Nobody Owens Character Traits

One night, a mysterious man named Jack murders a young boy’s family. That young boy narrowly escapes his own gruesome murder by wandering away from his room to 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 adventurous natures from the very first page. The reader simply can’t help but smile indulgently as he journeys through every inch of the graveyard even to areas explicitly forbidden to him. On top of being adventurous, the boy displays various acts of kindness and graciousness throughout the book. Being the other home of ghosts gives him the acute empathy needed to relate to and comfort other characters in the novel reason that ostracized for one or another, like the witch in the potter’s field or the …show more content…
Like most likable, the character flaws that Nobody demonstrates are the negative aspects of his positive character traits. For instance, his inquisitive and adventurous nature leads him to be reckless at times, and this results in several conflicts that arise throughout the novel, including the near exposure of his supernatural ties and potential death. He learns from those mistakes, however, and his character develops smoothly from chapter to chapter to chapter until he becomes an admiral young man. Neil Gaiman does an excellent job of forging as a character who feels like a real person and is so relatable despite his fantastical surroundings in keeping with the magical realism of the