A.J.

September 21, 2009
Dear, Bod

Bod why are you getting in trouble so much if you’re supposed to lay low? Why didn’t you just vanish out of the police car? Bod I like the way you and Silas take care of situations that are going on, because I don’t ever expect it. Do you haunt Mo like you said that you would? Does living in the graveyard get boring just communicating with same people and not new ones? Do you think of Mr. and Mrs. Owens as your real parents since they adopted you or Silas because in the story it seems more like Silas is watching than the Owens’s?

Thank you for your time,

A.J. Garcia

Introduction/General Information about the Book
Title: The Graveyard Book.
Author: Neil Gaiman.
Type of Book (fantasy, humor, science fiction, mystery, biography, non-fiction): Fiction.
Main Character: Nobody Owens (Bod).
Describe this character: He is a human living creature living in a graveyard filled with dead people.
The main character changes from __a little baby protected by the graveyard by the end of the story. He has changed to a young man living freely in the world.
The main character does the right thing when: He lets his worry down after his teacher saves his life. He finally starts to let her teach him.
I can identify with the character when: he takes responsibility for his actions.
Another Character: Silas
Details: Silas is Bods’ teacher/guardian.
Another Character: Miss. Lupescu
Details: a teacher that Silas hired for Bod.
Describe the time and place of the story: Present and in the graveyard.
Comments about the setting (examples: setting makes story exciting, setting has an important effect on main character, setting is not exciting or new, setting showed how Bod was weird and creepy. The setting increased the suspicious weirdness in the story.
What is the author trying to say in this story? What is his lesson in life? That one day you will have to live in the world unprotected from everything. . .
Is there a moral to this story? That you need to be ready for life
This is a story about (courage? working hard? doing the right thing? greed? importance of friends? jealousy? love? caring? happiness? sadness?) happiness
This book showed me/I learned from this story: that graveyards are creepy
State a problem in the story and how it was solved: Bod was taken away and about to die and out of nowhere miss. lupescu comes and saves Bod as a big dog.
Summary of the story (list up to 6 events that happened in the story; keep them in order):

1. Bods family was killed except him whom makes it in a graveyard.


2. miss lepusca saves Bods life from ghouls.


3. silas lets Bod go to school.
Plot: The Action/Summary of What Happened in the Story

4. Silas jumps in front of a car for Bods captivity.


5. Jacks come to kill Bod.

6. Bod defeats all the Jacks and lives freely in the world.

Evaluation of the Book
What did you think of the book? It was a very interesting book
What did you like about the book? That the end surprised me
What didn’t you like about the book? That it was kind of boring in the middle
Was the story confusing or hard to believe? No
Was the story predictable (could you guess what was going to happen?) in somewhat you could
Was the story believable? No
The ending was very good