Coraline

By: Neil Gainam

(England)

Summary of the story:

Our story starts out when a young lady named Coraline Jones moves into an apartment in an old house with her parents. Her neighbors include two elderly retired actresses and a strange man who lives upstairs and trains mice for a circus act. Despite this weirdness, Coraline is very bored. Her parents work a lot and they tend to just ignore her.

One day, Coraline discovers a door with a brick wall behind it. Seems kind of strange, right? But get this: when she opens the door later, there's a hallway back there. Now that's strange. When Coraline goes through the door, she ends up in an entirely different world: it's kind of like her own, but something's a little off. In the other world, Coraline has another mother (the beldam), another father, and other neighbors. And bonus, cats can talk.

Coraline decides this other world is weird (we agree) and so she heads back home. But when she arrives, her parents are missing: the beldam has kidnapped them, and Coraline will have to go back into the creepy other world to rescue them. Fast forward a bit: and, spoiler alert, she succeeds! She gets her parents back and, in the meantime, also rescues the trapped souls of three kidnapped children who have been stuck in the other world for a long time. Coraline beats the evil beldam, saves the day, and returns home.

But wait: it's not quite over. It turns out the other mother's hand has followed Coraline home (it's like Thing on the Addams Family!). Coraline plays one last trick to trap the other mother's hand in a deep well. Phew, finally the scariness is over. After all this excitement, Coraline is ready to start the school year; and boy, is school going to seem really tame by comparison.

Background of the Author:

Coraline is a popular stop-motion movie released in 2009. While the film appears to be aimed at young people, Coraline’s imagery tells a hidden story: The programming of a mind control slave at the hands of a sadistic handler. We’ll look at the hidden meaning of the movie Coraline.

Appreciation of the story:

Most of the Filipino’s are known as “imaginary” kind of person. It is because of our imaginary side they can make fictional stories that we called Epiko, Alamat, Bugtong and, Maiking Kuwento. We all know that Filipino is prone in making stories that is very fictional and unbelievable mostly the places, things and plants are its own name here in the Philippine. The horror stories are common because most of the writers are imagining or questioning there selves why theirs a monsters that they called “manananggal ,tik-tik  ,tikbalang, kapre, and white lady.” The story about a syndrome of a kind isn’t popular but some writers they are trying to conveyed their audience to engage. Theirs a one story that in tells that a kid is talking to someone that she is only the one who know that person. Just like in Coraline when she dreamed it is really true to her that her other parents is really love her so much so she’d choose to sleep. After she demands that she want a parent that could care her much and bond with her.  At last she regret about what she do because she rather want to choose her other because it could make her happy.

I’d experience at one time in my life. I’m so ambitious in so many things .At my grade-10 regime I’m so ambitious I’ve strive so hard because I want to show to our First honor that she’s not deserved at the top so I want to show to her that I can show to her my brilliant side. In 3^rd grading I failed because I just focus on my favorite subjects that I know I can be at the top then my Math was 77% that was really frustrating and I was so depressed at that certain times because of watching the workers of the others so I failed. I realized at one time in my life that I should focus on my worker then I should challenge myself to strive harder by not watching the workers of the others then I will be at the top by watching my own workers.