Quotes From The Graveyard Book

In The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman, Bod is a child in danger of a man who killed his family and is only protected in the graveyard. Bod grows up in a graveyard, raised by ghosts of various times. He was never let into the outside world which only made him more longing to see it. Bod is different in the sense that his life and upbringing is different from others, which shaped him into a somebody much different from everyone else; he was also ambitious in the sense that he has big dreams to travel all over the living world even though he barely knows about it, this trait affected how he developed. In The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman creates a different and ambitious character, whose traits affect how his story and interactions are written.

When Bod is allowed to attend school, the teacher notices his difference from other children: “‘Do you think they’re religious, his family… There’s just stuff he doesn’t know. And in History he’ll throw in little made-up details, stuff not in the books…’” (Gaiman 181-182) This quote shows how the teacher views him and how his upbringing affects the way he reacts to History. The teacher thinks it’s odd how he acts and assumes it is because of religious reasons. Since Bod is raised by ghosts of different times, he feels the need to include facts from the graveyard into his History essays. The quality of being different comes from what Bod grows up learning which shapes him into an odd person in the eyes of