Old Ghosts

"Old Ghosts" (panel 7, page 2, chapter 8).

Several of the past chapter have been showing the reader into the past lives of the characters of this novel. In this panel, Gibbons has illustrated children dressed up for Halloween. With the words "old ghosts" underneath it, readers first think of physical ghosts, the type you see on Halloween. However, Moore and Gibbons are actually alluding the the past lives of their characters. Each of them has done something that they are not proud of, and even if it happened in their childhood, still haunts them today.