Analysis Of The Graveyard Book

The text Burial Rites written by Hannah Kent focuses on the true story of the last woman to be executed in Iceland, her punishment for playing part in the murder of two men. She is sent to wait out her days on the farm of a district officer, Jón Jónsson with his two daughters and wife. Naturally, the family are horrified to have a convicted murderer in their midst. Borne from this, the family refuse to talk to her. A young man, Toti is appointed as her spiritual guardian in the last days of her life, throughout the text, he attempts to redeem her soul by asking her to recount her life.

“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

This book was a very good read. It was very eye opening. More than what I expected. It was a very well written book about the hidden lives of young

Charley Davidson books by Darynda Jones are not your typical mysteries. Instead, they are very interesting paranormals. I have never been a fan of paranormals, but these books have helped to change my mind. Charley is part detective and also the grim reaper. She sees dead people and she helps them to go towards the light and cross over once they are dead.

The theme of the book is although times can be difficult you have to continue and push forward and patience will have good results.

In Neil Gaiman’s, The Graveyard Book there are multiple themes that one could get from this story.This story is about a young boy. His family was brutally murdered, but he managed to escape in time. The young boy wandered off into a graveyard where he was taken under the wing of some friendly ghost. They then named him Nobody, later shortened to Bod, and raised him. Bod was finding himself on his amazing adventure through the graveyard, meeting new friends and learning to adjust to his abnormal life. In the end, all bonds tie together is the overall theme expressed throughout the book.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is about a boy who escaped his parent’s killer. He ran into a graveyard and his dead mom asked the ghosts would protect him. Mr. And Mrs. Owen took him in and named him Bod short for “nobody”. Bod had many qualities that made him who he was, he was curious, strong minded, and friendly. Bod was curious even when he was a baby.

The Graveyard Book written by Neil Gaiman is a fictional book published in 2008. The setting in the beginning of the story is in a house in the middle of the night, but it very quickly transitions to a graveyard. Towards the end, the setting is all throughout the town, in which the house and graveyard are located. This book is written in the third person point of view. Having a third person point of view helps the author tell the story the way he wants to by not showing an emotional connection with the protagonist but still making the reader develop positive emotions toward the protagonist.

The Graveyard Book is a horror story with bits of humor here and there. It is important to have humor in scary story so it can make the reader more at ease. Some examples of humor is when the man jack is murdering the family the baby escapes by climbing over his teddy bear and bumping down the stairs without being heard because his diaper muffled the sound. There are parts like this scattered throughout the book.

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Thou famished grave” and “Mindful of you” both include the themes of death, however, “Thou famished grave” uses the personification of a grave as a starving beast, diction to add imagery of starvation, and an image of a strong will to live to show the resentfulness and bitterness that the speaker has towards death, while, “Mindful of you” uses the imagery and personification of the four seasons to remember someone close who has died, to express that although death may take people physically, but they live and are remembered through memories.

As a result, a sense of urgency and regret can be felt within the audience from Keegan’s tone of it being too late to do something. Hence, this emotionally affects the reader since it makes them think about their own decisions and aspirations within their lives while reading about Keegan’s. Additionally, she continues to discuss to the readers that, “we can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.” Consequently, an emotion of motivation is actualized through this phrase to reassure the audience they do not have to believe that they cannot start something new or that it is too late to do something. In retrospect, Keegan’s purpose is for the audience to leave with an optimistic perspective, or recognize their own “sense of possibility.”

O’Brien culminates The Things They Carried with “The Lives of the Dead,” which includes a story about a girl named Linda that is at first seemingly unrelated to the overall plot. O’Brien discusses the story of Linda, a girl who he fell in love with in elementary school who succumbed to cancer. He had a deep connection with her, and found himself relishing sleep so he could dream endlessly about Linda. O’Brien then connects this story to those revolving the occurrences of Vietnam. He reveals yet another purpose of telling war stories: not to simply show readers what war in Vietnam was like, but to “revive…that which is absolute and unchanging” (O’Brien 224). Telling war stories serves as a way of “making the dead seem not quite so dead” (O’Brien

When fear overcomes a person, they can make irrational decisions that can negatively affect them in the end. This is apparent in the story, The Path Through the Cemetery by Leonard Q Ross, when Ivan, “a timid little man” (1) decides to cross the path through the cemetery to get to his house, instead of the path that goes around it. He only decides to do this because he was pressured into doing this, hoping to get “five gold rubles” (1) for crossing through. Ivan never used that path in the past because he feared that if he used it, something would happen. But when he crossed it for the first time, he was unsure if he would be able to make it through. As Ivan walked to the large tomb, he was “cold and terrified” of what could happen. After he

An intriguing setting is crucial to a successful story. When a book or story does not have a proper setting the reader is going to be uninterested and unimpressed. Usually when a reader is uninterested or unimpressed with the reading, they will put in down and not finishing reading. The goal of any writer should be to make the reader visually picture their story or book. When a reader can visualize the story, they tend to be entertained with the reading and finish to the end. Writers have to bring the book to life with the details of the surrounding atmosphere. The reader wants to be able to see the green pasture or taste the homemade apple pie just from the description. I enjoy reading and I will not finish reading a story if the setting is not detailed. One more important aspect of a great story is symbolism. As a reader, I’m always searching to find a deeper meaning. The Grave by Katherine Anne Porter, she does a stellar job at bringing the reader in and making them feel as if they were apart of the story. Even though, every story or book has a setting, characters, and symbolism, it needs to be great setting, relatable characters, and deep symbolism for the reader to interpret and also captured the immediate attention of the reader.

Lastly, the optimism of this character made him to reach places where courage is necessary in order to obtain the goals. At the end of this book, this young adult reaches all his goals. One of his ambitions is to be able to pass the math exam in order to go to university and live a more independent life. Which in the end he is able to achieve because of his hard work and dedication. Another of his goals, is to be a detective and find out who murdered his neighbor's dog and he gets it, even with very few clues his optimism led him to the truth. His optimism also led him not to sink into the lifestyle that his parent is in, a family that is completely broken. In addition, this young man is very optimistic to be practically by his own having