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Question
Answer the following question briefly.
Does the narrator like writing ghost stories? Support your answer with evidence
from the story.
Solution
The narrator likes writing ghosts stories because a ghost story has been his first fiction. It has changed the narrator with the idea. The idea comes to the narrator out of nowhere when Jenkins wants the narrator to write, the story comes by itself and the narrator is always be able to dig one story.
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