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    In Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, the protagonist is a toddler who escaped the house that his family was murdered in and is taken in and adopted by the Owens and other spirits that reside in a nearby ancient graveyard. The boy is given the name of Nobody Owens and the Freedom of the Graveyard which allows him to move through solid objects. In his years growing up, Nobody (or, as he is often called, “Bod”) becomes friends with a girl named Scarlett who eventually moves away with her family to Scotland

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    The Graveyard Book

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    The Graveyard Book is an amazing book written by the New York Times bestselling author of Coraline, Neil Gaiman. Though some readers may argue that it was tossed around, overall The Graveyard Book was unpredictable, adventurous, and heartwarming. The Graveyard Book is very unpredictable and will keep readers turning every page with excitement. It has just the right amount of plot twists, shocking, while not leaving the reader confused. Every page is a mystery where you never know what you’ll find

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    The Graveyard Book

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    The Graveyard Book Writing Piece In the Graveyard Book there are many themes like Good vs. Evil, Boundaries Vs. Freedom, another is Isolation, Free Will Vs. Fate, Living Life to the fullest, and Family. The theme we are focusing on in the book is Good Vs. Evil. The theme is Good Vs. Evil because Bod is fighting against Jack for his life in the book. The beginning in graveyard book starts off as Bod’s family getting killed. Then Bod as a baby crawls to the graveyard and meets two ghost that take

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    The Graveyard Book is about a boy named Nobody Owens (Bod) who lives in a graveyard to be protected from the man Jack, who murdered his family, but failed to kill Bod. After being raised by a vampire named Silas for a few years, Bod meets a friend named Scarlett Perkins, whose parents believe Bod to be an imaginary person. One day, she come to the graveyard to tell Bod that her family is moving away to Scotland. Silas leaves the graveyard for a few days, so he has a woman (werewolf) named Miss Lupescu

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    The Graveyard Book has many different themes in it. The main themes include Boundaries vs. Freedom, Isolation, Free Will vs. Fate, Living Life to the Fullest, Good vs. Evil, and Family. One very important theme is, isolation. Isolation is important in the graveyard book because from the moment Bod was taken in by the ghosts ( his family had been murdered) he was isolated from the outside world. From this isolation of the world, Bod learned many things about himself and grew up faster than a normal

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    CORE - The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman) 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

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    The Graveyard book, written by Neil Gaiman is a stupendously well-crafted book detailing the life of Nobody Owens, or Bod, a boy whose family has been ruthlessly slaughtered. Bod crawls to the graveyard next to his house, where the inhabitant ghosts take him in and adopt him, where he lives until Bod decides that he wants to live with his own kind: the living. While it is true that all books open up worlds of literature, no book does it better than the Graveyard book of leaving you with an utterly

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    Graveyard Book Themes

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    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

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    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. When Jack killed Bod’s family, Bod escaped the crib and walked out of the house down to the graveyard. Curiosity is important for Bod because

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    report, I read The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Dave McKean. It is a fiction book, and is told in third person. The Graveyard Book takes place somewhere in England in present day in a town called Old Town up on a hill in a graveyard. The protagonist is Nobody Owens, or known as Bod. The antagonists are the Jacks of All Trades. Some of the additional characters include Mrs. Owens, Mr. Owens, the man Jack, Silas, Liza Hempstock, and Scarlett. The Graveyard Book takes place

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