Spirited Away

Prologue-Part 1

Reading Check

1. A bouquet of flowers from her friend (Prologue)

2. Her flowers start dying. (Prologue)

3. Red (Part 1)

4. An abandoned amusement park (Part 1)

5. Train whistle (Part 1)

Short Answer

1. Chihiro is miserable and skeptical, and she clearly misses her old friends and school. She does not have any interest in finding out about the new place and rejects it. (Prologue)

2. Chihiro’s parents seem to dismiss her feelings and downplay her reaction to moving. (Prologue)

3. Chihiro sees some discarded Hokora (shrines) lying on the side of the road. Her mother tells her that some people think spirits live inside them. (Part 1)

4. A gust of wind followed by the appearance of the Dosojin statue (actual term not needed for answer) spook Chihiro; she spotted it in the woods beforehand, and it seems to be communicating something. (Part 1)

Part 2

Reading Check

1. Pigs (Part 2)

2. A bathhouse (Part 2)

3. Haku (a boy dressed in white who seems to know magic; name not yet revealed) (

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