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| “ | The Other Mother. She's got this whole world where everything's better. The food, the garden, the neighbors. But it's all a trap. | „ |
| ~ Coraline explaining the beldam to Wybie. |
| “ | You're NOT my mother! | „ |
| ~ Coraline to the Other Mother, aka the Beldam. |
Coraline Jones is a fictional character and the titular main protagonist of Neil Gaiman's 2002 dark fantasy novel Coraline, which was adapted into the 2009 film of the same name. As well as it's 2008 graphic novel adaptation by P. Craig Russell, which was colored by Lovern Kindzierski and lettered by Todd Klein.
She is an little 11-year-old human girl who moved with her parents to a new town in Ashland, Oregon at the beginning of the film. She at first does not like her new home but soon learns to be content with it after her time in the Other World dimension.
In the film, she was voiced by Dakota Fanning who also played Sally Walden from The Cat in the Hat live-action film, Lilo Pelekai in Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, and Rachel Ferrier in War of the Worlds, and Spanish Latin-voiced for Ximena Sariñada Jenny Bennett in Monster House.
Powers and Abilities[]
Mental abilities[]
- Resourcefulness: she came self-prepared, even taking her clippers and using anything she had as a weapon.
- Intelligence: Coraline is a fast learner: first, she knew she could rile up the dog-bats with her flashlight, and figured out how to fool the Beldam into unlocking the door for her.
- Cunning: she easily tricked the Beldam to coming to the door and unlocking it while she found the snow globe with her parents inside.
- Argumentation: she often had arguments with her real mother and even made a valid point about her hating dirt.
Physical abilities[]
- Physical strength: she broke a mirror out of rage and despite the Beldam overpowering her, she had some strength to slow her down.
- Speed: she was agile enough to avoid the grasshopper tractor attacking her and was able to quickly lock the door before the Beldam could bust the other one open.
Physical Appearance[]
Coraline Jones has short straight chin-length dark blue hair which is parted to the side, with more hair covering the right. However, due to her brown eyebrows, it's revealed that she's dyed her hair that color possibly some time before moving. To complement her dark blue strands, she wears a cerulean blue dragonfly hair clip with light pink wings. She has oval-shaped brown eyes and thin lips that are the color of coral pink. Her nails are polished with turquoise blue nail polish. She is shown to wear a yellow raincoat paired with yellow shin-high rain boots over a vermillion skirt and red and black tights. This outfit is usually worn when she is outside exploring the garden. When Coraline is inside her house while counting the windows and doors, she is clad in a full-sleeved striped red shirt, loose denim jeans, and orange socks.
The next day, she was seen in her yellow raincoat again, but this time with an additional black newsboy cap with gold accents.
When she was out with her parents, Coraline had on the same cap, shirt, and skirt, along with light green tights, a blue-grey cardigan over the shirt and orange sneakers.
The third time she went into Other Mother's world, she had on a dark teal, yellow-star imprinted, long-sleeved turtleneck, dark blue pants, and light cerulean ankle-length heeled boots.
While prepping up for the rescue of her parents, Coraline is dressed in makeshift combat gear that consisted her pajamas, her newsboy cap, along with a dark grey vest, and her dark pink knit purse to hold her garden shears and the seeing stone.
Lastly, for the garden party, she wears denim overalls over a light green t-shirt with deep pink brims and frog, bright pink tights and blue sneakers.
Personality[]
Coraline is an eleven-year-old girl with a large personality. She is seen as a snarky, rebellious, adventurous, curious, and creative girl for her age. She is also a quick thinker and witty. Coraline can get aggravated by adults, and people not taking her seriously because of her young age and outgoing demeanor. But her biggest issue is people pronouncing her name wrong, when they confuse it with Caroline. Coraline is also very skeptical of what adults tell her, especially her parents since it is implied that they, mostly her mother, would always break their promises to her and would not listen to her.
Biography[]
Book and Graphic Novel[]
After moving to her new house, she explores around a bit and finds a well that she's not supposed to approach. And meets a black cat. She meets Miss Forcible and Miss Spink, who give her an adder stone, as well as Mr. bobo. She soon gets bored and starts going into the doorway to the other flat. Upon arriving at the other size she meets the other mother and the other father. She has meals with them and enjoys herself. She goes to the other Miss Forcible and Miss Spink's stage where she enjoys the never ending show and gives a dog a chocolate. Coraline also enjoys Bobo's circus. Coraline also meets with the black cat again who tells her that it can traverse between the two worlds and can speak in the Other World.
She enjoys it there and the Other Mother offers her a chance to stay as long as her eyes are sewn with buttons. Coraline goes home only to find her actual parents are missing. The cat shows her a mirror which shows Coraline that her parents are trapped somewhere. Coraline realizes that the Other Mother has taken them. She calls the police, who don't believe her. Coraline goes into the Other World with Forcible and Spink's adder stone. When meeting the Other Mother and being asked to stay once more, Coraline refuses and gets trapped behind her mirror within a cramped dim room. She meets three ghost kids who tell Coraline about how they let the Other Mother sew buttons in their eyes and how they died at her hands. They also tell Coraline how their souls are trapped their forcing them to stay in the house (they've actually been there for centuries).
