Buttons
Perhaps the most iconic symbol from Neil Gaiman’s Coraline are the large, shiny black buttons which the other mother—and all the creatures she’s created to populate her parallel world—wear instead of eyes. This eerie…
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Food and Drink
Coraline Jones has a difficult relationship to food. Her father is an amateur chef who is always cooking fancy concoctions—which Coraline condescendingly refers to as “recipes”—and urging Coraline to try new dishes and new foods…
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