The Graveyard Book

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

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

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

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

For my book 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

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

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

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

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. The Lady on

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