Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. HarperCollins Publishers, 2015. In Coraline, Gaiman tells the story of an adventurous little girl who, when ignored by her parents, seeks adventure and affection elsewhere. Beginning with a little door to nowhere, the story gets increasingly darker as Coraline receives warnings from her various neighbors that even they do not understand. And…
The Voice Behind Coraline
The story of Coraline written by Neil Gaiman is one giant spiderweb, with unsuspecting victims tangled in its deceiving web of lies. I found my heart racing with every chapter attempting to decipher reality. I felt my self-regressing slowly into a child with every page I turned, questioning my knowledge and subconscious. I walked through…
Coraline: The Mystery Behind the Door
Upon reading Coraline we can see now how Slade House and Coraline can be compared as a mystery reading. Why we may ask both are stories that have to be read, analyzed and try to find the means that are hidden between the sentence and the scenes in the book. For instances what is hiding…
Coraline: Seeing through the eyes of a child
For our most recent reading we’re still in the horror genre, and yet, there’s something different. In our last series of blogs we were discussing Slade House. Our last topic was the rhetoric of Slade House and who could the narrator, Norah, possibly be addressing throughout the novel. Now we’re in a whole different territory,…
Coraline: Let’s go through the little door
Stepping into one of Neil Gaiman’s works always feels the same for me. It’s as if I’ve been to this world before —maybe once a long time ago— but now I can’t seem to remember anything about it. It’s sort of like walking through your own house, but everything is turned at a 15 degree…
Group Four 