Blog for Week 10/26/15

Prompt: How Elements of a Story Interact with One Other

Focusing on how the Conflict Drives Characters Development
Coraline By: Neil Gaiman

In the book Coraline the conflict is between her and the Other Mother, the villain, is taken to a really deep. By that I mean this conflict emotionally hurts Coraline in the most evil way you can think of. Having no one other than the cat to help her face the other mother, this indeed made her change. I mean having a little face on an evil which like her basically alone has to be tough and change someone's life forever. 

The conflict changes her because she like anyone battling someone mentally or physically, in this case mentally, is because she is scared. Taking someone's parents away to me is cruel. She just has to mentally face her alone with no help at all. You never really saw any character in Coraline until now when she found out that her parents were taken away from her. Having to face the other mother drives her to being scared because she is just a kid. Taking on an adult technically by herself. If that were me that would drive me to being scared.

The conflict also changes her because Coraline is determined during the conflict between her and the Other Mother. When the author introduced this character to the reader, in this case me, I though " Oh, this character will probably have no meaning in this book and won't pertain to the story at all. " To me the first few pages I read Coraline was just this boring girl who lives in a pink palace. When you see her face the other mother, solve puzzle by puzzle she is very determined to free her parents from the other mother. Like I said in the first paragraph she is scared, but she doesn't care if she she's scared or is going to lose she just knows that her mom and dad are her only motive. Tis shows how determined she is to finding her parents beating the Other Mother.