“The other mother has encased in glass marbles” the souls of the ghost children and are hidden throughout her world (Parsons, Sewers, and McInally 379). Coraline’s exploring game of hide-and-go-seek has some frightening encounters, especially one she has with her other father. According to Parsons, Sewers, and McInally, for Coraline “to complete her journey” she must face her other father (381). “The other mother knowingly gives Coraline the key [from her mouth] needed to open the flat in which her other father has been imprisoned in the basement” (Parsons, Sewers, and McInally 381). When Coraline encounters her other father in the basement he is unrecognizable. Coraline’s other father is just mere creation by the other mother and she makes him try and hurt Coraline “so that [Coraline] can never finish the game and [the other mother] will win” (Gaiman 110). She is able to escape this encounter and finds all of the marbles that the ghost children are encased in. Now all Coraline has to find are her real parents.
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...e on her part. Throughout the story, the Mother is portrayed as the dominant figure, which resembled the amount of say that the father and children had on matters. Together, the Father, James, and David strived to maintain equality by helping with the chickens and taking care of Scott; however, despite the effort that they had put in, the Mother refused to be persuaded that Scott was of any value and therefore she felt that selling him would be most beneficial. The Mother’s persona is unsympathetic as she lacks respect and a heart towards her family members. Since the Mother never showed equality, her character had unraveled into the creation of a negative atmosphere in which her family is now cemented in. For the Father, David and James, it is only now the memories of Scott that will hold their bond together.
Although this story is told in the third person, the reader’s eyes are strictly controlled by the meddling, ever-involved grandmother. She is never given a name; she is just a generic grandmother; she could belong to anyone. O’Connor portrays her as simply annoying, a thorn in her son’s side. As the little girl June Star rudely puts it, “She has to go everywhere we go. She wouldn’t stay at home to be queen for a day” (117-118). As June Star demonstrates, the family treats the grandmother with great reproach. Even as she is driving them all crazy with her constant comments and old-fashioned attitude, the reader is made to feel sorry for her. It is this constant stream of confliction that keeps the story boiling, and eventually overflows into the shocking conclusion. Of course the grandmother meant no harm, but who can help but to blame her? O’Connor puts her readers into a fit of rage as “the horrible thought” comes to the grandmother, “that the house she had remembered so vividly was not in Georgia but in Tennessee” (125).
The story, “When Morpheus Held Him,” was about a girl who had a drunk for a father. When the girl was three her parents separated, she did not see her father again until her parents reunited when she was seven. When her father came back into her life, she said that she could not stand her father. Her father ended up teaching younger students around an age where he thought was most influential. When the girl’s mother went away for a couple of weeks, the daughter wanted to stay with her aunt pearl so she would not have to stay with her father. The father said no unless aunt pearl asked her if she wanted to stay with her. Of course aunt pearl did not ask her but she went anyway. When her father found out what happened, he beat her bad enough to leave welts and bruises for months. The only time that the daughter and the father bonded was when the father would play some music on his old piano and she would come and sing for him. When the mother came back the fights continued. After the fights were over, the father would fall asleep due to his drunken rage. The only time the daughter felt safe around her father was when he was asleep.
... The mother's approach is a source of terror for the child, written as if it is a horror movie, suspense created with the footsteps, the physical embodiment of fear, the doorknob turns. His terror as he tries to run, but her large hands hold him fast, is indicative of his powerless plight. The phrase, 'She loves him.' reiterates that this act signifies entrapment as there is no reciprocation of the ‘love’.
Nothing hurts more than being betrayed by a loved one, Christopher’s father has no trust in Christopher and tells him that his “Mother died 2 years ago”(22) and Christopher thinks his mother died of a heart attack. When Christopher finds out his father lied, he runs away to live with his mother and his father despritally looks for him and while looking for him realizes the importance of telling the truth. When someone betrays one’s trust, they can feel morally violated. Once Christopher finds his mother, she begins to realize how unfit her living conditions are for Christopher and brings him back to his father, bring him “[..] home in Swindon”(207) Christopher feels incredibly hurt and distressed he does not want to see his father. Whether a relationship can be repaired depends entirely on whether trust can or cannot be restored. Christopher’s father works very hard to regain his trust, he tells his son “[..] I don’t know about you, but this...this just hurts too much”, Christopher’s father is dealing with the result of being dishonest with his son and himself.
It was a story that showed Coraline as an explorer, who went on an adventure and discovered the other side of her house. She felt so brave to rescue her parents on the second time that she went into the dark corridor that unveiled through a door that led to a brick room. “Because when you are scared and still do it, that’s brave.” This quote taken away from a brief story shows the goal of Coraline as she communicated with the cat at the entrance of the drawing room. In the actual story, Coraline informs the audience about her dad’s braveness to his fear of wasps. She implied that type of braveness toward her journey to the other side. On her second journey, it seemed like the kidnapping of her parents by her other mother made Coraline go back to her other mother. Therefore, her analogy was right. Since her father saved her from wasps, she wanted to save her real parents from her other parents (the characters with black buttons). She explored the other side and figured out that it led to an alternate version of her reality where her parents are fun and attentive and where everything is magical and wonderful. In this sense, the story of Coraline is like stories such as The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Labyrinth. These movies, including Coraline, take after the same fundamental blueprint: the young hero will be an
This story mainly takes place in another world that looks exactly the same as Coraline’s home. Although it looks the same, to Coraline it feels much different. The love and happiness from her real home is missing. This other world is not a bright and happy place like Coraline expected. It is gray and boring. In fact, not only is this unknown world dull and unhappy, it is also full of scary creatures. Coraline is very sad in this strange, horrible world.
The Narrator’s family treats her like a monster by resenting and neglecting her, faking her death, and locking her in her room all day. The Narrator’s family resents her, proof of this is found when the Narrator states “[My mother] came and went as quickly as she could.
Early in the film , a psychologist is called in to treat the troubled child :and she calmed the mother with a statement to the effect that, “ These things come and go but they are unexplainable”. This juncture of the film is a starting point for one of the central themes of the film which is : how a fragile family unit is besieged by unusual forces both natural and supernatural which breaks and possesses and unites with the morally challenged father while the mother and the child through their innocence, love, and honesty triumph over these forces.
At the begging of every year, the President of the United States addresses the nation and outlines the direction the Senate will take under his term. This tradition is called, the State of Union and it is a televised event that is given to a joint session of congress as well as the entire nation. The president presented issues within his speech, while also providing possible solutions and answers to common questions the American people may have. The President spoke clearly and with confidence throughout the speech. Also, the speech motivated millions and provided hope for the future in such a short amount of time. Obama truly appealed to congress and managed to also address the nation by relating common issues to situations anyone could relate to. I believe Obama’s State of Union address was flawless in the terms of his vocal variety, his content strength and the way he presented possible solutions to his audience.
Relationships are often difficult and messy, especially in the world Tayari Jones presents in her 2011 novel Silver Sparrow, chronicling the lives of the two daughters of bigamist father James Witherspoon. Jones depicts the complicated the world of Dana Yarboro the secret daughter, her father’s attempts to hide her from the prying view of the world and her refusal to stay hidden. While Chaurisse Witherspoon the public daughter James proudly presents to the world for all to see, enjoys the luxury of suburban life. Throughout the novel Jones’ character, Dana tries to reconcile how she can be part of her father’s family, but not truly a part of his life. While Chaurisse moves through the world with blissful ignorance of the secret life that lay
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