Evil In The Graveyard Book

An example of a “good” people would be, a well respected family in town with the last name Nurse. Both Rebecca and Francis Nurse were kind hearted citizens who always gave a helping hand to other people in the village. Not one bad thing circled around their name. In the end of the play, Rebecca Nurse was accused of witchcraft and because of the goodness of her heart and love for God, did not falsely confess to the acts of witchcraft. She was portrayed as a good hearted character throughout the entire play. On the other hand, Reverend Parris was considered to be one of the “evil” characters for the main reason that he was a man concerned with his position and reputation in the community. Those in a position of power, were greatly interested in perpetuating the power of the court and the church. Parris refused to listen to any opposing views even though he knew that falsely accusing folks of witchcraft was wrongful and unjust of him. The “grey” median between “good and evil” would be described as the character Proctor. He was also a well respected man in the town of Salem who committed the crime of adultery, causing himself damnation for “evil” doings. Although Proctor ends up blackening his name by confessing, he releases his sins and becomes “good” once again. As stated before, the difference between “good and evil” isn’t a black and white

Shirley Jackson emphasizes appearance vs. reality in the short story “The Possibility of Evil” because looks can be deceiving. Looks can shape how we think of people and in reality they could be the opposite.

In “October Tale,” Neil Gaiman is trying to portray an old Genie who would ordinarily grant three wishes to whoever rubs the lamp, but rather than granting wishes, forms a vital bond with a woman named Hazel who already has everything she needs. Love is vital because it develops on the determination you have when finding the right one that feels the same way you do. Firstly the Genie and Hazel both mentioned how everything didn’t turn out to be a perfect or normal life, how life isn’t perfect and it has sharp turns. “I told Hazel about my youth as a djinn”(107), and the “Bad days of the Djinn wars”(107). Furthermore “She told me how both her parents have been killed in the same plane crash”(107). When facing through

“The path to hell is paved with good intentions,” says an English Proverb. This can also be seen as true about literature set in the 17th century all the way to characters living in the turn of the 19th century. Those were simpler times when people believed in the devil, witches and vampires as explanations because there were so many things they didn’t understand. Characters in these strict moral times would try to do what they thought would be for the best only to have the situations turn out worse than before. The irony in these works of literature is that a lot of times, good intentions ended badly.

James Joyce emerged as a radical new narrative writer in modern times. Joyce conveyed this new writing style through his stylistic devices such as the stream of consciousness, and a complex set of mythic parallels and literary parodies. This mythic parallel is called an epiphany. “The Dead” by Joyce was written as a part of Joyce’s collection called “The Dubliners”. Joyce’s influence behind writing the short story was all around him. The growing nationalist Irish movement around Dublin, Ireland greatly influences Joyce’s inspiration for writing “The Dubliners”. Joyce attempted to create an original portrayal of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. The historical

In David Sedaris’ “Nuit of the Living Dead”, we at first see only a story about a slightly strange night at a home off the beaten path where our author lives. Through the first person narrative, there is much to learn of David and his perspective and with this comes an understanding of how we ourselves perceive things. Context is perhaps the greatest tool used to show us these mental processes. We are given the benign details with David’s explanation of them and then reflect on those details from another point of view without context yet still coming from the narrator himself. This very simple and elegant short story illustrates that things are not always what they seem and it ranges from things that go bump in the night, the reasons for those bumps, and to the assumptions we make when we do not have all of the information.

When a mentor gives you lemons, you make the lemonade. In the book The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, the person most important in Bod Owens’s life is his mentor, Silas. Bod Owens did not have the average teenage life; he was raised by two dead parents who live in a graveyard, and was not allowed to leave the graveyard unless his parents gave him permission. The lady on the Grey is the symbol of death that mentors Silas, which gives her and Silas a similar “job” in their afterlife.

