Wednesday, March 30, 2011
I ❤ Graveyards!
I have to say that The Graveyard Book just might be my favorite book this semester. I love how this book is for people of all ages, and how a graveyard is the safe place. In today's world we normally fear graveyards and think about ghosts haunting them, zombies rising, or vampires lurking. I've always felt safe at graveyards, and peaceful there. My mom and I will sometimes go to the graveyard down the road from where we live and walk around in the afternoons/ night looking at tombstones, flowers, and remembering loved ones, so to have a graveyard as a place of safety made me feel not so weird. I easily connected to Bod, and felt as though I were leaving my home when he left in the end. I've never read any of Gaiman's stuff before now, (though an obsessed friend of mine has begged me to for years) but I think I might just start. How do you guys feel about graveyards?
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Before reading this book, I always felt that graveyards were sad. There are so many forgotten people in them. Not many people frequent the graves of their loved ones and if you didn't know that person yourself you aren't very likely to go visit your dead great grandma anyhow. I also felt they were creepy for obvious reasons.
After reading this book, I cannot drive past a graveyard without smiling and remembering this aMAZing story! It has washed away any fear I may have had. Now I wonder what interesting tales these dead might have.
I am with you Shauna; graveyards are awesome. The silence, the weight of memories, and the sense of timelessness create an atmosphere surrounding them that calls for introspection. If you haven't visited it, there is a really neat cemetery behind Tutwiler where Amelia Gorgas was buried.
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