Neil Gaiman

Blurred Limes 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

involve women taking the lead over the typical male. Just like in Vampirella, it had some horror in it, but was more focused on being sexual and outlandish. One particular comic book series I was quite fond of was The Sandman by award-winning writer Neil Gaiman. What really got my attention was the character Death; the sister of the main protagonist Sandman. Death is both the lord and personification of all death and life, but she is the complete opposite of what people see her image as, an image of

as a genre, is a tricky form of prose. It is made out of imaginary characters and situations. Often these are very disconnected from reality that the readers are almost always aware that they are reading a book. That however is not the case with Neil Gaiman. His characters and situations are always tied back to the reality we live in. As outrageous as events get in his worlds there’s always an element of reality, a real world problem that sucks the reader in. Even if he’s talking of ancient gods or

Coraline by Neil Gaiman is a fascinatingly creepy novel that can be enjoyed by a child or senior citizen. The novel follows the story of an 11-year-old girl named Coraline whose parents constantly ignore her, and this drives her explore her flat. One day, she discovers a dark tunnel behind a door that leads her to an alternate universe with many adventures. Coraline is an unexpecting, innocent girl who is suddenly thrown into a quest to find and save her parents as well as the souls of three children

responses to conflict and development. Readers are positioned to respond positively to Coraline by the use of characterisation, interior monologue and setting. Knowing your place in the world is an extremely important issue for young children that Neil Gaiman explores in depth throughout the book. At the beginning of the book, Coraline is ignored and feels like a young child. Coraline believes her name is a main part of her identity and therefore tries to make sure everyone remembers it, ‘“No,” said

In these paragraphs I will show how the author of Coraline, Neil Gaiman, creates mystery. I will do this by providing various quotes and analysing them. Neil Gaiman creates mystery in the quote “There was a cold, musty smell coming from the open doorway, it smelled like something very old and very slow” by making us want to know what this smell. Also mystery is created in this passage with the adjective “cold” this links to mystery as in most ghost films and books, whenever a ghost (or an undead

millions of writers get critiqued everyday on their writing especially Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman’s stories “How To Talk to Girls at parties”, “Cinnamon”, and “Stardust” all share one thing in common that a feminist critique would point out: the poor portrayal of woman. A feminist critique would point out the unfair bias or lack of equality. In all three of these pieces the woman are shown in different light as men. Neil Gaiman 's short story “How to meet girls at parties” shows how Victor’s attitude

The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman 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

Neil Gaiman has a unique style of writing that is unlike any other writer of today. He is able to create fantastical, eerie stories seems painfully real and largely humorous. However, the most interesting quality about Gaiman and his writings is not his uniqueness, but his ability to use whatever medium of print to its fullest. Whether it be the novel with The Graveyard Book, the children’s book with The Wolves in the Walls, or the graphic novel with The Sandman: Dream Country, Neil Gaiman expertly

The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman, is about a boy whose family was murdered by a mysterious man Jack. This boy, now named Nobody “Bod” Owens, was taken under the care of the people of the graveyard, spirits of those who had died and were buried in this graveyard, and had Silas - a man who was neither dead nor living - become his guardian. It is here in the graveyard in which Bod grows up and visits many strange places and people, including the place of the Indigo Man, the Sleer, the ghoul gate,