READING
Read the first pages of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and answer the questions.
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NEIL GAIMAN Neil Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels and films. Important works he has written are the comic book series The Sandman and the novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline and The Graveyard Book. He has won many awards, such as the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008). Gaiman often writes fantasy but sets it in contemporary society with a lot of references to mythology and folklore. He has also appeared on The Simpsons and The Big Bang Theory as himself. More information can be found on his website: www.neilgaiman.com.
Source: Kyle Cassidy
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a Complete: the man Jack is a professional .
c Who is his next target?
Source: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
b How many people did the man Jack kill in this scene?
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d Where is his bedroom?
e How did he kill the people in this scene?
The man Jack doesn’t need light. He has ’other skills’. Which other skills do you think he has?
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g Where does the man Jack go next to look for the boy, since he is not in his cot?
The Graveyard Book
Chapter One - How Nobody came to the graveyard There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
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The knife had a handle of polished black bone, and a blade finer and sharper than any razor. If it sliced you, you might not even know you had been cut, not immediately.
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The knife had done almost everything it was brought to that house to do, and both the blade and the handle were wet.
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The man Jack paused on the landing. With his left hand he pulled a large white handkerchief from the pocket of his black coat, and with it he wiped off the knife and his gloved right hand
UNIT 2
SPOOKTACULAR
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The street door was still open, just a little, where the knife and the man who held it had slipped in, and wisps of night-time mist slithered and twined into the house through the open door.
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