Nobody looses Scarlett

When I read the second chapter of “The Graveyard Book” I found passages that relate to my own life (which in my opinion is quite amazing because the book takes place on a graveyard!). But first let me explain what the chapter is about:

The main character Nobody (Bod for short) is five years old now and is learning to write by copying the words on the tombstones, when a girl his age called Scarlett asks him what he is doing. They become friends and spend some time together every day. But at the end of the chapter Bod gets to know that Scarlett is going to move to Scotland and they have to say goodbye.

I know how it feels to loose friends because when I was the same age as Bod I moved to another city with my family. I had to leave all of my kindergarten friends behind. I was very sad about this: I dictated my mother letters to my friends and put pictures of them on my window sill. But the boy in the book isn’t able to write any letters and he also hasn’t got any memorabilia. Furthermore after some days at the new kindergarten I had found new friends, but Bod probably will not find any new friends because a graveyard is not a place where you usually meet other kids.

So it has to be much worse for Nobody to loose Scarlett than it was for myself and I feel sorry for him.

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