CORALINE

Characters

• Coraline
• the cat
• Other Parents
• Ms. Spink and Ms. Forcible
• Mr. B and his mice/rats
• Coraline's Parents

Summary

• 1- The Jones Family moves into the Pink Palace
• 2 - Coraline meets her neighbors and is given the Stone
• 3 - Coraline discovers the Door.
• 4 - Coraline goes through the door and her real parents go missing
• 5 - Coraline gets stuck with her Other Parents

Summary

• 6 - Coraline meets the ghosts of the dead children and decides to escape
• 7 - Coraline finds the souls of the dead children
• 8 - Coraline finds her parents and escapes

THEMATIC ELEMENTS

• Grass is always greener
• The unexplainable

Anti-Hero or Hero?

• Hero
• has anti-heroic qualities

WHAT MAKES IT CREEPY?

• Almost human but not exactly
• Unhuman perfection
• Dark setting of the book
• Familiarity of the other world