Coraline By Neil Gaiman Analysis
Intro
Your family, the people who are supposed to love you unconditionally. What happens when something comes along and gives you the ideal family? Perhaps it's all just too perfect, and the true colors are hidden right under the surface. You may love your family, but what if when you realize this love, it’s all too late? Your family is gone and what seemed to be perfect is just that; what it appeared to be. The author Neil Gaiman has published a series of well-written novels. In this essay, I am going to be focusing on the text "Coraline."
Resume
The text ´Coraline´ is about a pre-teen aged girl who just moved to a small town. In the beginning we see her running around with a witching stick looking for the bottomless well. On the way she is …show more content…
In this text we have a subjective first-Person narrator. Neil Gaiman’s narrative technique in this text uses the character's perspective, instead of a unaffiliated narrators. The text is very action-packed because we don’t have a lot of breaks where nothing exciting or frightening is happening. The theme and message in this text is very interesting, because it is nothing like you would imagine. I believe that the theme in this text is loneliness and identity confusion like in many other of Neil Gaiman's texts. I think it is loneliness and identity confusion because our main character has just moved away from her friends and her parents don’t have time to spend with her because of their work, because she has no one to talk to she makes up a magical place where everyone notices her and her new parents do everything that her real parents don’t do for or with her. It all goes away at the same time that her parents suddenly have time to spend with her. The other theme is identity confusion, because she doesn’t know how to be in this new place, she wants to stand out from the crowd which is also why she wants her mom to buy her colorful gloves, as no one else will have these in her new school. Another way Coraline wants to stand out is by having a unique name, everyone calls her Caroline and she corrects them every
Your family, the people who are supposed to love you unconditionally. What happens when something comes along and gives you the ideal family? Perhaps it's all just too perfect, and the true colors are hidden right under the surface. You may love your family, but what if when you realize this love, it’s all too late? Your family is gone and what seemed to be perfect is just that; what it appeared to be. The author Neil Gaiman has published a series of well-written novels. In this essay, I am going to be focusing on the text "Coraline."
Resume
The text ´Coraline´ is about a pre-teen aged girl who just moved to a small town. In the beginning we see her running around with a witching stick looking for the bottomless well. On the way she is …show more content…
In this text we have a subjective first-Person narrator. Neil Gaiman’s narrative technique in this text uses the character's perspective, instead of a unaffiliated narrators. The text is very action-packed because we don’t have a lot of breaks where nothing exciting or frightening is happening. The theme and message in this text is very interesting, because it is nothing like you would imagine. I believe that the theme in this text is loneliness and identity confusion like in many other of Neil Gaiman's texts. I think it is loneliness and identity confusion because our main character has just moved away from her friends and her parents don’t have time to spend with her because of their work, because she has no one to talk to she makes up a magical place where everyone notices her and her new parents do everything that her real parents don’t do for or with her. It all goes away at the same time that her parents suddenly have time to spend with her. The other theme is identity confusion, because she doesn’t know how to be in this new place, she wants to stand out from the crowd which is also why she wants her mom to buy her colorful gloves, as no one else will have these in her new school. Another way Coraline wants to stand out is by having a unique name, everyone calls her Caroline and she corrects them every