Ghost Boys

2. Theme: Optimistic state of mind, giving power to someone to do something.
5. Inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair.
7. Theme: Just behaviour or treatment.
9. Name of the main character.
11. Theme: Treating people with sympathy and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.
13. Lack of fairness or justice.
14. Daughter of the officer responsible for the shooting.
15. Theme: A type of relationship.
21. Beliefs or assumptions about a group of people based on characteristics they share, rather than on their individual differences.
22. Expressing a command.
24. Friend of main character, person who got the toy gun.
25. Ghost boy seen by main character and the officer's daughter.

1. When a speaker is talking directly to an individual or group.
3. A recurring idea.
4. Theme: The repetitive, intentional hurting of one person or group by another person or group where there is an imbalance of power.
6. Theme: Use of firearms to inflict a gunshot wound.
8. Theme: Prejudice, discrimination against a person or people based on their racial or ethnic group.
10. Person responsible to shooting the main character.
12. Theme: Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
16. Theme: synonym of truthfulness.
17. Theme: Intense sorrow caused by someone's death.
18. Theme: Doing this can help shape the future.
19. When certain word choices are made to evoke an emotional response.
20. Shifts back and forth in time from past to present.
23. Theme: A special right, advantage or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.