The Graveyard Book
Introduction + Context
Plot Summary
Detailed Summary & Analysis
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Interlude
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Themes
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Community, Identity, and Coming of Age
Parents and Guardians
Life and Death
Good, Evil, and Assumptions
Quotes
Characters
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Nobody “Bod” Owens
Scarlett Amber Perkins
Liza Hempstock/The Witch
Silas
Jack Frost
Miss Lupescu
The Sleer
Mrs. Owens
Mr. Owens
Nick
Mo
Nehemiah Trot
Scarlett’s Mother
The Ghouls
Abanazer Bolger
Josiah Worthington
Thackeray Porringer
Caius Pompeius
The Ghost (Bod’s Biological Mother)
Mother Slaughter
The Lady on the Grey
The Indigo Man
Paul Singh
Alonso Jones
Terms
All Terms
Barrow
Symbols
All Symbols
Liza’s Headstone
Freedom of the Graveyard
The Macabray (Danse Macabre)
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Introduction
Intro
Plot Summary
Plot
Summary & Analysis
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Interlude
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Themes
All Themes
Community, Identity, and Coming of Age
Parents and Guardians
Life and Death
Good, Evil, and Assumptions
Quotes
Characters
All Characters
Nobody “Bod” Owens
Scarlett Amber Perkins
Liza Hempstock/The Witch
Silas
Jack Frost
Miss Lupescu
The Sleer
Mrs. Owens
Mr. Owens
Nick
Mo
Nehemiah Trot
Scarlett’s Mother
The Ghouls
Abanazer Bolger
Josiah Worthington
Thackeray Porringer
Caius Pompeius
The Ghost (Bod’s Biological Mother)
Mother Slaughter
The Lady on the Grey
The Indigo Man
Paul Singh
Alonso Jones
Terms
All Terms
Barrow
Symbols
All Symbols
Liza’s Headstone
Freedom of the Graveyard
The Macabray (Danse Macabre)
Theme Wheel
Theme Viz
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Barrows are underground burial sites. Like the barrow grave in the novel, most barrows feature an underground room of sorts that was originally created within a man-made hill. Barrows first became common in Britain around…
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