Summary
Okay… so Coraline is trapped in the mirror in the end of the corridor. And she was almost ready to cry, when she heard something. Was it a voice?
- Hush! And shush say nothing for the beldam can hear you! Said the random voice in the dark.
And suddenly, Coraline felt someone touched her shoulder. Then another voice said
- Are you alive?
- Yes… answered Coraline.
- Poor child said the first voice again.
- Who are you? Asked coralline.
- Names, names, names said one of the voices, all far away and lost. The names are the first things to go, after the breath is gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names. I still keep pictures of my real mother… told the first voice.
Coraline listen, and began to see something in the dark. She thought she saw three pale shapes, three children in her own age, one boy and two girls and they were ghosts. And they told Coraline that the other mother had treated them, like she does with Coraline, she also took their hearts and souls and then she leaved them in the dark mirror.
- You must flee! Flee while you can! Said one of the ghost girls.
- No, I'm not running away! She has my parents!
The ghost tries to prevail Coraline to listen and that it's impossible, but she won't stay. And when they realized that, they asked if Coraline could free their souls instead which the other mother had taken.
- But what is the other mother going to do with me? Asked Coraline.
- She will take your life and all you cares for, she will leave you here, and one day you´ll awake and your heart and soul will be gone. So you must flee! Answered one of the ghosts.
- No, I'm tired of running away, it doesn't work anyway said Coraline.
And the last thing, the ghosts told Coraline before she fell asleep was:
- Look through the stone with the hole in it.
In this chapter of the book describes Neil Gaiman the environment around Coraline very good.
So good that you can almost se it with your own eyes. And it's so exciting to read the book! It always happens things you never could imagine, almost scary and nasty stuffs thou.
Sometimes It gives me shivers, and I want to put the book behind me on my ´wardrobe, but I can't because its so exciting! But now, back to the summery, when Coraline gets out of the mirror…
Well, the other mother had pushed away the magic mirror portal and starred down at Coraline when she was asleep. And picked her up and carried her to the kitchen and dropped her on a chair.
Coraline woke up and discovered that she was in the kitchen with the other mother. She got breakfast and ate it up. Then she asked if the other mother wanted to play a game, but not an ordinary game, it was an exploring game. Coraline challenged the other mother just as the cat told her to do, and offered herself as a price if she would lose. But if she won, Coraline wanted her parents back and the ghosts in the mirror released.
- A deal, and it won't hurt you … said the other mother.
- So, where should I start looking, said Coraline.
- Where you wish, answered the other mother like she didn't care. She sat down on a chair and looked at Coraline, while she tapped the fingers gently, tap-tap-tap, against the table.
Coraline turned around for a second and when she looked back was the other mother gone, and realized that the tap-tap noise came from the water tap. Coraline shivered and took up the stone with the hole in it, and walked upstairs to her room, but she didn't find anything. So she went outside instead.
And walked to Miss Spink and Miss Forcible´s flat. (The other two old ladies who lived in the same house as Coraline) she went down the steps and trough the door. It was as dark as the grave in there, and she didn't see Miss Spink or Forcible. She went in to the great theatre hall, and looked up to the ceiling. There was something who hang there. It looked liked dog-bats, dogs with wings like bats and who hanged upside-down.
And then at the middle of the stage was something else. Coraline remembered the ghost voice who told her to look through the stone. So she put the stone in front of her eye and looked through it. And then she saw a green light from the stage. There was something behind the back wall. It was grayish-white and big. Coraline walked forward to the thing. And she was very scared. She got closer to the thing, it looked like a sac like a spider´s egg-case. And inside the sac was something that looked like a person, but a person with two hands…
Okay, I have read this far and I can nearly stop. It's so exciting! And I don't know what to expect. As I said earlier you can´t imagine what will happened next. But I fell like something important and big will happen.
And when it happen maybe someone will come and save her, or maybe she gets out of it by her own. I don't know but I can't wait to find out! So you will see what happened to Coraline in my next post.
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