The Graveyard Book Analysis

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What? That’s hilarious! Why is that so funny? Humor in The Graveyard Book happens because it is a scary book and Neil Gaiman wants to add a little laughter and happiness to the story. One example is where the baby was walking down the stairs and his diaper fell off. It fell under his feet so he could walk on it and he didn’t make any noise. That’s funny because you can just picture that he was just waddling down the stairs, standing on his diaper. That was inserted in because the man Jack was killing his family and he didn’t know what was going on. Another example is when Scarlett and Bod were in the graveyard talking to the Indigo Man and Scarlett said,”He’s a big tattooey man and he wants to kill us!” That was inserted because that was

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