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A man rents a room in the narrator’s childhood home and then dies by suicide. Explain how this causes a rift in the human world, and why.
While visiting an alternate world with Lettie, the narrator makes a mistake, and an evil entity gets into his world through his foot. What is the mistake? How does the entity sneak into the boy’s life? Is this the boy’s fault or someone else’s? Explain with evidence from the text.
List three clues in the story that imply the Hempstocks aren’t who they appear to be, bar them literally saying so. What do those clues suggest they are?
By Neil Gaiman
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