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

The film, “Night of the Living Dead”, is a horror movie taking place in the late 1960’s and set in a small town in Pennsylvania. The beginning scene opens with siblings, Barbara and Johnny arriving at a cemetery after three long hours of driving. Barbara and Johnny went to the graveyard to visit their late father's grave and as they were leaving Johnny decided to tease Barbara saying “They’re coming for you Barbara… look, there comes one of them now”. While they were walking to their car Barbara figured she would apologize to the man for what her brother had said but as she was about to speak the “man” grabbed her. When Johnny saw, he quickly ran to them and pulled the zombie away from his sister but he was then attacked by the living dead. During the struggle, Johnny fell and died from hitting his head on a gravestone. The zombie then went after Barbara in a long pursuit that only ended when she came up to an abandoned house. While in the house, Barbara saw more of the zombie people heading toward the house and found a dead body. Startled by the horrifying sight, Barbara ran outside in a hurry and almost ran into a man that was walking into the house. This man, Ben, had run out of gas and was forced to stop at the house to seek shelter. Ben quickly grabbed Barbara and got them both into the house to safety. After getting rid of the three zombies that were after them, Ben boarded up the windows and doors as soon as possible. Barbara decided to tell Ben what had happened to her before they met. Ben decided to turn on the radio and get the news of what was going on around them. In hope of finding something useful, Ben looked in a closet and found a gun and ammunition. As Ben was looking in the closet, two men, Harry Cooper and Tom, emerged from the basement, while Helen, Harry's wife, and Judy, Tom's girlfriend, remained to watch over Helen’s Injured daughter. After fighting about where the safest place to be was, they all came to the conclusion that Harry would go back down to the cellar while Tom and Judy stayed upstairs. A little while after, Harry and his wife Helen went back upstairs and the group got the TV going to get an update on what was happening. After they watched the telecast, the group cooperated

“Night of the Living Dead” was the first of its kind. The movie was extremely advanced for the time it was released, which was 1968. It paved new ways towards an advanced style of horror films and opened doors up to more racial representation in the film industry. The film, for example, inspired future movie directors to chase after the zombie cult classic feeling. Zombies were such a hit in Hollywood, and they didn’t cost much to create. A little latex and fake blood could go a long way in old movies.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman has proven to fit within the Gothic definition of Harmon’s, Handbook to Literature. Gaiman’s novel has elements of “magic, mystery, and chivalry,” (Harmon 220). There were ghosts who would reveal themselves on one special night and a baby who is granted the ability to see and interact with ghosts. In chapter 2, one of the ghosts that live in the graveyard explains some of the special abilities that the child is granted, unlike other living humans. He explains, “While you are here, you can see in the darkness. You can walk some of the ways that the living should not travel. The eyes of the living will slip from you,” (Gaiman 38). These special abilities give him a sense of safety while he is in the graveyard.

Greed, lust, gluttony, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. The seven deadly sins have been around since the Middle Ages and established by the Roman Catholic Church to describe the characteristics of evil within all of us. But what the church didn’t realize was that these traits do not randomly show up over time, they are first present when humans come into the world through birth. While religion provides us with the moral concept of what the basis of evil is using the seven deadly sins. What we eventually conceptualize it as relates to our own well-being according to our place in society. Proving that while society creates the foundation for “being good” or “evil” our own individual actions show that society is not at fault for the foolish actions that we are naturally tempted to do by our own accord.

In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Marquez employs the motif of flowers within the novel to illustrate the role of women within a Latin American society; the cultural and symbolic implications of this associate flowers with purity, victimization, gender barriers, and deceit. In doing so, Marquez creates a microcosm of Latin America, exposing the core of Columbian culture and society with all its aspects such as ethnicity, and social norms and conventions that led to a series of insecurities and poverty in the community, and its affect on the role of women. The cultural context of this novel must first be considered before examining the symbolic importance of flowers.

Fictional novels, in this case, The Graveyard Book, can teach us about ourselves. A fictional novel is imaginary and is not necessarily based true facts. The Graveyard Book was published in 2008 by Neil Gaiman. This book is about a normal boy named Nobody Owens but is known to his friends as Bod. Bod is raised in the graveyard by educated ghosts, a solitary guardian who is neither living nor dead and is under attack by the Man Jack. Two ideas that have been demonstrated throughout the novel is that life is full of endless possibilities and relationships are a key part of our identity. This novel teaches us about ourselves and the experiences that we have with our relationships with other people in our life with

Dark Romantic literature examines conflicts between good and evil, and the psychological repercussions of sinning and how they affect a character's guilty conscience. Furthermore, how a character's madness contributes to a Dark Romantic story. My story, Thanatos, is Dark Romanticism because it displays all three of these elements.