Explore the role of the home/away/home pattern within Coraline, and come to a conclusion about the importance of this pattern within the novel.
Topic: Coraline by Neil Gaiman as a novel follows the home/away/home pattern. In The Pleasures of Children’s Literature, Perry Nodelman and Mavis Reimer describe the home/away/home pattern as a narrative structure in which a character becomes unhappy at home, journeys to another place, has both exciting and dangerous adventures that challenges them to grow, and […]