The Graveyard Book: Difference between revisions

* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]: If {{spoiler|the Jacks of All Trades hadn't tried killing Bod's family, he'd never have had the means or even a reason to fight them. The Honour Guard only discovered that they existed when they tried killing a family that lived near a graveyard with one of its members in it.}}

** [[Harry Potter|Sound familiar?]]

* [[Talking in Your Dreams]]: One of Bod's powers is to be able to enter people's dreams and converse with them.

* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: Silas.

** {{spoiler|Mowgli's Brothers/How Nobody Came to the Graveyard}}: A cruel and sadistic villain murders an entire family, but their infant son eludes his grasp. He is discovered and protected by a charitable [[Raised By Natives|native couple]], but their peers urge them to give up the child because he belongs to a group outside of their social order. They are all eventually persuaded to adopt the child when swayed by the urgings of their leader and a [[Dark Is Not Evil|shadowy predator]] living on their outskirts.

** {{spoiler|The King's Ankus/The Witch's Headstone}}: A boy journeys into an ancient and forgotten ruin underneath the earth, where he encounters a serpent as old as the ruin itself. The serpent is entrusted in guarding the priceless treasures that lie beneath the ground, and although initially intimidating, the serpent turns out to be insane and rather pitiful. The boy, against the serpent's wishes, robs the tomb of a treasure only to find out that the treasure is [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|cursed in a way that makes it act as a catalyst for human greed]]. The boy is immune to its charms, but other men end up killing each other in order to possess the forbidden prize, and the boy ends up returning the item back to its original place to the smug satisfaction of the serpent.

 

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