The Dance of the Death

The Macabray, is a dance between the living and the dead.The dance has been performed (by live people) and shown in art and literature as far back as the 1400s; but this dance is explained by Gaiman as a "lighter than darker" dance In this chapter, Neil Gaiman explains the dance with a mixture of what it really means from different cultures, I think because the story is more brighter than dark. The story about a boy living in a graveyard makes Gaiman to write about this dance like something fantastic, unusual and fun for that boy which is the protagonist; as I read i imagine a dance like any other in the past century, a very formal dance where everybody wanted to have the feeling of being there with not other interests, because as the words said, "Because there are mysteries. Because there are thing that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things the do not remember." It is an especial night, the living dance with the death and nothing else. Maybe the dance just symbolizes the union between two worlds. The living people who dance it don’t remember it afterwards and the dead who dance it either don’t remember, or at least pretend not to remember.

It is very frustrating for Bod not be allowed to talk about this dance, not even with his guardian. Bod just lived an experience that wanted to share but he couldn't. Being alive and live with the dead is making bod feel trapped, caught between the living and the death. For Silas the dance has a special importance and becomes a symbol of isolation, and for Bod it becomes a symbol of memory and forgetting.

The Graveyard’s Mood

It’s the middle of the night and I’m walking through the crypts, as I keep walking I see
people looking at me, but not sure whom or what. I stopped for a minute just to look around
and realize what was going on. O notice voices around me like whispers talking to each
other’s ears and in a deep sound I gear an owl which is in a tree, the light of the moon it
touches the owls wings and it lights the path that I’m walking. My nose perceives the wet
leaves that fell from the trees after the rain of last night.

I feel the sights of every ghost and spirit of the graveyard even though no one cares about
my presence. My feelings are, intrigue and more restlessness than fear.
I keep looking around and I can see the stars though the branches of the trees, the cold wind
cooling down my hands and face.

I keep walking and as I walk I have the strong feeling that someone is looking at me, I look
back and there is man staring at me, waiting for my next movement. My first thought is if
what he was feeling and if my feelings were changeable because of him. I didn’t notice
more than he’s look over me. My unconscious betrays me, my skin starts to getting hot, my
ears and eyes become sensitive and my feet want to run away; keep calm, I thought. Finally
I crossed the graveyard with the only feeling of going to the street besides the light
flickering in the pavement. I’m holding breath looking at the graveyard.

The Pauper's Drive

Rattle his bones
Over the stones
It’s only a pauper
Who Nobody owns 
– Traditional Nursery Rhyme

The poem that Neil used in the Graveyard Book was written by Thomas Noel (1841) talks about a pauper who just died that is bumped around roughly in a broken hearse; Nail Gaiman used this epigraph to refer the book, "Nobody" is the baby's name and "owns" could refer to the Owens who adopted the child, the scene takes place in the graveyard, maybe in a tumb in which the "Rattle" of the bones could refer the baby playing with the bones "rattling" them, the bones  of the Owens or their parents that just died. Eventhough the original poem is about the pauper which is on the way to the graveyard it also talks about death. Them man dies without money, friends, or family, he’s still owned by God.

The poem argues that it is disrespectful to honor the dead based on how much money they had while they were living. In The Graveyard Book, "who Nobody own" seems to mean that Nobody Owens owns or claims the pauper. Since Nobody is a friend of the dead, (refering to their parents's death) this would be a good thing, it suggests that it's up to compassionate, 

Gaiman said in the book that in a graveyard the democracy it doesn’t exist eventhough death is a great democracy, like in the first chapter all the deaths argue and say their opinion as to “whether the living child should be allowed to stay”.

Death is the great democracy because it does not discriminate. It strikes the poor

as well as the rich, and everyone in the world must encounter it. When people are

dead, they can not leave the graveyard since their bones are buried there. They may

walk in the graveyard, but the potential to change is finished.

Sueña

El hombre que triunfa, comenzó por soñar.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard book is considered a children's novel eventhough Neil Gaiman wrote this novel with the thought that anybody could read it. I've read about Neil Gaiman and how he came with the idea to write this novel, it took him 23 years to publish his book, and he finish it only 10 days before being published. He came out with the idea in 1985 when he saw his son riding his bike around a graveyard, I expect to be a great book, filled with a mix of fantasy and human longing.

Neil Gaiman's style is very particular because since he writes about every literature genre he can write a story or a novel in this case with the panorama of not being only from one theme in specific, as the criticism from the most important newspaper after the release of the book. By knowing about the authors' style, the main idea of the book, the criticism of the newspapers and the academies, it makes me think that will be an inusual book

I’ve read the first words of the first chapter, the story begins with a child killing all his family, this is not a good start if its a children’s book but the New York Times classifies this  book “This book is a wonder…weaving a tale of unforgettable ­enchantment”
I’ve never benn atracted by the scince fiction or fantasy but from the comments and the beggining of this story i’m already into it.

What it really interests me is the style that the novel is written, a different short story every chapter telling the story about the kid that murdered his family. With Gaiman’s writing, The Graveyard Book is full of rich scenery, strong characterization, and mysteries that are sometimes not fully explained. Is not a fanastic novel talking about unicorns and princess, it’s a novel where drama is in every part of the novel.