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Coraline’s Other Mother

Coraline’s other mother is described to look like an alien might look. She’s tall and slender with long fingers and hair that floats in the air like seaweed in water or wriggling snakes. She has eyes that look like huge black buttons. When Coraline first sees her other mother she believes she has some similarities to her real mother. Just before she takes the children’s souls, her parents and the cat back to the real world, Coraline realizes that she can’t believe she ever thought this creature looked anything like her real mother.

The Black Cat

The black cat is a significant character in the novel because it helps Coraline to understand what kind of place the other mother has created and helps her to rescue the final child’s soul. Even though the cat is very arrogant and pretends not to like Coraline, he shows by his actions that he is friendly. Notice that although the cat is refered in the novel only as “the cat” or “it,” the cat appears to be a male because Coraline indicates his voice sounds like the voice in the back of her mind when she thinks to herself. The cat’s voice, however, is a male voice.

Miss April Spink and Miss Miriam Forcible

Miss April Spink and Miss Miriam Forcible are a pair of old ladies that live in the flat underneath the one that belongs to Coraline’s family. Both of the ladies were theater actresses when they were younger. During one of her first visits to this pair of ladies, they read her future as determined by the tealeaves in the bottom of her cup. The ladies determine Coraline is in grave danger and give her a stone with a hole in it for protection. Coraline uses this stone to help her locate the souls of the children that the other mother has imprisoned. In another visit with the ladies after Coraline has rescued her parents and the children, the pair again reads her leaves. This time they tell her she’s no longer in danger but neither lady can determine the meaning of a clump of leaves that is in the shape of a hand. Coraline uses the ladies as a sounding board to let the other mother’s hand know her plans for a doll’s tea party so that the hand will follow her into the trap she has set for it.