Neil Gaiman

For example, a classic American literature class might read Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mocking Bird. A famous story that teaches the importance of empathy. Fantasy works can expand on the idea of empathy and draw a reader in. The story Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman is about a character named Richard Mayhew. The story starts out introducing Richard. Richard is a young, dull man in London. However, everything changes when he finds a girl bleeding out in the streets while on his way to meet Jessica’s…

Coraline (Synopsis) By: Neil Gaiman "You see, Caroline," Miss Spink said, getting Coraline's name wrong, "Both myself and Miss Forcible were famous actresses, in our time. We trod the boards, luvvy. Oh, don't let Hamish eat the fruitcake, or he'll be up all night with his tummy." "It's Coraline. Not Caroline. Coraline," said Coraline. On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to…

Wasp is an Academy Award winning short film production written and directed by Andrea Arnold, starring Natalie Press and Featuring Danny Dyer. Zoë (Andrea Arnold) is a single mother of four living in a grotty Dartford cancel estate. Stuck in a desirable state for a better life and a love interest such as David Beckham, whilst struggling to provide and care for herself and children with the basic needs of food. Zoë becomes fixated on an old friend - Dave (Danny Dyer) that is recently making a…

In Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch is a 1990 World Fantasy Comedy novel, written as collaboration with English authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. The book is about the birth of the son of Satan, the Antichrist coming in the last days. An Angel and Demon, Aziraphale and Crowley attempts to sabotage the apocalypse. Both have grown to their human customs spending six thousand years on Earth…

It takes a village (or maybe a graveyard) to raise a child. This is a theme in The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, and this theme sticks to the book like magnet throughout the whole story. To explain, Bod was not only raised by his parents, but almost everyone he knew in the graveyard. First were the parents, which are necessary in a child’s life, “Mr. and Mrs. Owens will be his parents,” (Gaiman 23). Every child must have one to talk to and have someone who cares about them, just like Mr. and…

Other people may be satisfied with how they lived their life when they die. Many of the characters in Neil Gaiman’s book, The Graveyard Book, found out the importance of living life to the fullest. Nehemiah Trot, the poet, believes he lived life to the fullest. He says he got revenge on the person who “had the nerve, the confounded cheek to write of his first slim volume of poems.” (Gaiman 233) Nehemiah got his revenge by writing a letter to the Public Houses of London saying that he would no…

Coraline, an unhappy girl, moves to the Pink Palace Apartments with her mother and father. Since Coraline is left to her own devices, she befriends her new neighbors and a boy who lives further down the lane. Later, she discovers an alternate world—one where everything is exactly the same but seems so perfect—so perfect that she would rather live there. However, things aren’t always as they seem. Coraline has to rescue herself and her parents from impending doom. Coraline Jones was voiced by…

I have recently finished reading the graphic novel version of Neil Gaiman’s classic book “Coraline”. The book is a suspenseful horror novel. It has amazing illustrations and interesting characters. This book is about Coraline a curious young girl who had recently moved into a new house. With her urge to explore she found a door in her house that led to another house similar to her one, almost exactly the same. The only problem was that there was another version of her mother and father. This…

In this scene the lighting in the house is dim to show the audience the time and how everybody but Coraline, and the mouse she is chasing, are asleep and possibly how mundane (hence the washed out colours throughout the setting) this new house is to her. The lighting in the entrance to the ‘other world’ is brighter and there are far more vivid colours. It’s not as dull or monotonous as the lighting in the real world, again emphasising how uninteresting the ‘real world’ is to her. When Coraline…

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…