Graveyard Book Timeline
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- EXPOSITION
- RISING ACTION
- CONFLICT
- Jack was the one who slaughtered the entire family, save for the infant. This infant wriggled into a cemetery. And this infant began to reside in the cemetery. He met someone in this cemetery. Her mother requested the care of Mr. and Mrs. Owens for his son. As a result, Mr. and Mrs. Owens became the child's parents and a man by the name of Silas became his guardian. Nobody (also known as Bod) Owens was the name of the newborn.
- CLIMAX
- Bod grows up with the Freedom of the Graveyard, allowing him to share many of the abilities of the dead. He learns lessons and makes friends with the ghosts around him. As he ages, however, he longs to know more about the living world and begins to test his boundaries by leaving the graveyard, going to school, and making friends with a living girl named Scarlett.
- FALLING ACTION
- Although the dead acknowledge that Bod is a living boy and want him to have a full life, it is unsafe for him to leave the graveyard. Because the sinister man still seeks to kill him, Bod’s freedom is limited and he is unable to fully experience life.
- RESOLUTION
- The assassin and his cronies, the Jacks of All Trade, chase Bod and Scarlett into the graveyard. One by one, Bod outwits them and uses his privileges of the graveyard to trap them. In a final showdown, he tricks Jack Frost in the barrow beneath the Frobisher mausoleum so that the Sleer drag him away forever.
- Now that the Jacks are eliminated, Bod is safe. Silas permits Bod to leave the graveyard with him and continues to guide and support him for one more year in the graveyard.
- At fifteen, Bod is fully grown and loses his Freedom of the Graveyard. He says goodbye to his family and friends and heads off to begin life in the land of the living.
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