Genevieve: This story in The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman took place in a graveyard where a boy named Nobody Owens lived. His family was killed when he was only a toddler. After news of the tragic events, a couple who had been buried for more than 100 years, decided they wanted to adopt a boy. He was given free range of the entire graveyard, for it was his home. Though, his guardian Silas told him that the man who had killed his family was still out to kill him, so he was never to leave the graveyard. The whole story consists of his life in the graveyard and what happened when he grew older. |