Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman easily fits into the category of ghost stories. It tells the story of a young boy whose mother, father, and sister were killed by a man named Jack when he was a baby. He managed to escape the house and make it to a graveyard not far from his home. There, he meets several ghosts, including Mr. and Mrs. Owens, who decide to take care of him. The baby is named Nobody, or Bod as a nickname. He lives among these ghost as the only living person in the graveyard but…

“The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of all human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.” Libba Bary, bestselling fiction author, expresses the importance of libraries in the above quotation, stating that access to the public…

Return Of The Thin White Duke  I translated “Return Of The Thin White Duke By Neil Gaiman”  Before I started to translate that, I searched the story’s Turkish translation, I couldn’t find.  The story is really so long. However, I try to translate, It’s really an enjoyful story to read not to translate.  I try to translate all the text, but I couldn’t translate some of parts. So, this part wasn’t understand in Turkish.  My aim, to be understandable, using basic words to read and understood…

arms, most people choose to send adventure straight to voicemail. The reason some do this is that their fear of failure, danger, humiliation, and the unknown, get in the way of them living life to the fullest. The evidence for this can be found in Gaiman (2006), Cox (2008), along with my experience…

wind-up dead. This movie might have a familiar feel because the director, Henry Selick, also worked on “The Nightmare Before Christmas” in 1993, another creepy movie that should be about Christmas. He worked with the writer, Neil Gaiman, in 2009 to cast his movie “Coraline”. The main character is Coraline Jones played by Dakota Fanning, who is no newbie when playing lead roles. Her mother and father in the animated series, Mel Jones and Charlie Jones, was…

Short stories typically revolve around one event that has an unexpected turn before the story ends, and Gaiman has a peculiar way delivering the sense of “reality” in his prose. Guiding us through the story, he writes it so it gives us hints that it is in no way realistic. After the revelation, at the turn of events, we still question the reality of the previously…

In The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, a brave man remembers his horrific childhood journey. To begin with, he visits his old friend Lettie Hempstock’s old house. He finds Lettie’s mother still living there, and asks for permission to visit Lettie’s “ocean”. When he visits the small pond, some childhood memories start coming back to him. He begins to remember Lettie and her family, but most importantly, Ursula Monkton. The narrator’s thoughts take him back to the day when the opal…

Neil Gaiman opens The Ocean at the End of the Lane with the Maurice Sendak epigraph to foreshadow the idea that children are wiser than adults realize; both the epigraph and the novel suggest that children can appreciate some underlying truths about the world better than adults. The Maurice Sendak epigraph references this idea about children and their ability to comprehend road blocks in life better than adults can. The last two sentences say, “ But I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would…

the obvious diversity in physical form, but also because of the uniqueness humans have from each other. Our important features are our foundation as who we are as individuals, and the assortment of personalities set us apart from one another. As Neil Gaiman, author of the novel Anansi Boys, inspires us by writing, “Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words” (164). At the beginning of the book, the…

subverting the idealised view of the fantasy genre by making it feel more real, giving the characters rounded personalities and making them tonally darker. From there, my tastes have spread and include works from authors such as Raymond Chandler, Neil Gaiman, and Roald Dahl’s adult work- all tonally dark and critically cynical. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all of my A-levels, especially the way they all fit together to create something more than the subjects on their own. All of my subjects centre…