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Celestial, Jerica T. II-BSEd English A El116 Fiction Analysis

Title: Coraline Type: Fantasy Summary: Coraline is a young girl who recently moved with her parents to a new apartment. Before the year of school Coraline gets to know her environment, so she gets to know her eccentric new neighbors. Two elders, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, live with their dogs in the apartment underneath the Coraline apartment. A crazy old man who claims to train a mouse circus lives in the apartment above Coraline. While the parents of Coraline work from home, the character often feels solitary and isolated. Coraline must therefore find ways to entertain and enjoy her worldliness. She chooses to explore her own apartment one day. She is intrigued especially by the door that opens onto a brick wall at a corner of the drawing room. One night while she lies wake in her bed, Coraline hears from the hall a mysterious sound. The old door to the dining room is slightly ajar. She examines and realizes. She experiences strange dreams after her exploration. She experiences a series of weird events the following day. The man over her apartment, Coraline runs and tells her that the mice advised Coraline not to enter the door. Coraline then travels to the apartment of Miss Forcible and Miss Spink, where the women warn her that it is in serious danger. Coraline is delighted with the prophecy of her neighbor because she seeks excitement in her boring life. The next day, Coraline stays in the house alone while her mother shops. Coraline decides to take a set of keys and head to the deserted drawing room bored and lonely. She opened the blocked door only to find the bricks were missing. Coraline goes through the door and goes down the dark corridor. Coraline is struck when she enters the hall by the closeness to her empty flat. Everything in your apartment is the same as the wallpaper, carpet and pictures. Her voice sounds like it's her mother's. Coralin hear. She's going down on the corridor, following the voice. In the kitchen, Coraline discovers a woman looking like her mother — with a few differences. The woman is larger, thinner, pale; in place of her eyes, she has black buttons. Coraline seems to have met a world

which is an alternative version of her reality, and which includes "another mother" and "another dad." As she explores the other world outside of her house, Coraline meets a black cat. Coraline starts to talk to the cat, but the creature is rude and cold. She then goes into the other world apartment of Miss Spink and Miss Forcible. Following further research, Coraline realizes that her other mother was the founder of the other world and over the years, she has trapped several children inside. Coraline negotiates with her other mother in order to free all the captured souls that are stuck in the other world. They decide that everyone can be freed if Coraline successfully finds the three souls and her parents in the other world. Coraline designs to find each of the three souls missing. She faces difficulties, but she overcomes all her fears and finds the souls that are missing. Coraline also finds her parents trapped in a small snow globe on the cake on the other side of the globe. While the other mother agreed to let Coraline go if her challenges had been fulfilled successfully, the other mother does not stop at the deal. Coraline is instead forced to escape the other world in a narrow manner. Coraline knows that her parents never noticed she was missing in the safe and sound in the real world. At night she dreams of not being complete in her victory over the other mother because the other mother's hand has escaped into the real world. Coraline traps the hand of her other mother successfully and falls into a well. Officially the other mother was beaten. In the final scene of the roman, Coraline visits her neighbours, who recognize that their lives were finally restored by the disappearance of the villain. Before her first day of the new school year Coraline falls asleep on her bed. Analysis: Coraline is a 2009 American stop-motion animated dark fantasy film written and directed by Henry Selick and based on the 2002 novella of the same name by Neil Gaiman. Produced by Laika as its first feature film, Coraline stars the voices of Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, John Hodgman, Robert Bailey Jr., and Ian McShane. The film depicts an adventurous girl named Coraline finding an idealized parallel world behind a secret door in her new home, unaware that the alternative world contains a dark and sinister secret. Coraline is a girl with a great personality, 11 years old. She is regarded for her age as a snarc, rebellious, adventurous, interesting and creative girl. She's a quick and witty thinker, too. Coraline can be made worse by adults, and because of her young age and outgoing behavior, people do not take her seriously. The strong themes in this story are home, appreciation of what you've got, and courage. In the novel, Coraline discovers that, despite its shortcomings, her home is the one she loves and will never leave. She also learns to be courageous and reliant on herself in order to protect those she cares for. The lessons that Coraline taught us, is that learn to love imperfections because sometimes perfection is nothing but a dangerous temptation. Also, Coraline is a lesson for all those parents who don’t have enough time for their children. In a world where we barely have time, sometimes we neglect what’s important and forget our fundamental values.

Literary Elements 

Setting and Context

Coraline and her parents move to a new apartment, where they find an odd door going nowhere. She makes up her mind to find what's beyond the door, a curious and determined child. The story is placed outside the door in the apartment and in the "other world." 

Narrator and Point of View

The story has a third-person narrator and follows Coraline's perspective. 

Tone and Mood

The narrator’s tone is direct and sharp. The mood is ominous. 

Protagonist and Antagonist

Coraline Jones is the protagonist of the story. The antagonist is the "other mother," also known as the beldam. 

Major Conflict

Coraline must find a way to free her parents, the souls of the three ghost children, and herself from the beldam's other world. 

Climax

When the cat attacks his other mother, Coraline robs the snow world from the coat. The point is the story's climax. She closes the door quickly and thus consolidates her victory over the Belldam. 

Foreshadowing

The tea leaves at the bottom of Coralina cup were read by Miss Forcible and Miss Spink. You find that she's seriously at risk. 

Understatement

"I really don't mind what you're doing," Coraline's mother said, "as long as you don't make a mess." This is a misunderstanding, since Coraline's parents care clearly for the safety and safety of their daughter. It's also ironic, since Coraline gets into a major mess she never wanted to have. 

Allusions

The story alludes to The Chronicles of Narnia and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 

Imagery

The sequence of dreams is full of visual pictures. In addition, the smell of "old tobacco and wine" that is prevalent as it descends into the corridor exemplifies olfactory imagery. 

Parallelism

When Miss Forcible and Miss Spink act in their home theater in the otherworld, their performance parallels their eccentricity in the real world. 

Metonymy and Synecdoche

When Coraline speaks about how the other mother exerts influence, she uses synecdoche. "She uses [the mice] as her eyes and paws..." she says. "Eyes" and "hands" in this example indicate help/assistance. When the other mother tells Coraline that she has her heart, this is an example of metonymy. 

Personification

An example of personification is the cat. It possesses human qualities, including sarcasm and emotion.

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