Love/Care
Coraline's other mother expresses her "love" through material items
Claim: Agree/Disagree (Full-sentence statement)
Evidence: One quote (28)
Analysis: how does the evidence support the claim. (this quote shows...)
Claim: Coraline's other mother expresses her "love" through material items
Evidence: “There were all sorts of remarkable things in there she’d never seen before: windup angels that fluttered around the bedroom like startled sparrows; books with pictures that writhed and crawled and shimmered; little dinosaur skulls that chattered their teeth as she passed. A whole toy box filled with wonderful toys. This is more like it, thought Coraline” (28)
Analysis: This quote describes all the material things that the other mother puts in Coraline's room. She includes windup toys and dinosaur skulls that Coraline does not have in the real world to show Coraline her love and ultimately manipulate her to stay.
The nature and trees in the other world looks exactly like the real world
Claim: Agree/Disagree (Full-sentence statement)
Evidence: One quote (70)
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Claim: The nature and trees in the other world look stranger than they do in the real world
Evidence: “In this place, the woods went on farther, the trees becoming cruder and less treelike the farther you went. Pretty soon they seemed very approximate, like the idea of trees: a grayish-brown trunk below, a greenish splodge of something that might have been leaves above” (70).
Analysis: The trees are described to be less tree-like here. This shows that it is different from the real world and the other world is a strange, uncanny and unfamiliar place
Bravery is all about facing your fears even when you are scared
Claim: Agree/Disagree (Full-sentence statement)
Evidence: One quote (57)
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Claim: To be brave is to feel your fear but to do it anyway.
Evidence: “Because,” she said,“when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave” (57)
Analysis: This quote shows how Coraline feels about bravery and that she thinks true bravery is feeling all the fear and still choosing to do it anyway. Coraline uses this belief as she faces the other mother in the other world
Coraline is curious about things she is not familiar with
Claim: Agree/Disagree (Full-sentence statement)
Evidence: One quote (24)
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Claim: Coraline is often curious about things that she does not know about.
Evidence: “She wondered what the empty flat would be like—if that was where the corridor led. Coraline walked down the corridor uneasily.There was something very familiar about it” (24)
Analysis: This quote shows that even though Coraline thinks the corridor is a little strange, she still wanted to explore and walk through it. This shows her curious nature and often wants to find things that will interest her.
Coraline wants to live in a world where she gets everything she ever wants all the time
Claim: Agree/Disagree (Full-sentence statement)
Evidence: One quote (pg 118)
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Claim: Coraline does not want to live in a world where she gets everything she ever wants all the time
Evidence: "I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn't mean anything?” (118).
Analysis: This quote shows that Coraline realizes that she actually does not want to get everything she asks for because that would be no fun. This shows a point of growth in Coraline's character because she had a different opinion about this at the beginning of the text
Coraline's other mother is possessive and controlling
Claim: Agree/Disagree (Full-sentence statement)
Evidence: One quote (104)
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Claim: Coraline's other mother is possessive and controlling
Evidence: Coraline’s other mother loves her like a “miser loves gold” (104).
Analysis: This quote shows that Coraline's other mother is very controlling because her love is like a miser and a miser just wants to possess their mother rather than truly care for and love it. Coraline now knows that love is about more than just material things and sometimes her parents are not perfect but they love her and don't just want to control her
The more time Coraline spends in the other world, the more strange looking her other parents get
Claim: Agree/Disagree (Full-sentence statement)
Evidence: One quote (68)
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Claim: The more time Coraline spends in the other world, the more strange looking her other parents get.
Evidence: "He looked less like her true father today. There was something slightly vague about his face—like bread dough that had begun to rise, smoothing out the bumps and cracks and depressions (68). "
Analysis: This quote shows that her other father looks different than how she first saw him, this skin is like bread dough and started to rise. This change in appearance signals that something bad may happen to her and reinforces the idea of how strange and different the other world truly is from Coraline's real world.
Coraline is never scared.
Claim: Agree/Disagree (Full-sentence statement)
Evidence: One quote (100)
Analysis: how does the evidence support the claim. (this quote shows...)
Claim: Coraline is scared sometimes.
Evidence: She had never been so scared, but still she walked forward until she reached the sac.Then she pushed her hand into the sticky, clinging whiteness of the stuff on the wall (100).
