the graveyard book Flashcards
(10 cards)
the opening tgb chapter NAME
‘How Nobody Came to the Graveyard.’
KEY POINTS FROM FIRST PARA TGB
THERE WAS A HAND IN THE DARKNESS AND IT HELD A KNIFE. knife handle = polished black bone, blade finer and sharper than any razor, if it slice you wouldnt know immediately, knife had done everything it was brought to do, blade handle wre wet, street door open. , the resident ghosts give Bod the Freedom of the Graveyard (the ability to see and interact with dead people) and adopt him as one of their own.
personification in op tgb
wisps of the night time mist slithered and twined into the house through the open door
where had he left the woman, man and oldest child?
woman in the bed, man on the bedroom floor, child in her brightly coloured bedroom surrounded by toys and half finished models. LEFT THE LITTLE ONE, BABY BARELY A TODDLER. ONE MORE AND HIS TASK WOULD BE DONE.
poem at the start of tgb
rattle his bones
over the stones
its only a pauper
who nobody owns
high points of tension
when scarlett and bod first meet the indigo man n the sleer, when bod meets the ghouls and has to be rescued by miss lupescu, When bod was kidnapped by abanazer bolger, when bod gets arrested due to mo quilling and nick farthing bc poloice off. =mq uncle, when bod and scarlett found out mr frost wad the man jack, whren bod and the man jack fight. when the sleer engulfs the man jack, when we find out about the honor guard
what is it called when the weather reflects mood?
pathetic fallacy
who is apart of the honor guard and what is it about
silas and miss lupescu are members of the honor guard devoted to protecting the borders between things.
the poem mrs owens sings to bod before he leaves
sleep my little babby-oh
sleep until you waken
when you wake youll see the world
if im not mistaken
kiss a lover
dance a measure
find your name
and buried treasure
face your life
its pain its pleasure
leave no path untaken.
closing of tgb summary
bod is about 15, slowly losing his freedom of the graveyard = sometimes he could no longer see the dead, given enough money to give him a start in the world, and a case packed by silas, “But between now and then, there was life; and bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart open.”
