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Uncanny: A Whimsical Element in Neil Gaiman's Coraline
All that is not conscious to the individual is considered to lie in the unconscious and may affect a person's thoughts and actions in day-to-day life without their knowledge. While the button eyes are the most obvious marker of her difference and monstrosity, there are other physical distortions that create uncanny and grotesque effect. When Coraline arrives in the other world, she instantly prepares her a \"huge, golden-brown roasted chicken, fried potatoes, tiny green peas\" that Coraline says \"was the best chicken that [she] had ever eaten\" (35). Like the witch in Hansel and Gretel, the Other Mother cleverly uses food (notably nutritious food, not candy) as a lure, and as a marker of maternal care and affection.
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The friendship war
When Grace takes boxes of old buttons from a building her grandfather bought, she starts a fad at school that draws her closer to one friend, but further from another.
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The button war : a tale of the Great War
Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to Poland, bringing one invading army after another to the village. Jurek devises an exciting dare among the seven boys in their pack: whoever steals the best military button will be Button King. The boys agree. The contest is on. The competition escalates from stealing uniform buttons on a wash line to looting the bodies of dead soldiers to setting up an ambush. Leading the charge is Jurek, who will do anything to be Button King. It's only Patryk who tries to stop Jurek's increasingly dangerous game before it leads to deadly consequences.
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A Vest Reinvested in The Gift
They held the universe to be a large suit of clothes, which invests everything: that the earth is invested by the air; the air is invested by the stars; and the stars are invested by the primum mobile. Look on this globe of earth, you will find it to be a very complete and fashionable dress. What is that which some call land, but a fine coat faced with green? or the sea, but a waistcoat of watertabby? Proceed to the particular works of the creation, you will find how curious Journeyman Nature hath been, to trim up the vegetable beaux; observe how sparkish a periwig adorns the head of a beech, and what a fine doublet of white satin is worn by the birch. To conclude from all, what is man himself but a microcoat, or rather a complete suit of clothes with all its trimmings?
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