The Graveyard Book Analysis

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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 unforgettable experience you will never find in any other book. The Graveyard book accomplishes this task through it’s exhilarating, hard-to-put-down nature, it’s age appropriate writing style, it’s inspirational plotline, and lastly, it’s extremely creative ideas and various concepts found throughout the book. A book, no matter what kind of book, always has an age range. In this case, the Graveyard book’s “age range” is completely open to all ages, especially our age range. While ““The Graveyard Book” will entertain people of all ages, it’s especially a tale for children,” says NY times book reviewer Monica Edinger. That makes it age appropriate, therefore allowing you connect deeply with the main characters, most …show more content…

There’s no other way to put the innovative style of the Graveyard book into words. It’s concepts are simple, but to the point and terrifyingly clever. For example, Fade: An ability that is used to become invisible, only works when no one is looking. As well as this, despite the fact that the Graveyard book is derived from another book, the Jungle Book, The Graveyard book still manages to be at his absolute best, creating something original from a derived plotline. The Jungle Book has many characters, problems, resolutions, all adding up to an excellent story, but the Graveyard Book takes it to a whole new level, by adding all sorts of exceedingly exemplary writing, such