SHOE - BOX
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:
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. 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.
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 Project
As a project, we prepared shoe boxes as the whole class
to visualize one of the scenes in the book. The aim was to
show the setting and the characterization. In the picture
you can see some of the different boxes prepared by the
students. They all symbolize a different part of the book.
Prep-B
CORALINE SUMMARY. (n.d.). In Coraline. Retrieved
from http://www.shmoop.com/coraline-book/
summary.html
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