| NOTE: This article is only for the book and graphic novel versions of Coraline as the film version was not voted Pure Good |
| “ | When I was a little girl, when we lived in our old house, a long, long time ago, my dad took me for a walk on the wasteland between our house and the shops. It wasnʼt the best place to go for a walk, really. There were all these things that people had thrown away back there --- old cookers and broken dishes and dolls with no arms and no legs and empty cans and broken bottles. Mum and Dad made me promise not to go exploring back there, because there were too many sharp things, and tetanus and such. But I kept telling them I wanted to explore it. So one day my dad put on his big brown boots and his gloves and put my boots on me and my jeans and sweater, and we went for a walk. We must have walked for about twenty minutes. We went down this hill, to the bottom of a gully where a stream was, when my dad suddenly said to me "Coraline --- run away. Up the hill. Now!" He said it in a tight sort of way, urgently, so I did. I ran away up the hill. Something hurt me on the back of my arm as I ran, but I kept running. As I got to he top of the hill I heard somebody thundering up the hill behind me. It was my dad, charging like a rhino. When he reached me he picked me up in his arms and swept me over the edge of the hill. And then we stopped and we puffed and we panted, and we looked back down the gully. The air was alive with yellow wasps. We must have stepped on a wasps' nest in a rotten branch as we walked. And while I was running up the hill, my dad stayed and got stung, to give me time to run away. His glasses had fallen off when he ran. I only had the one sting on the back of my arm. He had thirty-nine stings, all over him. We counted later in the bath. So, later that afternoon my dad went back again to the wasteland, to get his glasses back. He said if he left it another day he wouldn't be able to remember where they'd fallen. And soon he got home, wearing his glasses. He said that he wasn't scared when he was standing there and the wasps were stinging him and hurting him and he was watching me run away. Because he knew he had to give me enough time to run away, or the wasps would have come after both of us. And he said that wasn't brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung. It wasn't brave because he wasn't scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were there, when he was really scared. That was brave. | „ |
| ~ Coraline Jones revealing where she got her courage from to The Cat. |
Coraline Jones is the titular protagonist of Neil Gaiman's 2002 novella Coraline. As well as it's 2008 graphic novel adaptation by P. Craig Russell, which was colored by Lovern Kindzierski and lettered by Todd Klein.
What's Make Her Pure Good?[]
- After moving to her new house, she explores around a bit and finds a well that she's not supposed to approach. And meets a black cat. She meets Miss Forcible and Miss Spink, who give her an adder stone, as well as Mr. bobo.
- She soon gets bored and starts going into the doorway to the other flat. Upon arriving at the other size she meets the other mother and the other father. She has meals with them and enjoys herself. She goes to the other Miss Forcible and Miss Spink's stage where she enjoys the never ending show and gives a dog a chocolate. Coraline also enjoys Bobo's circus. Coraline also meets with the black cat again who tells her that it can traverse between the two worlds and can speak in the Other World. She enjoys it there and the Other Mother offers her a chance to stay as long as her eyes are sewn with buttons. Coraline goes home only to find her actual parents are missing. The cat shows her a mirror which shows Coraline that her parents are trapped somewhere.
- Coraline realizes that the Other Mother has taken them. She calls the police, who don't believe her. Coraline goes into the Other World with Forcible and Spink's adder stone. When meeting the Other Mother and being asked to stay once more, Coraline refuses and gets trapped behind her mirror within a cramped dim room.
- She meets three ghost kids who tell Coraline about how they let the Other Mother sew buttons in their eyes and how they died at her hands. They also tell Coraline how their souls are trapped forcing them to stay in the house. They've actually been there for centuries.
- When Coraline gets pulled from the room, Coraline challenges her to a game: if Coraline finds the souls of the ghost children and her parents, then Coraline goes free with them. If Coraline loses she stays with the Beldam.
- She finds the souls in numerous ways:
- The first soul in the her bedroom hidden with her toys,
- The second once with a horribly conjoined Other Forcible and Fink, she goes down a dark passage way to find the Other Father is horribly mistreated by the Other Mother to the point where he looks like a grub. Coraline expresses pity for him before he charges at her.
- She escapes the Other Father and finds the third soul with the Other Mr. Bobo's rats. The black cat obtains the rat with the third soul which allows Coraline to claim it. Coraline is warned by the ghosts that even if she wins, the Beldam wouldn't let her go.
- She outwits the Beldam by saying that her real parents are within the passage between both worlds. The Beldam opens the passageway to reveal that they aren't there, then, Coraline throws the cat at The Beldam. While The Beldam is scratched to death, Coraline takes the snow globe with her parents and escapes with the cat into the real world severing the Beldam's good hand with the help of the children and her parents.
- Upon returning to her house, her parents are left without any memory of the "Otherworldly experience". Coraline has a good time with the children dreaming of having a good picnic with them and watching them pass on having an extremally enjoyable time with them.
- Coraline finds the hand of The Beldam lurking around the house. She sets up a false picnic over the well, placing a picnic blanket over the well pinned there by her dolls and their cups. She places the key to the Other World over the blanket. When the Beldam's hand arrives to steal the key, it jumps onto the picnic blanket to obtain the key but falls into the well due to the dolls and cups barely holding the blanket and key's weight.
- Coraline lives happily ever after and goes to school the next day.
- The low admirable standard allows Coraline to qualify as Pure Good given her low resources yet still managing to save the three ghost children and her parents from the Beldam.
Trivia[]
- Only the original novel and graphic novel versions count as Pure Good while the film version is Near Pure Good due to being more rude, snarky, degrading and more of a jerk. Thus, even though her actions in the film are mostly the same as in the novel and graphic novel, her film version can't qualify.
- While only Coraline's book and graphic novel versions count as Pure Good, the Beldam counts as Pure Evil in all versions of Coraline.
External Links[]
- Coraline Jones on the Heroes Wiki
- Coraline Jones on the Coraline Wiki
- Her film version on the Near Pure Good Wiki