The Ocean At The End Of The Lane Analysis

The Ocean at The End of the Lane is a novel which was written by Neil Gaiman, and it was originally published by William Morrow and Company in 2013. It is a novel of fantasy, in that a seven-year-old boy experienced something horrifying and peculiar. The theme of this novel is the childhood memory which has been lost when you get older. Although it was a fantasy story, this is the book more for adults than children. This book starts with a scene of a middle-aged man returning to his hometown for a funeral. He suddenly remembered the memory of the girl whose name was Lettie Hempstock who lived at the end of the lane he used to live. He is drawn to the farm of Hempstock where he met Lettie and her mother and grandmother. At that very place …show more content…
Then the boy was almost drawn in the bath by his father while Ursula watched it with joy. The boy tried to escape from the house, but before reaching the border Ursula caught him as if she had been reading his mind. He avoided her as much as he could until the rainy night. When Ursula was distracted, the boy tried to run away once more. He made an escape from the hand of Ursula, and Lettie and her family took care of him, remove the remains of the wormhole. Actually, the wormhole was a path for Ursula back to her world, so Lettie tried to use it. However, the piece of the wormhole still left inside the boy, so the path was broken. Therefore Lettie called cleaners, hunger birds. They tore Ursula into pieces and got rid of her existence. However, they also claimed to eat the boy’s heart where the piece of wormhole remained. They attacked the boy, then Lettie jumped in between his and hunger birds. Lettie’s grandmother threatened them to leave with anger. Lettie got hurt and nearly die. Her mother took her to the ocean, where she could rest and heal her wound. Lettie saved his life by sacrificing her own life, so that he could live his own life. The boy was told that Lettie will come