Coraline

In the novel ‘Coraline’, originally written by Neil Gaiman, the two important themes that are shown throughout the book are family and identity.

In ‘Coraline’, identity is very important in the novel. The black cat said, “Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.” The fact that the black cat argued that names are just useless tags that nobody needs, really makes the reader think that we don’t know each other well enough, so we need names to call each other.

Coraline is a girl who likes to explore and is willing to take risks. In the novel, she explores in the backyard garden, and she also goes into the dark and scary corridor that leads to the other mother’s …show more content…
The other mother also eats weird food, like black beetles, which hints the reader that the other mother has a hint of evilness in her. When Coraline disrespects her, she throws Coraline into a magic prison that hides behind a mirror in the bathroom, which shows her evilness is starting to show up. Also, when the black cat scratched the other mother’s face, black substance poured out of her face, showing some signs of evilness in her.

In the story of ‘Coraline’, the theme of family was evident throughout the book. At the start of the book, Coraline has two different families: Her “real” parents, and her “other” parents. Her real parents don’t necessarily care about her as much as the other parents. For example, Coraline’s real father ignores her because he is too busy on his computer all day long, and her real mother is always fed up with her. Coraline’s other parents feed her better food than her real parents, and they also treat her with more respect.

Even though her Coraline’s real parents neglected her, they still love her. And even though her other parents appear to be nice, they are tricking her, they treat Coraline like a dragon loves his