Eng102 supernatural
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Symbols, Motifs, and Themes.
After I finished the fiction call “ coraline” by British author Neil Gaiman, then the first thing that came to my mind is this book can reminds me the movie that we saw in class call “spirited away” by Haoyao Miyazaki. Both of these two stories are produced by cartoon movie now and became very popular. Also both authors are trying to tell people a lesson from the story that they mad. But the interesting thing is each of these two stories can speaking to one another. The reason why I say that because during the reading, as the time when I was reading “Coralline” and I find out that both of these stories have so many similarities and also some differences between them. Like in the book “Coraline” there are many symbols, Motifs, and Themes in the story and these items can helps the reader easy to understanding the story and also that is the way how we can find the similarities and differences from them.
First of all, there are two symbols that I found from both stories are the word “Cat” from “Coraline” and another one is the “ Dragon” from “ Spirited away”. The reason why I choose these two symbols to compare two stories because both of these two words are play a very important part in both stories and there are also can be the name of two main character’s in both stories. For example, the meaning of the word “cat” in “Coraline” it is not only to be animal because the “cat” can also be the key character in the story. When coraline came to another word the “cat” is her only friend who always talked to her and helped her. In the story “cat” moves freely from one world to the next, although he can talk in the other mother's world. So he has some abilities that can helps coraline. Like in the story as the other mother opens the door, coraline grabs the snow globe and throws the “cat” at the other mother’s head, and escapes to the real world with the key. That can shows how the “cat” helped coraline at the end and also the way that “cat” helped coraline is very similar like what the “dragon” did in “spirited away”. In the story, the word “dragon” is also a young boy who also played a very important character in the story which very similar to the book “coraline”. The reason why I say that because the “dragon” is also a young boy who is a dragon in the guise of a human in the film, which mean he has some supernatural power in the story and also who is the only person helps the main character chihiro after her parents have transformed into pigs. That was how these symbols works in these two stories, and they both though helpful towards two characters in the stories.
Second of all, the themes are very similar in both of the stories too. In both of the stories, they are all talking about how a little girl faced to their challenges when they moved to another world and how they saved their parents at the end. For example, in the book “Coraline” the main character coraline is the little girl who moved to an old big house with her parents. The house is big and old so they were sharing with some neighborhood like Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, two elderly women retired from the stage, and the Crazy Old Man Upstairs who is training a jumping mouse circus. Since when she find out there is another door can goes to other world everything became wired and she also had to faced all her challenged from inside that door such as, her other parents wants her stay with her and tired to let her forget about her real parents. if she don’t then her other mother will sew buttons into her eyes and push her into the darkroom forever. Like what she did to other kids. It is very similar like what chihiro’s problem in “spirited away” because after her parents transformed into pig the only way she can do to helped them back is to work hard in the other world. So, it is very clear to see that, the themes are very similar in both of the stories. They all shows how a little girl are facing to their problem.
Third of all, there are some differences between these two stories too. In both of the stories, there is one symbol that I can use to find the difference between the two stories is the word “door”. The reason why I say that because in “coraline” the “door” can be one of the key word in the whole story and it is also the main way how she goes into another world from her own family too. The “door” also appeared in the stories many times, even every chapter the author talked about the “door” because it is comes with the key or the word “ door” can be a bridge between the other world to the real world. It is very clear to see that it is plays an very important part in the whole story. But in “spirited away”, the author didn’t mentioned too much about the door and it is only appeared twice in the film , in the began and the end. So which meaning the “door” in “spirited away” didn’t play a very deep meaning in the whole story. That was one different thing that I found from these two stories.
In conclusion, in my own opinion both of the stories are shows amazing play about supernatural and there are so many similarities things are in the stories.After i rethink about these two stories, i though the two authors are trying use these two little girls to tells the readers a lesson. Both of them are trying to let us learn something from these two little girls and also think everyone can find their archetype or something that similar when we were young. For me,what I learned from these two stories is never give up about your life. No matter how hard it is, the only thing that we need to do is keep working on it.
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