“Hey guys what’s up it’s your two favorite people back at it again with the vlogging and today me and Crimson are going to do the 24 hour graveyard challenge. “At the moment Crimson is driving to the graveyard,” I said. We got an in and out burger before we got to the graveyard and when I lifted my burger to my mouth the grease dripped into my mouth and the sweet and savory meat, cheese, and ketchup exploded in my mouth. As we pulled into the parking lot the screeches of the car tires rolling on the ground filled my ears like a little girl screaming. I already knew this was an awful idea. As we climbed the fence that was blocking us off from getting in we already heard movement from the bushes and thought that we should leave but decided…
Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book writes about a young boy named Nobody Owens or Bod who has a unique relationship with the dead. Throughout the novel Bod learns many things that the dead know about and don’t. With his guardian Silas, a mysterious figure who is neither living nor dead, Bod learns multiple things about life, the dead, and how powerful knowledge is. Knowledge is Power and power is what Bod seeks in order to protect himself, avenge his family, and put a stop to the Man…
Analysis of The Graveyard Book Ch.1,2 - Omar Shah The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaimon is a work of literary art that brings textual descriptions and scenes to vivid images that we can form in our minds at ease. Gaimon incorporates multiple literary techniques in order to achieve this such as diction, syntax, foreshadowing, as well as many other elements. This results in a captivating work of writing that makes the reader want to continue to seek answers to their increasing number of questions…
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman easily fits into the category of ghost stories. It tells the story of a young boy whose mother, father, and sister were killed by a man named Jack when he was a baby. He managed to escape the house and make it to a graveyard not far from his home. There, he meets several ghosts, including Mr. and Mrs. Owens, who decide to take care of him. The baby is named Nobody, or Bod as a nickname. He lives among these ghost as the only living person in the graveyard but…
Sun Tzu once said, “The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.” Victims of many situations usually are unaware of their trouble until the oppressor portrays it. Unfortunately, Nobody Owens from Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, always got into life-threatening incidents. In this novel, the man Jack, an extremely dangerous man to the Dorian family, goes to the Dorian household to avoid problems for himself in the future.…
“Shh... ,” was the noise I heard when me and my friends were walking past the graveyard because my best friend was trying to tell a spooky story to us. For some reason she told us the story when she was looking at the jittery moon. The thing about the graveyard thoe was that it was really foggy and if you looked anywhere else there would be know fog. She told us the story and this is how it went. It was about a tree with lots of black crows that had red eyes and a house on top of a hill. The…
Nobody “Bod” Owens is a boy in modern day England who is brought up by the inhabitants of a graveyard near his original home. His mortal family was murdered by the man Jack who later reappears in the novel as Mr. Jack Frost. Bod escaped his home that night and walked to the graveyard where he was given protection by some of the ghosts there after having a brief encounter with the ghost of Bod’s mother. Bod’s main caregivers in the graveyard are Mr. and Mrs. Owens, along with a tall,…
After they put the casket on the cart then all the pallbearers had to put one hand on the casket handle and pull the casket out of the room. We wheeled the casket out of the room and to the car where they put the casket when we go to the graveyard. We loaded the casket into the car and closed the doors. Then everyone got into there own cars and followed the car with my Great Grandma in the back. We arrived at the graveyard and by the time we got there they already had the casket in the room…
“I ca-can’t run any longer. You should just continue, wi-without me.” “No! I won’t let those repulsive creatures hurt you!” “Sally, please. Just go. The zombies will be here any se-second, you need to save yourself. Now go.” “But, I can’t leave you, Jerem—” What a fake movie, I thought, as I turned my laptop off. Zombies, really? I rubbed my eyes, feeling tired. I sleepily headed towards my bedroom door, which was beside the house door. Turning the doorknob, a gust of wind almost sent me…
rights and stop hiding made them worried. The now elderly people prayed for us to return with good news and some cried for us to leave but if we don’t fight for our rights who will. They don’t care about us or what we do, they don’t even care if we were alright were tired of hiding from the things that belongs to us. When we arrived the air felt heavy, something in the air or in the way this place looks made my stomach turn. As we marched up to Justin we saw how the people ran into their homes…