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Quiz Four
You will
have
20
minutes to write a short essay response to this prompt. You may use your copy of
Coraline
and any notes that you took during the movie
. I would suggest that you draw up a quick outline first and then write your response.
Discuss the
primary differences between Neil
Gaiman’s
novel
Coraline
and Henry
Selick’s
film version in terms of characters and plot. Slide2
How comfortable would you be sharing
Coraline
with young readers?
What could go wrong?
What would be fun about it?Slide3
What was Neil Gaiman
thinking? What was his impetus for writing a book like
Coraline
?“More then ten years ago I started to write a children’s book. It was for my
daughter, Holly, who was five years old. I wanted it to have a girl as a heroine,
and I wanted it to be refreshingly creepy…. It was a story, I learned when people
began to read it, that children experienced as an adventure, but which gave adults nightmares. It's the strangest book I've written, it took the longest time to write, and it's the book I'm proudest of.”Slide4
The Gothic and
Coraline
Makin' up a song about
Coraline
She's a peach, she's a doll, she's a pal of
mine
She's as cute as a button
In the eyes of everyone who ever laid their eyes on
Coraline
When she comes around exploring
Mom and I will never, ever make it boring
Our eyes will be on
CoralineSlide5
Definition of The Gothic
The Gothic
novel’s ” principal
aim was to evoke chilling terror by exploiting mystery, cruelty, and a variety of horrors. The term ‘gothic’ has also been extended to denote a type of fiction which lacks the medieval setting but develops a brooding atmosphere of gloom or terror, represents events which are uncanny, or macabre, or melodramatically violent, and often deals with aberrant psychological
states” (Abrams,
A Glossary of Literary Terms
117-118).Slide6
Gothic Elements: Setting
Old houses with trap doors, secret passage ways, strange sounds, mysterious doors.
The macabre setting is meant to produce feelings of psychological dread.Slide7
Gothic Elements: Atmosphere
Everything in a gothic text is shrouded in mystery.
Authors create a sense of the uncanny (things being off a little; a bit askew), of suspense, of intrigue, of creepiness.Slide8
Gothic Elements: Female Characters in Distress
The tradition of “the damsel in distress” permeates Gothic fiction; yet,
Gaiman
plays with this idea: his heroine is in distress, but she rescues herself.Slide9
Gothic Elements: The Doppelgänger
German word meaning “double goer,” referring to the supernatural presence of oneself. Often,
the Doppelgänger
brings with it associations of evil.
Gothic literature will often dwell upon “a hidden
or double reality beneath the surface of what at first appears to be a single
narrative” (Sedgwick 12).Slide10
Gothic Elements: The Supernatural
Gothic literature focuses on the fact that as much as we may try to suppress the uncanny, the grotesque, or the strange, these things are truly a part of human existence, and we need to acknowledge this fact.Slide11
Famous Precursors
Horace Walpole's
The Castle of
Otranto: A Gothick
Story
(1764)
Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) Slide12
Gothic Children’s Literature
Scary, creepy, and
ubiquitiousSlide13
Gothic Elements
Not really the exception…more like the rule.Slide14
Model
Summary
The Romantic Child
The child “as superior to adults
in some ways and as aligned with nature, beauty or spirituality.”
The Sinful Child
The child as inherently
evil and in need of control and/or correction.
The Working Child
The child as competent and resilient.
The Sacred Child
The child as “precious
and fragile” and in need of protection
The Child as Radically Other
The idea that childhood is a distinctive
and separate time from childhood.
The Developing Child
The idea that childhood is on a continuum
with adulthood.
The Child as Miniature Adult
The child is just
an adult in miniature, capable of possessing an adult view of the world.
Looking for Clues in the Models of ChildhoodSlide15
The Different Ending
Wybie
LovatSlide16
Homework #1 Due on Wednesday!