Essay on Coraline’s Mentor

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Ben Martenson
ENGL 11:45-12:35

What I really like a lot was the creepy, weird, and spooky book called Coraline. I thought it was a terrific book because you had to figure out so many things about her and the book. Coralline was an explorer, love exploring so much that moved into a creepy awful house she did not like at all. She always wanted to explore when she was there because it was so boring and they lived next to a garden and there were some old people that lived in the basement name Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and Mr. Bobo is the strange old man who lives upstairs. Coraline always felt uncomfortable being around them and they always pissed her off because they always called her “Caroline” instead of “Coraline.” She told them to stop it many times but still kept on calling her that. So later that day Coraline goes to the well where she was strictly told not to go and finds a cat. However the coming of a rainy foggy day limits Coraline of exploring outside and leaves her to just exploring the flats which leads her into a room, where her grandmother’s old furniture and such is kept, in which she finds a small door different from the other doors in the house. Asking her mother what the door leads to her mother just tells her nothing and proves it to her by opening the door and there just being a brick wall on the other side of it. One night while Coraline is asleep she hears some noise outside her bedroom door. She follows the noise, which leads her back to the room with her grandmother’s stuff, and then it disappears into the small door. I started to get really scared when I got to this part. However the next day while Coraline is out exploring the crazy old man that lives upstairs tells her his mice have a message for her. He tells her the message is “Don’t go through the door.” and he asks Coraline if this means anything to her. She tells him it does not and they both seem to just carry on with what they are doing. Now usually a mentor would be with a younger person and an adult but however in the book I feel Coraline’s mentor would be the black cat she meets earlier in the book. The cat can only talk when he is on the other side/ the other world. Coraline finally gets more curious about
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