Graveyard Book as a Bildungsroman

Abstract

This thesis searches for the aspects of Bildungsroman in Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book (2007). In the initial part of the paper, the origins, definitions and features of the genre are presented. The second half of the theoretical background introduces the novel in terms of other genres, such as fantasy and horror, and also describes its connection to The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling. The analytical part essentially searches for the defying moments in the hero's life and describes how those events and situations influence the character's development and the hero's becoming.