Graveyard experience essay

The Graveyard Book (2008) by Neil Gaiman breaks down the borderline between the dead and living world in his novel. Gaiman presents an irony in his novel by giving the caring nature to the dead people of the graveyard. He presents the graveyard as a safe place for an innocence, rather than the living world.

― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book Nobody Owens is a character in the novel, “The Graveyard Book” by Neil Gaiman. In ‘The Graveyard book” a man named Jack enters a home in the night. He has a sharp knife and he uses it to kill the mother, the father, and the older sister who live there.

Gaiman presents an irony in his novel by giving the caring nature to the dead people of the graveyard. He presents the graveyard as a safe place for an innocence, rather than the living world. Silas is a mysterious character throughout the novel and his existence is not stated very clearly amongst the living and dead.

The Graveyard Book was published in 2008 by Neil Gaiman. This book is about a normal boy named Nobody Owens but is known to his friends as Bod. Bod is raised in the graveyard by educated ghosts, a solitary guardian who is neither living nor dead and is under attack by the Man Jack.