![]() At the close of the game, the ghost children warn her even if Coraline wins, the Other Mother will not let them go. If not, Coraline will let the Other Mother sew the buttons into her eyes.Ĭoraline goes through the Other World, and overcomes all the Other Mother's obstacles, using her wits and Miss Spink' stone to locate the Ghost Children's souls. If Coraline wins, she, her parents and the ghost children may go free. The Ghost Children implore Coraline to avoid their fate, and to help find their souls so that they can leave the Other World and pass on.Īfter the Other Mother releases Coraline from the mirror, Coraline proposes a game in which she must find the ghost children's souls and her parents, which lay hidden throughout the Other World. They tell her how she eventually grew bored with them, ate their bodies, and cast their spirits aside. In the darkness, she meets three ghost children, each from a different era, who had let the Beldam (the Other Mother) sew buttons in their eyes. The Other Mother tries to convince Coraline to stay, but Coraline refuses, and is locked behind a mirror as punishment. In the garden, Coraline is prompted by the Cat to challenge the Other Mother, as "her kind of thing loves games and challenges". Though frightened of returning, Coraline goes back to the Other World to confront the Other Mother and rescue her parents. They signal to her by writing "Help Us" on the glass, from which Coraline deduces the Other Mother has kidnapped them. They do not return the next day, and the black cat wakes her and takes her to a mirror in her hallway, through which she can see her trapped parents. Upon her return to her apartment, Coraline finds her real parents are missing. Coraline is horrified and returns back through the door to go home. The Other Mother offers Coraline a chance to stay in the Other World forever, if Coraline will allow buttons to be sewn into her eyes. She even finds the feral black cat that wanders around the house in the real world can talk, however, she learns he is not of the Other World he only travels from one world to another and warns Coraline of the imminent danger, but Coraline pays him no heed. ![]() In this " Other World", Coraline finds everything to be better than her reality: her Other Parents are attentive, her toy box is filled with animate toys that can move and fly, and the Other Miss Spink and Miss Forcible forever perform a cabaret show in their flat. They have button eyes and exaggerated features. ![]() In its place is a long passageway, which leads to a flat identical to her own, inhabited by her Other Mother and Other Father, who are replicas of her real parents. They explain that it will make the unseen seen.ĭespite these warnings, Coraline decides to unlock the door when she is home by herself and finds the brick wall behind the door gone. At tea with Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, Miss Spink spies danger in Coraline's future after reading her tea leaves, and gives her a teal-coloured triangular stone with a single hole in the middle, made out of very old sweets. Bobo relates to her a message from the mice: Don't go through the door. The flat beside Coraline's remains empty.ĭuring a rainy day she discovers a locked door in a downstairs room, which has been bricked up. The other tenants include Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, two elderly women retired from the stage, and Mr. In the film, she is voiced by Dakota Fanning.Ĭoraline Jones and her parents move into an old house that has been divided into flats. She is an adventurous, clever, eleven year old girl and is the daughter of Charlie and Mel Jones. "I'm an explorer." - Coraline Jones, CoralineĬoraline Jones is the main protagonist of the film and book, CORALINE.
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