Coraline Lesson Plan

How does Coraline decide to challenge her other mother? What are the parameters of their deal? Why do you think Coraline is willing to take this gamble? Would you take the same risk? Why or why not?

Coraline challenges her other mother to a game, suggesting that her other mother would be happier if she won Coraline fair and square. She suggests a "finding-things" game, wherein she must discover where the souls of the three ghost children are hidden, along with her real parents. The stakes of the game are high. If Coraline loses, she will stay in the other world with the other mother, where she promises to be a dutiful daughter and sew buttons onto her eyes. If Coraline...