This is my essay surrounding the character the other mother from Coraline.
Describe at least one way that a character or individual changed in the text. Explain how this change was important to the text as a whole.
Coraline is a movie where a girl named Coraline moves to a house called the pink palace where she has new experiences to deal with.
The other mother is first introduced to us when Coraline first goes through a door to the other world. The other mother first seems warm, loving and very welcoming to Coraline. She seems amazing and has all the time in the world for Coraline. As we move through the movie the other mother seems mostly the same until 1 night when the other mother, other father, and Coraline are eating food. The other mother says that she has a surprise for Coraline. Because of the way the other mother has been acting it seems that it would be something cool and magical that Coraline will love however the other mother opens a box to show button eyes. Before the button eyes we get eye camera angles to show a balance in power.
This freaks Coraline out and she becomes angered and scared. She instantly runs away and tries whatever she can to escape. The next time we see the other mother she has become more scary and weird. She becomes taller, thinner, and a paler color. The other mother changing like this is what made the action of the movie take place. The other mother causes the final fight to happen and makes the movie require a resolution because the perfect other world isn’t perfect and is trying to consume her. The other mother is the antagonist of the movie and if she wasn’t there then the movie wouldn’t have the other world or a problem that requires a solution. We get a birds-eye view of the pink palace in the other world as it gets destroyed. This makes Coraline look really small and powerless.
The director did a very good job at blending the other mother’s plans with a seemingly friendly character. The other mother seemed calm when Coraline challenged her as to make the other mother seem more powerful than Coraline and to make Coraline seem vulnerable. The director did a very good job with creating a creepy, scary character while also making it so the atmosphere was also just as scary and wasn’t dulled by the other mother’s terrifying form. After the other mother reveals the button eyes the other world becomes more dull and weird. The other father's character starts to become sad and disfigured. They show that the other characters actually have a mind and that that part of the mind is a subconscious only revealed once the other mother becomes evil. The other world is shown to be controlled by the other mother and that the entire world is actually built on sadness that is hidden because of fear. We get shown multiple angles of looking up to the other mother. When her character becomes her scary form she grows taller which as we have to look up to her she seems to get more powerful and we feel weaker.
Overall Coraline is a pretty good movie. The way the director makes the other mother friendly then turns her evil and can make her seem totally different is incredible. The other mother is the antagonist to the movie and she is a really cool bad guy as she controls the world.
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