Graveyard Book Timeline
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- EXPOSITION
- CONFLICT
- RISING ACTION
- 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
- The primary conflict in Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book is caused by Jack of all Trade's ambition to kill Bod, who escaped Jack Frost's initial attack and is shielded by others who live in the graveyard. Bod can't live his life to the fullest because it's dangerous for him to go out of the cemetery and he runs the risk of being murdered by Jack. Bod's relationship to both the cemetery and the outer human community causes him to experience internal conflict.
- FALLING ACTION
- Bod acquires the Freedom of the Graveyard as he grows older, giving him access to many of the skills of the dead. He gains wisdom from the ghosts nearby and befriends them. But as he gets older, he develops a desire to learn more about the living world and starts to push the rules by going to school, leaving the cemetery, and befriending a living person named Scarlett.
- 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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