Authors Note: When I think of reading, I think about all of the wonderful thoughts, connections, and wonderful things that will make you tell people. All those are gathered up in”The Graveyard Book”.
Most of the books I’ve read in the year 2012 have been beyond thrilling, but the overwhelming and spectacular novel, “The Graveyard Book” By Neil Gaiman, has hit a home run in my park. This intriguing, thought- provoking, and certainly original novel is gripping and suspenseful with every chapter I’ve read. All of the novels Neil Gaiman has successfully wrote have impressed many young teenagers by writing about possible connections we could make to ourselves and to the world.
Neil Gaiman must have had a lot of experience in his life, because most of the mysteries, crimes, and frightening life matters give you those chills, and you want to savor those last pages of those enriched books. But being a famous, fantasizing, and intelligent author must take a lot of practice, and a ton of skill. Neil Gaiman knows how to connect to his readers by observing real- life matters, for instance he has made a connection to me and a peer, we both have older brothers that are good friends and were good friends too. Those little connections make me want to keep inspiring my dreams on his wonderful books.
Having dreams is like living in a different fantasy world. They can harm everyone emotionally, scare people, and sometimes give people butterflies, like they want their dream to never end. Personally when I hit the hay I don’t see a thing when I sleep. It’s all black, then I wake up 7 hours later I think to myself “how does time go by so fast”? That’s the life that 6 year old boy, Bod lives, but with him it’s not a dream. When he was just a toddler at the age of 1, his family was murdered and somehow he managed to escape the crime scene. He crawled to an old, dusty, cruel, and scary graveyard across the street from there fantasizing mansion. There he can see the ghosts; he can feel the cruelty they have to live in. What I thought at first was that Bod had nobody to help him grow up. I was incorrect, an old caring and beautiful elderly lady, Mrs. Owens, has a heart big enough to share. Her thoughts have driven her to take care of this petite ball of sunshine.
“Growing up in a graveyard is hard” is what Bod imagines, but when a carefree, fantastic, beautiful, girl named Silas visits to what Bod calls home, his whole world flips up and around! Silas makes Bod feel like he has a high potential in the real world, by what she observes from her wealthy parents. I have a very wealthy family myself, so i can relate to what Silas lives like. As Bod expands his variety of things to do with his life, he notices that staying in the Graveyard isn't a choice.
The pain that Bod lives through is dreadful, horrible, and unimaginable, is hard to think about. Some People in the world can’t relate to living in a graveyard because they have nice houses and good child care, when Bod gets sick he has to fight it himself, when he sprains his ankle he has to walk it off. People don’t realize that there are other human beings in this planet, not just them. No matter what life Bod grew up in, he should dream big and work hard.
