Coraline - third post

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.  

// Einztein

 

Coraline - second post

What I have read:

Now I have reached page 96 in my book, and the thing that I thought would happened in the next chapter happened.

Coraline went through the door to look for her parents.

But she had company, by a cat who is a kind of a friend to her.

I haven't mentioned the cat before because I didn't know if it was so important. But now when I know that … it is important I will tell you about it sooner. But now back to the summary.

Well… Coraline and the cat walk together through the long corridor until coraline suddenly sees a woman who stands at the end of the corridor. The woman looked like her real mother so she ran forward trough the corridor.

-          Coraline darling, why did you ever run away from me? Sad the woman who obviously is her other mother.

-          Where are my parents? Asked coralline angry.

-          We´re here, and we are ready to love you, answered the other mother.

And then the other father appeared, he sat in a chair.

-          Come in to the kitchen, he said, I´ll make us some midnight snack.

-          I don't need a snack! Said Coraline courageous.

The other father looked disappointed. But the other mother smiled. Then she tried to fool Coraline by saying that her real parents were bored at her. But Coraline were smart, so she didn't believe that. Ans the other mother takes the key (to the door that leads out) and put it in her pocket.

-          Don't you have a own key on this side? Asked Coraline.

-          No, there is only one key, and one door… said the other father.

-          Hush! Hushed the other mother like he´d said too much.  

-         

After that, coralline was about to go to bed. But she couldn't sleep. So she went out to the garden, and met the cat. And they talked about Coralines other mother:

-          Why does she want me? Asked Coralline.

-          I think she wants something to love, something that isn't her, answered the cat.  Or something to eat, it's hard to tell with creatures like that.

-          Do you have any advice?

-          You can challenge her, there is no guarantee she´ll play fair, said the cat, her kind of thing loves games and challenges.

Coralline asked what the cat mended with that but it didn't answer, it just walked away and said that Coraline should go inside. And that's what she did.

Early next morning, Coraline did not know where she was, until after a while when she realized that she was in the other world.

She pulled on a pair of jeans and a grey sweater with stars on.

When she was clear, she went to the kitchen, and there sat her other father. The other mother wasn't there, She was outside and fixed the doors do keep the cat inside told the other father, he also told that it was nothing there to explore when Coraline was on her way out. 

The other mother had made everything: the house, the garden and all the persons in the house while she waited.

But Coraline went out to the garden either way, she started to walk. After a time of walking, Coraline came till a strange place filled with mist.

Then, she got company again, the cat of cause. 

-          This is a bad place, said the cat, If you want to call it a place… and what are you doing here?

-          I'm exploring said Coraline.

-          Nothing to find here. This is the outside, the part that she didn't bothered to create said the cat.

-          She? My other mother? Asked Coraline, what is she?

The cat didn't answer. They walked forward instead until a house appeared in front of them. It looked exactly like the house that Coraline just left. Maybe she got lost in the mist? Thought Coraline.

-          So, she did this place?

-          Made it, found it, what the difference? Said the cat and ran after a mouse.

Coraline walked into the house, it was quiet and dark. Then she and saw the mirror in the long corridor, and her reflection in it, just hers.

And suddenly a hand touched her shoulder, it was her other mothers hand.

-          Coraline my darling, said the other mother, I thought that we could play some games together now this morning.

Coraline thanked no and asked were her real parents were, and why she didn't see the other mother's reflection in the mirror. 

-          Mirrors, answered the mother. Mirrors can´t be trusted.

She walked into the sitting room and sat down on a big sofa. And took up a shopping bag field with black beetles.

-          Would you like to have some black beetles, asked the other mother.

-          No! You're sick! Yelled Coraline.

-          That's not a way to speak to your mother!

-          You aren't my mother!

The other mother got angry and stood up, and tock Coraline to the mirror. She was taller this time, taller than she remembered. And then the other mother unlocked the mirror with a little tiny silver key. She twisted the key in the mirror, and it opened like a door.

It was dark inside the mirror.

-          You may come out when you're ready to be a loving daughter, said the mother, and pushed Coraline into the mirror, closed it, and leaved Coraline alone in the darkness…

What I think will happen:

Hm… I don't really know what to happen next…? Maybe the cat comes and helps her out? I don't know. Or maybe there is another world in the mirror? No, it would be too complicated.

Describing the cat:

The cat has no name. It says that it doesn't need a one. She will recognize it, and all of the other cats knows who it is any way.

The cat lives in both of the worlds, the real one and the other one. But it can just talk to Coraline in the other World.

The cat seems very strange… it feels like it´s hiding something that it doesn't want to tell, or have permission to…

// Einztein

   

 

Coraline - first post

I read the book Coraline. It's about a girl called Coraline, who moves to a new house with her mother and father, and she finds a little hidden door in their new drawing room. And one night when she is about to go to bed, she sees something that glides through the long corridor and in to the drawing room. Coraline wanted to know what it was so she followed, turned the lights on and discovered that the little door stood open… but she knew that her mother locked it.

That's the beginning of this little scary and unusual book which is written by Nail Gaiman.

And in just that part I got a little scared.

The personality and characters in this book is very special. We can take Coraline first for an example. She is intelligent, brave and always on her way to discover new things and places. You can get prows from that when read the beginning.

But if we think a little bit of Coralines real parents and her fake parents then? You can find many differences, but so many similarities.  Most of the differences is their appearance but also some personality.

Coralines real parents are not so funny, but her "other parents" is. Her "other parents" are long, pale and tiny, and they've got buttons for eyes. Her real parents don't have that. 

What I have read

A while ago I passed the page 69, and many things have happened until then, many wired and nasty things.

I can start to tell you that Coraline went through the door that she discovered, and find another place.  Not quite a whole new place, it was the same place she had at home, same old house and same rooms and the same garden but there were fog everywhere.  Something was not right.

Her parents where there too, but they weren't the same. They were different… for example, they got big black buttons for eyes, and they were long, tiny and pale, their hands looked a bit like claws too. 

That's a thing that I have thought about, what if you finds a little door or something else that leads you to something new. It could be a thing, a fantasy place or a dream. But think this too, it's not an ordinary thing, place or dream but it's real. And it's not always a good dream that you dream. It could be a nightmare…

And that's what is going to happen with Coraline. Because her "other parents" says that she could stay there forever, there was just one little thing that she had to do. Sewing in buttons for eyes, just like them.

But Coraline didn't want that so she ran away, through the little door and came home.

But she was alone, her real parents wasn't there. They were gone… And there were a message left for her in the mirror that sad: "help us". Maybe it was from her parents? Maybe, maybe not or was it a trap?

What's going to happen?

The next thing that's going too happened is that I think that Coraline gets back to the "other world" to save her parents from her "other bad fake parents". But I don't think that it's going to be easy for Coraline. Her "other parents" are surely going to do something bad and nasty to her. But maybe she finds a friend that will help her, or maybe that friend is bad too? You never know.

But one thing that I know for sure is that Coraline is going to make it, in one way or another because of her braveness and intelligence.

/Einstein