Contrast and contradiction

In the fifth chapter the dead and the living meet and dance together. In my opinion the author is bringing up a main contrast: When you read the book you automatically think that Bod belongs to the ghosts of the graveyard because he is living with them and calls Mr and Mrs Owens his parents, although they are dead. But after this scene you realise that Bod is a living boy who should be able to live like other kids of his age (now he is ten years old). For example at the beginning of the chapter his guardian Silas gives proper clothes to Bod who until then had been wearing only a cloth.

After I finished the chapter I noticed a contradiction: The author said that the living cannot remember the dance with the dead, but then why can Bod remember it? The writer does not give a solution for this, but I think it is because Bod has the “freedom of the graveyard” which means that he is able to see the dead and, for example, can see in the dark and is able to go through the walls of the graves.

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