The Sleer is a mysterious being that resides in the graveyard's barrow grave. Bod only sees the Sleer once; it's huge, with three heads featuring indigo designs and the body of a snake. It speaks in a hissing, slithery voice, and Bod can also hear its body slithering around the walls of the barrow grave's chamber.
The Sleer was the thing protecting treasure of their master. They protected the treasure of their master by scaring people away from the inside of the barrow.
The Indigo Man doesn't seem to be a living being, but rather an image projected by the Sleer to scare off greedy treasure-seekers. He's a huge guy with purple (indigo) tattoos all over its face. It sounds very similar to the faces of the Sleer's three heads.
The only non-dead person to ever get Freedom of the Graveyard is the stranger, Silas, who made Jack leave the graveyard. But, as Caius points out, Silas isn't alive. Unlike the inhabitants of the graveyard, Silas can come and go freely.
Part of the fun of this novel is playing “Guess What Kind of Creature Silas Is.” Some of you probably figured it out pretty fast, but if you're like us, it took a little while. OK, we'll just say it: Silas is a vampire. The clues are blended into the story so smoothly that we barely notice them at first.
The Sleer is a mysterious being that resides in the graveyard's barrow grave. Bod only sees the Sleer once; it's huge, with three heads featuring indigo designs and the body of a snake. It speaks in a hissing, slithery voice, and Bod can also hear its body slithering around the walls of the barrow grave's chamber.
How did Bod learn to read and write? Silas had him search for letters on tombstones and copy them. Mrs. Owens read him "Cat and the Hat" so he could learn to rhyme.
They're definitely people of some sort, but the novel identifies all the characters as people. They're not dead people, for sure. They don't seem to have any super-human physical abilities, other than maybe a sharp sense of smell.
Scarlett is Bod's only living friend throughout his childhood. Five-year-old Scarlett meets Bod when her parents take her to play in the graveyard, but her parents believe that Bod is just Scarlett's imaginary friend.
The Lady on the Grey is a mythical woman on a big white horse. She comes for people when they die and takes them to their death on the back of her horse. All the ghosts respect her and fear her, so when she encourages the graveyard's residents to take Bod in, they listen. Bod dances with her during the Macabray.
What did the Sleer mean when he told BOD to find his name?
Further, telling Bod to find his name recalls Liza's sadness about not having a headstone. The Sleer implies that Bod is missing part of his identity because he doesn't know the name he was given at birth, which makes Bod feel even more like he has to go through with meeting Mr. Frost.
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We argue that Scarlett points out that Bod might enjoy his revenge a little too much, which Scarlett doesn't like at all. She says to Bod, “You aren't a person. People don't behave like you. You're as bad as he was.
Bod is the most Goth kid you'll ever meet – he lives in a graveyard and is raised by ghosts, a vampire, and a werewolf, for Pete's sake. He has Freedom of the Graveyard, which means he can communicate with the dead, move through walls, and is invisible to most humans (so long as he's in the graveyard).
Why did Silas feel that BOD was ready for a change?
Why did Silas feel that Bod was ready for change? Silas felt that now that the Jacks were gone and Bod was a young man, it was time for him to leave the graveyard, to live among the living, and to experience life. How did Bod's visits with Alanso Jones help prepare him for the next chapter of his life?
When Bod is fourteen years old, he's reunited with his old friend Scarlett Amber Perkins. Things are going great between them until Scarlett accidentally leads Bod face-to-face with the man who killed his family, Jack Frost. Bod battles Jack Frost and three other Jacks in the graveyard and wins.
The Sleer's says that if Bod will be its master, it will keep Bod with it forever and ever and ever. Bod says he isn't that guy. Now the Sleer changes its mind about giving advice and says, “THEN FIND YOUR NAME” (7.322).
How did Bod display courage in the face of the Sleer?
Conclusion. This quote shows courage because the first time bod met the sleer he was afraid of it but he now knows he shouldn't be as the sleer uses fear as a way of defending the treasure. He also needed the brooch to buy Liza a gravestone so he used his courage to run down into the tomb and take it.
Later, four-year-old Bod befriends a five-year-old living girl named Scarlett Amber Perkins. They spend time together in the graveyard. One day they visit a mausoleum in the graveyard and encounter an imaginary corpse called the Indigo Man and the slithering creature named the Sleer.
The Graveyard Book ends when Bod is about fifteen years old. We see him gradually losing his Freedom of the Graveyard powers (must be puberty), and then leaving the graveyard by himself with money, a passport, and big, big dreams.
She tells him about all the kinds of "people" in the world, including ghouls and Hounds of God. She also teaches him “ways to call for help in every language in the world” (3.68). Teaching Bod to cry for help in Night-Gaunt (the language of the night-gaunts, of course) soon helps him escape Hell and the ghouls.