Analysis: This quote shows that she is really scared in the other world. But even though she is scared, she still chooses to walk forward. This is how Coraline defines bravery because she thinks it is about feeling the fear and doing it anyway. At this moment, Coraline is scared but still chooses to be brave.
At the beginning of the book, Coraline is bored all the time
Claim: Agree/Disagree (Full-sentence statement)
Evidence: One quote (4)
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Claim: At the beginning of the book, Coraline is bored all the time
Evidence “Coraline had watched all the videos. She was bored with her toys, and she’d read all her books” (4).
Analysis: This quote shows that Coraline has run out of things to do and she is not interested in the things she has in the real world and wants more in her life.
Coraline's other mother never tries to manipulate Coraline with things that she doesn't have in the real world.
Claim: Agree/Disagree (Full-sentence statement)
Evidence: One quote (117)
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Claim: Coraline's other mother often tries to manipulate Coraline with things that she doesn't have in the real world
Evidence: Stay here with us,” said the voice from the figure at the end of the room.“We will listen to you and play with you and laugh with you.Your other mother will build whole worlds for you to explore, and tear them down every night when you are done. Every day will be better and brighter than the one that went before. Remember the toy box? How much better would a world be built just like that, and all for you?” (117).
Analysis: This quote shows that the other mother uses toys, time and attention to try to convince Coraline to stay. She tries to tell Coraline that a world that is built just for her will make her happy because she thinks that Coraline believes that too.
At the end of the book, Coraline is still ungrateful for her parents
Claim: Agree/Disagree (Full-sentence statement)
Evidence: One quote (pg 137)
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Claim: At the end of the book, Coraline is grateful for her parents
Evidence: “Probably had things to do,” said Coraline. Then she hugged her mother so tightly that her arms began to ache. Her mother hugged Coraline back. (137),.
Analysis: This quote shows that Coraline now understands that even though her parents can't always be there to play with her, they always take care of her and let her be herself without trying to control her. We can see that she is grateful because she hugs her mother "so tightly"
The other mother is not manipulative and does not want to keep her trapped in this world forever.
Claim: Agree/Disagree (Full-sentence statement)
Evidence: One quote (43)
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Claim: The other mother is manipulative and wants to keep her trapped in this world forever
Evidence: “If you want to stay,” said her other father,“there’s only one little thing we’ll have to do, so you can stay here for ever and always.” They went into the kitchen. On a china plate on the kitchen table was a spool of black cotton, and a long silver needle, and, beside them, two large black buttons (43).
Analysis: This shows that the other mother has transactional relationship with Coraline and wants her to sew buttons in her eyes, give up her old life in order to get good food, toys and "love" from the other mother. This shows her manipulative nature and her true intentions with Coraline.
Coraline's father is not brave
Claim: Agree/Disagree (Full-sentence statement)
Evidence: One quote (56)
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Claim: Coraline's father is brave
Evidence: Coraline explains to the cat that her father was brave for going back for glasses, not for simply being stung, because he went back despite being afraid. (Paraphrase 56). (56).
Analysis: This quote shows that Coraline uses her father as an example of bravery because he knows that there are wasps in the field but decides to go back anyway. In this example, her father chooses to be brave
At the end of the book, Coraline still thinks her real world is boring
Claim: Agree/Disagree (Full-sentence statement)
Evidence: One quote (135)
Analysis: how does the evidence support the claim. (this quote shows...)
Claim: At the end of the book, Coraline no longer thinks her real world is boring
Evidence: “Nothing, she thought, had ever been so interesting. And, caught up in the interestingness of the world” (135).
Analysis: This quote shows that when Coraline returns home, she thinks the trees and nature and everything around her is interesting. This shows that she now has a new perspective and things that used to be boring to her is now interesting.
Coraline likes the other world when she first visits.
Claim: Agree/Disagree (Full-sentence statement)
Evidence: One quote (28)
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Coraline likes the other world when she first visited
Evidence: "This is more like it, thought Coraline. She looked out of the window. Outside, the view was the same one she saw from her own bedroom: trees, fields, and beyond them, on the horizon, distant purple hills (28)." (with the toys)
Analysis: This shows that Coraline finds the other world interesting and is entertained by the view outside the window and the toys in her room. The other world seems to have everything that she ever wanted.