Neil Gaiman

The novel Coraline is a dark fantasy – horror children book, written by the British author Neil Gaiman. Gaiman mentions that his inspiration to write this novel was his daughter Holy and then he finished it for his daughter Maddy. The novel has 13 chapters that lead the reader into the fantastic adventure of Coraline. The novel was published in 2002. Neil Gaiman was born on November 10th, 1960, he is a very famous British novelist; he has won a lot of awards for his jobs. Some of Neil’s…

Coraline is a movie by Neil Gaiman and directed by Henry Selick. Throughout this Movie the themes of fear and Versions of Reality is eveident.In this essay I will discuss the importance of both themes.Coraline Jones has just moved to the pink palace with her parents (Charlie Jones And Her Mother).But within the pink palace lies a deep dark secret and the deaths of three young childeren. Versions of reality in the movie is extremely important because coraline finds another dimension and that…

similar to each other, but still very different. Both are amazing stories are about a young girl who is led into a strange world where they have to challenge all odds in order to make it home. While these stories are very much alike, Coraline by Neil Gaiman has a dark twist that counteracts the wholesome dreamlike wonder…

I am reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman and I am on page 200. The novel is about Richard Mayhew, an average Londoner with an average life who is dragged into the mysterious world of London Below when he helps a girl he finds bleeding on the street. Despite being the beginning of a fantastic adventure, his decision to be a Good Samaritan has negative consequences, as it causes him to miss a dinner with his trendy fiancée’s boss, leading her to dump him. I will be rewriting the first chapter, as it…

How Did Gaiman Depict the Monsters in the Book? The Graveyard Book, written by Neil Gaiman, has many monsters in the book. The most prominent monsters are Bod, Night Gaunts, and Silas. Although these characters are likeable, they are considered monsters. Yet, they are all helpful and brave. Gaiman depicted monsters differently. He brought to life their humanity and gave them characteristics people could relate to. Most monsters have characteristics that are scary and frightening. Gaiman…

Form is Fairy Tale” describes normalized magic as “not astounding… normal.” This key concept in fairy tales acts passively; the reader understands and internalizes magic’s presence in the story. This is the core of the technique’s effect. For example, Neil Gaiman’s Coraline features a door to another world in an ordinary doorway. The doorway, bricked up in the past, opens again to allow Coraline to stumble into a mysterious realm that looks suspiciously off from her natural home. The reader does…

simple, yet layered descriptions that give not a usual imagery that we are prone to think about when we typically think of hell. When we think of hell, we generally picture flamers; a devil torturing all that is around you. Yet, in this story by Neil Gaiman, you can clearly tell that he was going for a different approach, a different purpose that he tried to convey with a unique voice. He created an ambience of emptiness and coldness, which he carried through with these long interludes of…

“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. Luckily, a toddler was…

the local graveyard. Once at the graveyard, he is adopted by a family of ghosts who christen him Nobody Owens, and as he matures among them, he learns very important life lessons about fear, family, power, and friendship. The Graveyard written by Gaiman is an outstanding piece of children’s literature due to its central themes of growing up and dispelling fear, it is the clever and compassionate protagonist, and said protagonist's relationships. Nobody Owens draws the reader in with his…

Neil Richard Gaiman,born on November 10th, 1960 in Portchester, United Kingdom is best known as a sci-fi and fantasy writer. His father was a company director and his mother was a pharmacist. Since his mother is Jewish, Mr.Gaiman practices Judaism. When he was a child, Gaiman had read comic books and normal books, at one point he had read through all of the children’s books in his local library. Prior to being 16, Gaiman read comic books, though stopped because he felt that he had outgrown them…