Coraline Fear Quotes Page 1
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| Quote #1 Coraline hesitated. She turned back. Her other mother and her other father were walking towards her, holding hands. They were looking at her with their black button eyes. (4.128) |
The short and choppy sentences here emphasize Coraline's growing fear about the other world. It's hard for her to process it all clearly.
| Quote #2 She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow. Her heart beat so hard and so loudly she was scared it would burst out of her chest. (4.130) |
Neil Gaiman is really great at describing emotions without naming them: here, he shows us how scared Coraline is by describing the thumping of her heart.
| Quote #3 All alone, in the middle of the night, Coraline began to cry. There was no other sound in the empty flat. (5.23) |
Coraline is alone throughout the story, and we kind of start to take it for granted. But a little kid all alone at night? That's scary stuff.
