Neil Gaiman

Coraline by Neil Gaiman is about a young girl named Coraline Jones discovering a door to her other life, other parents, and other struggles.I believe this book was excellent because the author Neil Gaiman,really went into detail about Coraline as a character. He wrote about her surroundings and the new things she discovers behind the door often describing every step she takes.Coraline Jones does not narrate the story but oddly enough, her thoughts and feelings are the only one’s shared throughout the story.In the book the conflict is presented when Coraline ventures through the door and soon after she is not able to escape the dimension she has entered.She gets trapped in the dimension and is faced with the seemingly good other parents real…

British author Neil Gaiman was 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…

Neil Gaiman, known for his surreal tales that bend ideas of space and time, transformed the comic book world with his first episode of Preludes and Nocturnes from The Sandman series. Throughout his career, his stories explore the interrelationship between rationality and irrationality, especially in conjunction with dreams. In his 1999 essay “Reflections on Myth,” Gaiman meditates on the nature of mythology and its connection to dreaming, stating that the new mythologies of magic and science and…

I got my attention with this artist was how he overcame the restrictions and limitations from using Webgl and that he created something which has not been created before , I was also interested in he’s ideation techniques. The fourth artist I research is not similar to the ones previously mentioned, Neil Gaiman. The reason I was draw to Neil Gaiman was he’s process on overcoming creative block and an important lesson which should be included in every project you do, don’t be afraid to make…

I felt deeply identified with Neil Gaiman's approach to reading and daydreaming, since I really felt it cleared my mind, relating daydreaming to reading. I never thought about this relationship until today. I consider his article was very touching, since he uses his own experience and memories to illustrate his idea, which I find quite accurate, not only because I have read and discussed about this before, but also because I just felt it was true. Since I was a child, I was aware that…

Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book writes about a young boy named Nobody Owens or Bod who has a unique relationship with the dead. Throughout the novel Bod learns many things that the dead know about and don’t. With his guardian Silas, a mysterious figure who is neither living nor dead, Bod learns multiple things about life, the dead, and how powerful knowledge is. Knowledge is Power and power is what Bod seeks in order to protect himself, avenge his family, and put a stop to the Man…

The content of literature comes in many forms. Various individuals believe that literature must portray reality in order to have an impact, however, others disagree. For instance, as once stated by English writer E.M. Forster, "A work of literature must provide more than factual accuracy or vivid physical reality... it must tell us more than we already know." The theory behind this quote is that works of literature do not necessarily have to completely exhibit only realistic and truthful subject…

Neil Gaiman sees reading being so important because he believes it’s a gateway drug to reading. Gaiman refers to it like that because he says The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn the page, the need to keep going, even if it’s hard, because someone’s in trouble and you have to know how it’s all going to end … that’s a very real drive. And it forces you to learn new words, to think new thoughts, to keep going. To discover that reading per se is pleasurable. Once you learn that,…

entertainment since the early ages. Neil Gaiman, a British author, has greatly contributed to modern mythology. His stories, such as Stardust, intrigues audiences of all ages. The characters created are interesting and complex. Gaiman’s character, Tristran Thorn, replaces his naivety with maturity as he travels throughout the world of Faerie. From a young age, Neil Gaiman was an avid reader (“Neil”). Growing up in the upper middle class, he had free time to develop his love for reading…

Neil Gaiman is an English writer of short fiction, novels, and comic books. Born in Port Chester, Hampshire, England, Gaiman was raised under the church of scientology although his grandfather was of Polish-Jewish descent. His life-long love for literature began at the age of four when he first learned to read. He excelled in school not because he was genius but because he would often read the books his teachers gave him as soon as they were handed out. At the age of seven, he received the Lord…