Chapter 3

 Coraline and her mom go shopping for back-to-school clothes and supplies the next day
while her dad heads off to spend the day in London on business,
 Coraline really wants her mom to buy her some green gloves, but her mom ignores her and
only buys her school uniform clothes, which are all gray and navy. Lck.
 When they get home, coralline asks what’s in the empty apartment next door, but her mom
doesn’t know.
 Coraline’s mom goes to the grocery store to get some food, but Coraline stays behind.
Probably a bad call because, surprise, she gets pretty bored.
 Finally, Coraline manages to get her mom’s house keys and goes into the drawing room,
where her family keeps their fancy old furniture.
 Once shes’s there, she uses the big black key to unlock the door. You know the one.
 But this time, the bricks behind the door are gone. Instead, there’s dark hallway. Strange.
Actually, incredibly strange.
 We might have run away, but coraline goes down the hallway, curious as ever.
 When she gets out of the hallway on the other end, she realizes she’s still in her own hous.
The room is the same as the one she just left. How did that happen?
 But wait: there’s a picture on the wall that’s a little different.
 Coraline hears a familiar voice from the kitchen: it sounds like her mom.
 Wait, not so fast. In the kitchen, there’s a woman who look like her mom, but she’s taller
and tinner and definitely paler
 Oh, and she has big black buttons for eyes. So there’s that.
 Once again, instead of running in the other direction, coraline ask who she is. Her response?
She’s Coraline’s “Other mother” Hmmmm.
 Apparently Coraline is coolwith this, so she goes out to get her other father for lunch
 Her other mother tells her that they’ve been waiting for her: now they can be a family.
Sweet enough, we guess.
 She then serves Coraline a delicious lunch that’s practically a feast. Still not complaining
 After lunch, the other mother tells Coraline to go play in her room with the rats. Huh?
 She goes, and sees that her other room is painted pink and green and has all sorts of weird,
magical toys in it.
 There are also some rats under the bed Gross
 The rats put on a little show and sing a weird song like the one Coraline heard in her dream
the night befort,\. Ths getting spooky….
 Next up: the other version of the weird old man stops by to collect his rats. They all crawl
on him and he geos home to feed them their dinner.
 Thankfully, Coraline syas no when he invites her to come with him. First good decision’s
she’s made, we tnk
 Instead, Coraline goes outside to explore, and her other parents stand by the door and wave
her goodbye.
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 Coraline discovers that the other outside looks a lot like home, except there are some
blinking lights over the door to Miss forcible and Miss Spink’s place
 Coraline goes to investigate, of course.
 She hears something behind her. It seems to be the black cat from home, but now it can
talk. Or Coraline can hear it, at any rate.
 The cat talks and talks and keeps getting offended by Coraline. She also learns that it
doesn’t have a name (cats don’t have name duh ).
 Before it wanders away and disappears, the cat tells her it was smart tp bring “protection”.
This cat knows something we don’t, that’s for sure.
 Coraline finally goes into Miss Forcible and Miss Spink’s place, and inside she find a big
theater.
 An usher (who happens to be a dog) shows Coraline to her seat. Turns out the rest of the
audience members are all dogs , too.
 On stage, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible come out and perform a variety act. When it’s
over, they unzip their entire bodies and step out. Yep, that’s right. They step out of their
bodies.
 Now they are two young women with – wait for it – black button eyes.
 The younger versions of Miss Spink and Miss Forcible invite Coraline on Stage to help
with their act. They put a balloon on top it. Yikes!
 Luckily they don’t miss, and they actually give Coraline a small box of chocolate for
helping out.
 The dog next to her asks for her chocolates – that’s all dogs eat in the other world – and
she gives them to him. This is getting weirder by the minute.
 The show keeps going. But coraline decides to head back to her other home and see her
other parents again.
 When she arrives, they tell her they want her to stay with them forever.
 But first, Coraline has to have black button eyes put in. Um, no thanks!
 Coraline decised it’s time to hed back to her real home.
 Her other parents say that they’ll see her again soon when she comes back to stay. That’s
unsettling. For good reason, Coraline is scared as she heads back down the dark
passageway
 She finally gets home thought. Whew.
 And guess what? The bricks are back in place behind the door.
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 Coraline locks the door behind her. Smart move.
 Her parents aren’t home, so she just waits. And waits. And waits. Neither of her parents
come back.
 She doesn’t freak out quiet yet. Instead, she eats a frozen pizza for dinner and watches
some TV before going to bed.
 When she gets up the next morning, she discovers that her parents are stil gone.
 Coraline goes to have tea with Miss Forcible and Miss Spink and she tells them that her
parents are missing. Unfortunately, the two women think Coraline is just being silly. Just
like everyone else, they ignore her.
 She has to fend for herself, so she goes to the store and buys some more food and drinks.
 When she gets home, she writes a story about a girl who danced until her feet turned to
sausages.
 Sounds like Coraline saw the red shoes
 The she has a bubble bath. She’s keeping herself busy, that’s for sure.
 Coraline wakes up around three in the morning and her parents still aren’t there she starts
to cry – we would too! – and she goes to sleep in her parents’ bed
 Suddenly, the black cat wakes her up. Losing hope, Coraline asks if it knows where her
parents are. Instead of answering, it walks off, and Coraline Follows it to a hallway mirror.
 Turns out her parents are inside the mirror. Yep. Inside the mirror.
 Her father breathes on the glass and writes “help us”. Are you freaking out yet?” we are.
 Coraline goes to call the police, but the police officer thinks she’s just silly kid who had a
bad dream. He tells her to drink some hot chocolate and go back to bed.
 With no option left, Coraline decides to take matters into her own hands.
 She gathers up supplies (important stuff, like candles and apples), gets the black key, and
walks back toward the door.
 The black cat comes with her, and before she opens the door, she tells the cat a story.
 This is her story: one day, when she was younger, she and her dad were exploring (as usual)
and they disturbed a wasps’ nest.
 Coraline’s dad told her to run, and he stayed behind and got stung in order to give her a
chance to get away.
 Later that day, Coraline’s dad went back to wasps’ nest to get his glasses, which had fallen
off.
 He told coraline that he wasn’t scared when she was running away, because he knew he
was helping her, that wasn’t bravery. But when he went back for this glasses, he was scared
because he knew the wasps were there waiting. That was brave.
 Having finished her story, Coraline unlocks the door and steps through.
 Just then, the cat starts to talk and it wonders aloud why coraline is going back to the other
world.
 She says she has to save her parents. Of course! She’s definitely scared but she’s doing it
anyway. She’s being brave, just like her dad was.
 Coraline gets to the other world and her other parents welcome her back “home”.
 This time, she refuses their food and tells them that she wants her real parents back.
 Her other mother says her parents probably get tired of her and left. Now that’s just mean.
 Coraline doesn’t buy it: she calls the other mother a liar.
 The other mother decides to prove herself. She shows Coraline a scene in the mirror: her
parents are returning from vacation and are talking about how great it is no to have coraline
around anymore.
 Coraline isn’t that gullible: she knows it’s all fake.
 Her other mother starts to get angry and sends a rat to get the black key to the door. She
locks it and tells Coraline to get bed.
 The black cat comes up to Coraline in the hallway and tells her challenge the other mother.
He thinks she should play some sort of game to get her parents back.
 Coraline goes to her other room, which is now creepier than ever, and goes to bed things
aren’t looking good.