Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Passage: The film starts off with Ellie and her two friends, Karl and Monica, participating in a big activity with their classmates called "the Hunt."  Ellie's brother Fletcher comes in and does a magic trick, but she is unimpressed and tells him to get out.  Fletcher, insulted, then steals an hourglass that Ellie's dad had given to her when she was little.  Her father is now deceased, and so the hourglass is very important to her.
Meanwhile, her mom Katherine Blake is preparing for her second marriage; her fiancé is named Mike. To make it even busier, she is catering her own wedding. When Ellie's friends leave she and Katherine fight and Katherine wishes that Ellie would take more responsibility for herself, while Ellie wishes her mother would understand what it is like to be her. When they start eating, Ellie asks her mother if she can go to the Hunt, but her mother says no because it scares her. When Fletcher's pet bunny goes missing and Mike says he will help find the bunny, Ellie snaps at Mike and says that he is not their dad.  Katherine demands that Ellie say sorry, but Ellie refuses to apologize. Katherine asks Mike to take Fletcher to school, and Ellie storms to her room. 
Question: Whose father is now deceased?
Output (English): Ellie.