Animal Motifs: The novel describes the Other Mother using various bits of spidery imagery she's made into a full-blown spider lady in the film.And You Were There: Everyone in the Other World is (deliberately) based on someone Coraline knows in the mortal world.All Your Powers Combined: When Coraline is fleeing the Other World for the final time, she struggles to close the door, and calls upon the ghost children - who she's saved by now - and her parents to help her they're able to channel strength to her to seal the passage.and feed, dress, and take the souls of children so she can possess them completely. All Take and No Give: The Other Mother just wants something to love other than herself.

They ultimately can't help her defeat the Other Mother - only Coraline can willingly pass between the worlds - but they do what they can from their end to aid her. Bobo sends her a message that warns of danger. Miss Spink and Miss Forcible provide some genuine help to Coraline, while Mr. Meanwhile, their Other World counterparts always call her by her correct name. Bobo mistakenly call Coraline 'Caroline', despite her repeatedly correcting them.

Accidental Misnaming: Miss Spink, Miss Forcible, and Mr.

But something oddly sinister lurks just beneath the surface.Ī graphic novel adaptation was released in 2008, and an animated adaptation was released in 2009 tropes for the latter can be found here. Behind that door lies a different world where Coraline finds other versions of her parents who dote on her, spoiling her with wonderful toys and home-cooked meals.

Then, one afternoon, she opens a mysterious door in her house. Having recently moved into a new home without any friends around, she finds life utterly boring. Coraline is a 2002 novella written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave McKean.Ĭoraline Jones is a girl with loving but distracted and inattentive parents.

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