scanning the town incredibly creepily that it could even go to an exaggerated extent.

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The Dust Witch refers to Mr. Halloway as an old man despite him not being that aged, which shows the Dust Witch's innate ability to read the heart and souls of people because inside, Mr. Halloway is very mature for his age.

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Will's father's face is described as a pond where two dark stones sink without a ripple despite this being impossible, meaning that Will's father's face showed no signs of emotion or alarm whatsoever to the information he was getting from Mr. Dark.

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Mr. Tetley asks Mr. Dark if he lost something, what it is, and starts to guess the item. This shows that Mr. Tetley is familiar with people losing things under the sidewalk near his shop's grille, is helpful, and conversational despite not knowing Mr. Dark.

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In the forest the Dwarf finds Mr. Dark in, a whisper is described as good as a shout, despite a shout being clearer to hear and can be more widespread. This shows that when the Dwarf spoke, he spoke with such declaration that when he whispered to Mr. Dark, Mr. Dark could take his message as a shout.

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Will's dad meets Mr. Dark and the Dust Witch and sends them off away from Will and Jim's hiding place by lying. He also realizes the truth of Will and Jim's situation of hiding from the carnival people, still trusts them, and tells them to stop by the library at seven where he'll hopefully have a plan for their next course of action. The Dwarf tells Mr. Dark Will and Jim's hiding place under the sidewalk's grille by Mr. Tetley's cigar shop, and he rushes over there only to find them gone. I enjoyed this section of the book because Will's dad is growing more and more developed almost every chapter now, and its satisfying to watch him and Will's relationship progress because of this. I also liked reading this section of the book because of the high tensions when Will's dad lies to Mr. Dark and meets the Dust Witch, which caused me to have delightful suspense.

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Why did Mr. Dark think he went to far when he grabbed Will's dad's arm for putting cigarette smoke in the Dust Witch's face?

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Will's dad unknowingly drops his cigar through the gate Jim and Will were hiding in, showing that sometimes he is clumsy like how I am, but more often (though I have it under more control than years before).

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impertinent-not showing proper respect, rude.

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I wonder if Jim is going to try to go back to the Mirror Maze soon since he has not mentioned it in a while.

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I predict that Mr. Dark will be a bit more patient and lenient on Will and Jim if the Dust Witch is present.

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I was confused when Mr. Dark looked at the Dust Witch with love because his love for her was just introduced now.

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I was surprised when Will's dad told Mr. Dark his actual name when asked.

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Jim and Will both realize that the carnival's parade stopped in front of the cigar store's sidewalk grille where they were hiding once a little boy reached his hand under there, showing that they figured out that the 'freaks' are very observant and take all parts of their surroundings into account.

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Wills tells himself "I could just reach up...", but he doesn't when his dad passes by him and Jim, not seeing them. This shows that Will had an inner conflict with himself with wanting his dad's help and wanting to protect him.

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Will remembers young Miss Foley crying out to him and Jim under tree and how much she frightened them, showing that this encounter is vivid in his mind still because he wants to keep his promise to her.

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Will realizes that young Miss Foley told the 'freaks' him and Jim's names because she was vulnerable as she is a child and crying, and because she was utterly desperate for any shred of hope to make herself old again on the carousel thanks to the 'freaks.' This shows that Will is making quicker realizations of how the 'freaks' use people and can now combat the easier with him knowing their methods of using vulnerable states of people to get what they want.

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The Dwarf tells Mr. Dark where Will and Jim are and he goes to rush where he says they are hiding, showing that Mr. Dark really didn't know where they were hiding the entire time, and that he trusts the Dwarf's judgments as he ran to the spot pinpointed by him
immediately after he told him.

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Mr. Tetley asks Mr. Dark if he lost something, which reminds him of losing his lead on where Will and Jim are because they changed locations from underneath the sidewalk grille outside of Mr. Tetley's cigar shop which angers him, and so he eventually reluctantly responds nods.