Book Review: The Graveyard Book, By Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book is a children's fantasy fiction novel by author Neil Gaiman, which was published in Britain and America during 2008. The Graveyard Book explains the story of how a young boy, Nobody "Bod" Owens, is orphaned after a mysterious man named Jack brutally murders his parent’s and older sister; who is then adopted and raised by the Owenses’, ghosts, and Bod is given free reign of the graveyard. As Bod ages, he faces many struggles, from learning, facing other devilish creatures, such as the ghouls, and later facing the man that had assassinated his family for the sake of an order of Jacks of All Trades. Throughout reading the book, we are numerous themes presented in Gaiman’s book, ranging from relationships between the living and dead, to psychopomps and other beings, and one of the most noticeable, good versus evil. In further examining the themes portrayed in

The Author does a good job giving clues to help solve the mystery (whole book). The author adds a poem which gives the order of the deaths and how they die (31). There is also glass figures that every time one of the people dies a glass figure disappears. It also gives clues throughout the story that helps figure out who is killing people (whole book). But the author also makes you think. There are also those moments where you read something and realize how it connects to something that happened previously in the book.

In ‘The Graveyard Book’, the author, Neil Gaiman conforms to the conventions of fantasy genre, by making the novel have a deep and much hidden meaning, which the reader may not identify at first glance. However, Neil Gaiman also subverts from the conventions of fantasy genre, because of the reversal in roles of traditional characters, in typical fantastical stories. ‘The Graveyard Book’ by Neil Gaiman, is a children’s fantasy novel. This book is about a boy, named Nobody (Bod) Owens, who is taken in, raised and educated by supernatural inhabitants of a graveyard, after his family was murdered by ‘the man Jack’. How and why Neil Gaiman chooses to conform to and subvert from the fantasy genre, will be

The lime featured in chapters eleven, twelve, and thirteen of Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman seems so misplaced it brings into speculation why it was in the book at all. The lime is first brought into the plot through Fat Charlie’s taxi driver who wants to prove to Charlie that limes really do grow on the island. The lime becomes the only luggage Charlie has with him and when Charlie goes out to look for Mrs. Higgler, several strangers ask if he is “the one with the lime,” some even proceed to ask if he would show it to them. When Charlie returns to the hotel, the lime is there waiting for him where he left it. He decides to take the lime with him the next time he goes out, which happens to be that night. He runs into Daisy in the hotel’s restaurant, and with the lime in his pocket, successfully grabs the attention of everyone in the room which in turn diverts the murderous Grahame Coats’ course of action. Later on, during a trip to a magical other-world, Charlie asks Dragon if he’s afraid of limes. The short conversation gets him out of trouble. By then Charlie doesn’t have the lime with him anymore, but what he does have is the green fedora his father gives him earlier on in that trip to the magical other-world. Both the lime and the fedora are green, but the lime more likely symbolizes Charlie’s own development of his father’s characteristics, compared to the fedora, which Charlie is able to wear proudly, showing how unashamed he has become of his father since

I’m still loving the the story “Promises to the dead” because of the adventure and a couple of problems along the way. It’s like after they get over one obstacle there is another waiting for them. I also really like how the story is introducing new characters along the way of their journey.

Upon the murder of a baby’s parents, two ghosts named Mr. and Mrs. Owens agree to raise the baby whom they name “Nobody” or “Bod” after he crawls into a cemetery. While the underlying theme of death and the supernatural lingers through Gaiman’s novel, the idea of a boy’s innocence and childhood is more predominant. In chapter one Mrs. Owens cares for Bod. She holds him, feeds him, and watches after him. By the end of chapter one, the murderer named “Jack” is angry as he thinks about all that has transpired and how the baby escaped. Suddenly Gaiman includes how Jack’s “knife was in his pocket, safe and dry inside its sheath, protected from the misery of the elements,” (Gaiman 33). This description can somewhat relate to that of a child. Nobody was still innocent and secure, protected from any evil elements in the world, even though such trauma had taken place because of the

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 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.

(Lovecraft,2015,Pg 15). The words he used to describe the cemetery, plays with reader's imagination and produces a vivid image in reader's mind. He allows the reader to step into the protagonist's world and suffer what protagonist suffers. Protagonist's friend leaves him in the ground and goes to explore the tomb

I would place The Graveyard by Neil Galman in Frye’s schema of satire. Frye has four schema’s that make up his archetypes. Comedic and Romantic come under Comedy and Tragic and Satire come under Tragedy. I believe that the graveyard comes under the satiric (ironic) branch of Frye’s theory. This is because the book’s premise is based on an ironic concept. The main character Jack murders all the members of the Dorian Family except the toddler. This toddlers somehow leaves with Jack as he travels back to the graveyard. Here the toddlers is met by various different demonic creatures. There is a werewolf, a vampire, a ghost just to name a few. These creatures then proceed to raise the toddlers in the graveyard. It’s ironic that the toddler is raised

The way that the author described everything that happened in the book like the smell of the basement or the how the weather was that day was really captivating. All of the characters were really well developed in the sense that they had more then meets the eye. There was something that you had to figure out about each character that wanted compelled you to read on. For instance it was not said until later in the book why Hans Huberman played the

Everyday people say the names of objects and others and never think about the meaning behind the name. Names have a sense of power to them, however, the meaning the behind the name gives information to an object or character. Character names in novels especially can give information without stating many clues about the person. In Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, he uses Nobody Owens, Scarlett Amber, and Jack Frost and the Jacks of all Trade names to provide essential information to the novel.

I was waiting for this book to come out for what felt like forever. All of Raina Telgemeier’s books were very inspiring and I knew that “Ghosts” would be the same. Another reason I longed for this book was because I was very interested in the Day of the Dead. About a year and a half ago, my aunt showed me a movie called “The Book of Life” and it changed my opinions about ghosts completely. Since then, I loved reading about anything that had to do with Day of the Dead. This book was of course, wonderful to me and I recommend this book to everyone. They’ll be surprised by how much they didn’t know about ghosts and Mexican cultures.

The first work that had an important influence on me was The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. This piece of literature follows a boy named Bod who is adopted by the inhabitants of a graveyard that consist of ghosts, witches, and a vampire. Throughout the work, Bod is discovering who he is and where he came from in

I enjoyed the book thoroughly and I would recommend it. It has a wonderful addition, not only is there amazing writing involved but there are also several pictures included in the pages. Every few chapters there are these old, peculiar photos that add to the story, some very