ENG 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nuclear Family, Neil Gaiman, Wish Fulfillment

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 222
• Professor: Sarah Henstra

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Gives her the name coraline to make her different: everyone tries to conform her by calling her carline, but she does let them (asserting her independence) Coraline if introduced as a disobedient young girl: testing the boundaries of being a woman (especially adolescent girls) She has to be disobedient for the story to start (she has to go off the path and enter the little door to find the other world) It is already pretty strange (miss forcible talks nonsense, mr. babinski trains performing mice: she experiences a nightmare: we are entered into her head (this story being an extension of her psychological state) Questioning whether this story is real or from her mind. What"s real and what"s not is not the point when you are reading to children: children already view the world (oppressive grown up world) is already monstrous and fairytale like (in a similar situation of powerless)