The+Graveyard+Book

Sixth grade English class has just read the highly acclaimed novel, __The Graveyard Book__, by author Neil Gaimon. The book received the Newberry Medal in 2009, as well as Carnegie, Hugo, and Locus awards. It's a fantasy/adventure book that requires some deep thinking to process. Students are working on analyzing the elements of fiction in this book.

Students, please complete the following chart. I've started the answers for you so that you'd see that you are to write in sentences. Please feel free to delete my beginnings. Please add your initials in parenthesis after you've added one section. Your classmates will add on. ~Ms. Jaynes focusing on the protagonist and antagonist: ||< Bod is the main protagonist, who lives in a graveyard. (AC) Bod is running away from the Jacks who are the antagonist. Silas is also a protagonist and protects Bod until manhood. (MC) Another protagonist is Scarlett but at the end she thinks bod is extremely crazy and insane so Silas erases her memory. (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Owens, they are Bods and they also live in the grave yard. (BD) || that acts as a turning point: ||< The turning point was when the man Jack came back for Bod, after many years, and came with others. (C.D.A.) The turning point started when Jack Frost pulled out the knife to kill Bod when he said he found a letter but then Scarlett called out and Bod faded. (CC) || Was the problem solved? ||< By the end of the story... || theme of the book? ||< It is saying one man's nightmare can be another man's saving grace.(WC) ||
 * Describe the setting: ||< The Graveyard Book takes place in a grave yard in England. (GD) ||
 * Describe the main characters,
 * Describe the conflict ||< The conflict is that the man Jack is trying to kill Bod to save the rest of the Jacks. Bod gets protected by the graveyard. (MC) In the graveyard he also gets these cool powers like walking through walls and being able to fade. (CC) ||
 * Describe the plot, in summary: ||< At the beginning of the story a toddler's family is killed by the Man Jack and the Man Jack is trying to kill him. The toddler runs up the hill that leads to the graveyard. The baby crawls into the graveyard and meets a ghost. The toddler is not frightened but is interested in the white form. The babies mother's ghost appears at the graveyard and tells the ghost that met the baby to take care of him. That he is in grave danger. The ghost agrees and hides the baby from Jack. Soon the so called "caretaker" sees Jack and leads him out. The caretaker is Silas, who is not dead nor alive. The Man Jack is confused because the baby disappeared in thin air. When the ghost and her husband, who are named Mr and Mrs. Owens, take the baby they named him Nobody Owens or Bod. (R.A.L.) ||
 * Describe the climactic part
 * Describe the resolution.
 * Describe the message or