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Act 2 of The Ghost Mother

Act Two

Crisis – Becca is refuses to move onto the underworld and wants to stay and take care of her family regardless of the consequence.

  • Death appear again to take Becca to the spirit world.
  • Death also told Becca that she is killing Rose by possessing her.
  • Becca still refuses to go and insist that she needs to take care of her family.

Struggle – Becca abandon Roses life to take care of her family while they resent her.

  • Becca goes shopping to buy foods to make dinner for her husband and son.
  • Becca meets Jill at the shop. Jill recently lost her husband.
  • Becca and Jill bond over coffee and promise to meet up again.
  • Becca take dinner she made to her husband and son but they have not yet come home.
  • Becca let herself in using the spare key hidden in a fake rock in the garden.
  • Max their dog recognises that Rose/Becca is a ghost and barked at her loudly.
  • Becca put Max in the backyard but he continues to bark while she’s in the house.
  • Becca’s husband came home and wonder how Rose/Becca got into the house.
  • Becca’s husband also thought it was strange that Max was barking as he normally likes Rose and usually doesn’t bark non-stop.
  • Becca said that she told Rose about the key.  
  • Husband comment that her cooking reminded him of Becca’s cooking.
  • Son is angry and refuses to talk to Becca. He thinks Rose/Becca is trying to take Becca’s place.
  • Becca cleans up after dinner and put everything away just the way she always had.
  • Becca’s husband comment that she’s exactly like Becca.
  • Becca meet up with Jill. Jill tells Becca that she’s been seeing her dead husband.
  • Becca confide to Jill that she is a spirit and is possessing someone Rose’s body.
  • Jill ask Becca what the purpose was.
  • Becca said she just wants to take care of her family.
  • Jill said that she understands but Becca is not being fair to Rose by possessing her body.
  • Becca became angry with Jill and said to her that it wasn’t fair that she died early leaving her husband and son behind.
  • Becca left and stopped talking to Jill for a while.
  • Becca received call from Rose’s boss saying that if she does not come into work she’ll be fired. Becca rudely replied to Rose’s boss saying that she will not be coming back to work.
  • Becca continues to visit her husband and son regularly. However, her son still refuses to talk to her.
  • Becca is becoming angry with her son for refusing to talk to her. She thinks that he is being ungrateful after everything she’s done for him.
  • Becca’s husband feels guilty as he is starting to have feeling for Rose so soon after Becca’s death.
  • Becca’s husband started to avoid her and ask her to stop coming over. This make Becca even more angry.
  • When Becca becomes angry things fall and break, glass shatter.
  • Becca contacted Jill to tell her about the strange event with glass shattering and things breaking.
  • Jill said that the longer she stays in the living world the angrier and malevolent she will become. Until she becomes a poltergeist and no longer recognises the people she loves.
  • Becca was brushing her hair one afternoon when a big clump of hair falls out.
  • Becca call Jill to tell her about her hair.
  • Jill tells Becca that as a ghost inhibiting a living person’s body she’s drawing out the body’s life force. Becca will need to leave Rose’s body soon or Rose will die.

Epiphany – Becca realised that Rose’s body is dying and she still has not said goodbye to her family.

  • Becca needs to say goodbye to her family as she does not want to kill Rose.
  • Becca wants to organise a final dinner for her husband and son.