Coraline gets pulled from the room and has breakfast the Other Mother, also known as the Beldam, makes. Coraline challenges her to a game: if Coraline finds the souls of the ghost children and her parents, then Coraline goes free with them. If Coraline loses she stays with the Beldam. She finds the first soul in the her bedroom hidden with her toys, she finds the second once with a horribly conjoined Other Forcible and Fink, she goes down a dark passage way to find the Other Father is horribly mistreated by the Other Mother to the point where he looks like a grub. Coraline expresses pity for him before he charges at her. She escapes and finds the third soul with the Other Mr. Bobo's rats. The black cat obtains the rat with the third soul which allows Coraline to claim it. Coraline is warned by the ghosts that even if she wins, the Beldam wouldn't let her go. She outwits the Beldam by saying that her real parents are within the passage between both worlds. The Beldam opens the passageway to reveal that they aren't there, then, Coraline throws the cat at The Beldam. While The Beldam is scratched to death, Coraline takes the snow globe with her parents and escapes with the cat into the real world severing the Beldam's good hand with the help of the children and her parents.
While she's in the passage, she was extremally scared and the passage seemed longer than normal. Upon returning to her house, her parents are left without any memory of the "Otherworldly experience". Coraline has a good time with the children dreaming of having a good picnic with them and watching them pass on having an extremally enjoyable time with them. Spink and Forcible reveal that something was coming for Coraline. Coraline finds the hand of The Beldam lurking around the house. She sets up a false picnic over the well, placing a picnic blanket over the well pinned there by her dolls and their cups. She places the key to the Other World over the blanket. When the Beldam's hand arrives to steal the key, it jumps onto the picnic blanket to obtain the key but falls into the well due to the dolls and cups barely holding the blanket and key's weight. Coraline lives happily ever after and goes to school the next day.
Film[]
She is an little 11-year-old human girl who comes with her parents into a new town (somewhere in Oregon in the movie), but she has only complaints to make about this change of home. The house needs to be renovated, the sky is always cloudy, the neighbors are old and eccentric (the only kid around is Wybie Lovat, who annoys her) and her parents are so busy with the moving and their jobs that Coraline is feeling alone, bored, and unhappy.
One night, she discovers a secret door in the house, which leads to another world. This place looks exactly like her own, with two differences: everybody has buttons instead of eyes, and overall the apartment is a much better place to live in.
Coraline has lots of fun in the other world, despite the warnings of a mysterious cat (who can talk in the magical world) among other characters.
However, she soon discovers that the Other Mother does not actually love her and wishes to devour her life and trap her soul like she had already done to three other children, the Other Father and the other residents of the Other World are in fact her slave creations, and all these amazing things the other world has are just a trick to lure her.
Eventually, Coraline manages to escape with Other Wybie's assistance (at the cost of his life). However, she discovers the Other Mother has kidnapped her parents. So, Coraline asks her if she could participate in a scavenger hunt of the Ghost Children as per the black cat's suggestion to win the deal.
After realizing that the Other Mother doesn't honor the bargain regardless of whether she wins the game or not, she has the Black Cat help her escape. Once the Beldam is trapped in the other world, Coraline tosses the key down the well, but not without a fight with the Beldam's severed hand.
Quotes[]
| “ | When I was a little girl, when we lived in our old house, a long, long time ago, my dad took me for a walk on the wasteland between our house and the shops. It wasnʼt the best place to go for a walk, really. There were all these things that people had thrown away back there --- old cookers and broken dishes and dolls with no arms and no legs and empty cans and broken bottles. Mum and Dad made me promise not to go exploring back there, because there were too many sharp things, and tetanus and such. But I kept telling them I wanted to explore it. So one day my dad put on his big brown boots and his gloves and put my boots on me and my jeans and sweater, and we went for a walk. We must have walked for about twenty minutes. We went down this hill, to the bottom of a gully where a stream was, when my dad suddenly said to me "Coraline --- run away. Up the hill. Now!" He said it in a tight sort of way, urgently, so I did. I ran away up the hill. Something hurt me on the back of my arm as I ran, but I kept running. As I got to he top of the hill I heard somebody thundering up the hill behind me. It was my dad, charging like a rhino. When he reached me he picked me up in his arms and swept me over the edge of the hill. And then we stopped and we puffed and we panted, and we looked back down the gully. The air was alive with yellow wasps. We must have stepped on a wasps' nest in a rotten branch as we walked. And while I was running up the hill, my dad stayed and got stung, to give me time to run away. His glasses had fallen off when he ran. I only had the one sting on the back of my arm. He had thirty-nine stings, all over him. We counted later in the bath. So, later that afternoon my dad went back again to the wasteland, to get his glasses back. He said if he left it another day he wouldn't be able to remember where they'd fallen. And soon he got home, wearing his glasses. He said that he wasn't scared when he was standing there and the wasps were stinging him and hurting him and he was watching me run away. Because he knew he had to give me enough time to run away, or the wasps would have come after both of us. And he said that wasn't brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung. It wasn't brave because he wasn't scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were there, when he was really scared. That was brave. | „ |
| ~ Coraline Jones revealing where she got her courage from to The Cat in the book and graphic novel. |
Trivia[]
- Coraline is currently the only female protagonist in a Laika production to be female; all other female characters in Laika productions are deuteragonists, tritagonists, or antagonists.
- Coraline is left-handed, as shown when she's exploring the house and when at the dinner table.
- In the book, Coraline had dark brown hair while in the movie, her hair is dark blue.
- Taylor Momsen, AnnaSophia Robb, Emily Osment, Abigail Breslin, Miranda Crosgrove, Spencer Locke, Maia Mitchell and Emma Watson were all considered to voice Coraline Jones before Dakota Fanning was cast.
External Links[]
- Her book and graphic novel versions on the Pure Good Wiki
- Her film version on the Near Pure Good Wiki
- Coraline Jones on the Coraline Wiki
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