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When Jesse makes a little voodoo doll of his mean, boring fifth-grade teacher, the doll comes to life and seeks revenge. "A Bullseye book."
My teacher ate my homework, which I thought was rather odd. He sniffed at it and smiled with an approving sort of nod. He took a little nibble — it’s unusual, but true — then had a somewhat larger bite and gave a thoughtful chew. I think he must have liked it, for he really went to town. He gobbled it with gusto and he wolfed the whole ...
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The Doll is the main antagonist in the Shadow Zone book, My Teacher Ate My Homework as well as the 1997 movie. The Doll is a voodoo doll that holds an evil spirit that must sacrifice a soul in order to cross over to our world.
The main character, Jesse Hackett, gets The Doll from a mysterious shop. The owner tells him that it's not for sale, but decides to give it to him anyway, knowing what trouble The Doll will make.
At first, The Doll acts like a regular doll, but Jesse starts to notice that whatever happens to The Doll happens to his hated Teacher, Mrs. Fink. When a hook gets caught to The Doll's arm, Mrs. Fink is wearing a cast, and when The Doll gets it's head hit, Mrs. Fink got hit in the head with a football and falls down the stairs. He then starts to find The Doll all dressed up as Mrs. Fink.
After The Doll bit Jesse's bully in the hall way and scared him off, Jessie declares him and the doll as partners for life. One day, when Jesse returns home, The Doll comes to life in the kitchen. She declares that she's a friend/partner and that she's in charge of him. She tells him that she plans to get rid of Mrs. Fink from Jesse's life for good. Jesse gets his friend to look at The Doll, but she acts like a regular doll and tricks Cody. Jesse puts The Doll in his closet, but his sister, Annabel, takes The Doll from his room to bandage her injuries. Jesse takes The Doll back into his room.
The next day, Jesse takes The Doll and tries to convince Cody about The Doll. Mrs. Fink arrives, now fully recovered since Annabel bandaged The Doll, to see what Jesse and Cody were arguing about. When she checks out Jesse's locker, The Doll lunges at Mrs. Fink and attacks her, hospitalizing her. Jesse and Cody go to the shop to return The Doll, but find that it's no longer there. When Jesse brings The Doll back to his room, she insisted that they chose each other and that with each passing moment, she can be apart of his world. She then promises him that she'll hurt his family if he goes against her. But still, when The Doll isn't paying attention, Jesse ties her up and throws her in the outside trash cans.
The next morning, Jesse believes that he's safe when he sees the garbage truck. But when he opens his closet, The Doll attacks him. Still threatening to harm his family, The Doll gets Jesse to do his chores and his homework. Because of this, Jesse's parents are proud of him and he's getting good grades at school. When Jesse goes to see Cody, The Doll demands for him to be back by 6. Jesse and Cody try to get help from Cody's spiritual sister, Geneva. She tells him that Mrs. Fink's soul is in danger and that the only way to save her is by destroying The Doll. Geneva says that she will do research. When Jesse gets home late, The Doll gets suspicious of him for being late and knows that he is plotting against her. So when Jesse's Mother is alone and is trying to fix the ceiling light, The Doll pulls the chair that she was standing on and makes her fall to the floor, injuring her and knocking her out. After taking her to the hospital, Jesse confronts The Doll where she states that she didn't do anything. Jesse doesn't believe her, but if he hits her, Mrs. Fink will be harmed.
When Jesse goes to visit Mrs. Fink at the hospital, she reaches out for him and weakly says to help her. Jesse, Cody, and Geneva manage to lock The Doll in Annabel's dollhouse with an amulet over it to ward off her evil spirit. Geneva manages to find a spell to defeat The Doll, but it can only be done at a specific place and time.
When Jesse makes a little voodoo doll of his mean, boring fifth-grade teacher, the doll comes to life and seeks revenge "A Bullseye book."
Oct 20, 2023 · Seemingly drawn to a doll that looks like his teacher, the shopkeeper ominously warns Jesse about the two finding each other for a reason before ultimately letting him take it home.
My teacher ate my homework, which I thought was rather odd. He sniffed at it and smiled with an approving sort of nod. He took a little nibble— it's unusual, but true— then had a somewhat larger bite and gave a thoughtful chew. I think he must have liked it, for he really went to town. He gobbled it with gusto, and he wolfed the whole thing ...
Feb 21, 1995 · Frustrated fifth grader Jesse fashions a voodoo doll of his boring, overbearing teacher as a joke, but when the doll comes alive to seek revenge, he finds there are worse things than too much homework.
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