We were assigned to read Coraline, both the original text and the graphic novel. When I saw this on the syllabus, I was pretty excited. I know there was a movie about it and it is a very popular book.
When reading the book, it was better than I expected. My sister always goes on and on about many books, but I didn't believe her when she spoke about this book, because she loves so many.
I found that I slightly related and loved her character. I get bored A LOT, and throughout the reading, she was always bored and wanted to explore. I love her character because whenever her parents, or some other adult warned her not to do something or go somewhere, she willingly would do the opposite of what everyone warns her to do. This is great because I'm just as curious as she is.
I felt bad about her character though. Her parents always seem to be busy with work, and she wants to spend some time with them. She doesn't seem to like the food they are feeding her as well. It's fascinating to see an alternate reality though, where everything is perfect, yet ... it's not. I think we all want to escape our boring daily lives sometimes, but we need to remember to appreciate the life we have as well, and I think that's what this book is trying to say.
I enjoyed reading the graphic novel,as well as the original text, but I liked the original text more because the way I imagined the book was different from the graphic novels images. I like picturing every word the author says in my own mind, and remembering chapters that way. Even though it was simply written and there wasn't much description used in the text, I could easily picture what the author was trying to say. It's a children's book, but very creepy. I really enjoyed reading these couple of pages from the book, I will be finding it in the library and reading the rest.
I can't wait to read American Born Chinese, a graphic novel I've already read. My next blog post will be about that.
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