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The Last Sentence 'Whispers From The Grave'
The last sentence “The WInchester House stands as a haunting monument to a broken heart” of the article “Whispers From The Grave” by Scholastic Scope, can mean many things. A possible meaning for this sentence is that the Winchester House is very popular and many people go to visit it because of its past with ghost haunting it and how Sarah Winchester was very sad and depressed while living in that house from her daughter and husband dieing. “But Sarah’s happiness was short-lived. Just 42 days after she was born, Sarah’s daughter suddenly died. Sarah was still mourning her child 10 years later, when william died of tuberculosis” (Scholastic Schop 6). To further explain, that the Sarah had her daughter die as a newborn and she lost her husband
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