Bod's Name: A Short Story

“He looks like nobody but himself, he looks like nobody” whispered Mrs. Owens. Neil Gaiman preferred not to reveal Bod’s real name because in the story Bod would not have recognized his name, he would not have learned how to acknowledge his name. He also did that because if he did put Bod’s name in the story it would have not been important later in the story. His parents perished and it did not matter that Bod’s name was still the name that his parents called him. If Bod had known his name then the Owense 's would not have known Bod’s name because he was too young to speak his name or even apprehend it. If Neil did put his name in then it would not have been a mystery to us about where he came from or who his parents were or why the man Jack