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Coraline

2008-08-28T04:29:00.000-07:00

En liten reklamefilm for boka:

Litt om filmen:

Forfatteren av Coraline, Neil Gaiman, snakker litt om filmen og om Hollywood.

Sammendrag av hele boka

Coraline is the story of a young girl named Coraline. Having recently moved into a new apartment with her loving but terminally distracted and preoccupied parents, Coraline finds herself bored one rainy day and, upon her father's suggestion, decides to explore the flat. She finds a locked door in the drawing room, which her mother opens and explains once led to the flat next door and was bricked up when they separated the building (which was once a single house) into apartments. That night, Coraline hears a strange noise and sees a small black shadow slip down the hall outside her bedroom and into the drawing room; when Coraline turns on the light, it has vanished.

The next day she takes her mother's key and opens the door, to find that it suddenly opens not onto the brick wall, but onto a dark corridor, down which she finds another apartment, seemingly a twisted copy of her own. This alternate world is inhabited by her "Other Mother" and "Other Father", two duplicates of her parents except with buttons sewn over their eyes. Once there, her Other Mother traps Coraline in the other world by kidnapping her parents, wanting her to live there forever.

Coraline learns that her Other Mother captured three other children before her and turned them into ghosts, stealing their souls. Desperate to escape, Coraline makes a bet with her Other Mother: If she can find the three children's souls and her parents, then they can all go home. The Other Mother agrees, swearing to honor the agreement on her "good right hand". Coraline uses a stone with a hole in it (given to her previously by an eccentric neighbor) to find the children's souls, despite attempts by the Other Mother to trick her. The children warn Coraline that the Other Mother will break her word sooner than let Coraline leave. Coraline confronts her Other Mother and pretends to guess falsely that her real parents are trapped in the corridor between the two flats.

When the Other Mother opens the door to prove that she's wrong, Coraline escapes with the souls, the key to the door, and her parents (who were actually hidden as ornaments in a snow globe above the mantlepiece). The children are able to pass on to the afterlife, but Coraline's task is not yet done. After breaking her word, the Other Mother sends her good right hand to retrieve the black key. The hand enters Coraline's world and tries to steal the key to the door from her. Coraline manages to lure the hand to a well and tricks it into falling into the well, ridding the world of the danger of the Other Mother forever.

Personene i boka
* Coraline Jones: The titular young heroine and self proclaimed explorer, she is young, clever, and as curious as they come. She is often aggravated by rain, crazy grownups (as they all seem to be,) and not being taken seriously because of her young age and quiet demeanor. Perhaps her single biggest pet peeve is that everyone mistakes her name for Caroline (everyone in the real world at least, except the mice and her parents).

* Mummy and Daddy: Coraline's parents, loving but distracted computer workers, who do most of their work from home.

* The Cat: A black cat from Coraline's world (as opposed to that of the Other Mother). The cat acts as a mentor to Coraline and guides her through her journey. It claims to have no name, explaining that cats do not need names to tell each other apart. It can talk but only talks in the Other Mother's world.

* The Other Mother: The person (or thing) that created (or found) the 'Other' world. She is almost identical to Coraline's real mother but taller and thinner, with long black hair that seems to move by itself, black button eyes, paper-white skin, and too-long, twitchy fingers with long dark red nails. She cannot create, but only copy, twist and change things from the real world when constructing her version of it. She collects children, whom she quickly becomes bored or frustrated with, after which she imprisons them behind a magical mirror and slowly sucks the life from them; she intends to do the same with Coraline. She is referred to several times as 'the beldam.'

* The Other Father: A 'creation' of the Other Mother; he follows the Other Mother. He is punished by the Other Mother for talking to Coraline behind the Other Mother's back.

* Miss Forcible and Miss Spink: A pair of retired actresses who live in the flat next door to Coraline. They own several Scottie dogs, and talk in theater jargon, often referencing their time as actresses. They recognize the danger Coraline's in after reading her fortune through tea leaves and give her a stone with a hole in it to help protect her. In the other world they are young, pretty and perform unendingly in front of the Scottie dogs, who, in the other world, behave like humans.

* Mr. Bobo: A retired circus performer living in the flat above Coraline's; he is commonly referred to as the Crazy Man Upstairs. Over the course of the book he claims to be training mice to perform in a mouse circus, and often brings Coraline messages from the mice. His 'Other' world counterpart trains rats, and is in fact made of rats.

* The Three Children: Former 'children' of the Other Mother, lured from their ordinary lives in the same manner as Coraline and imprisoned behind a mirror. Coraline has to find their souls as part of a challenge she makes with the Other Mother in an attempt to win both her, the children, and her parents' freedom.

One of them is a boy and the other two are girls, one with strange characteristics of a butterfly, or fairy. Judging by their out-dated manner of speech, and references they make to their former lives, they have been imprisoned for a very long time.

Engelsk s. 130-131: West Side Story/America

2008-05-22T23:41:00.000-07:00

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..."

-Inskripsjon på Frihetsgudinnen

Musikalen West Side Story foregår på New Yorks Upper West Side. Den handler om to gjenger: Jets (Polsk-Amerikanere) og Sharks. I denne sangen møter vi to Jets som krangler om hvordan det var der de kom fra og hvordan det er her i USA. Dette er en ganske vanlig problemstilling for innvandrere til USA; noen ble skuffet og lengtet hjem, noen fant det de lette etter. Filmen West Side Story er basert på Romeo og Julie og er en av de mest populære musikalene noensinne.

2008-05-22T14:31:00.001-07:00

Her er lesesleksa, for sent igjen, for de med den letteste planen.

British timeline grønn

Lenker til videoene i tentamensheftet

2008-05-13T00:57:00.000-07:00

Slik at dere bare trenger å huske 1 adresse:) Lykke til i morgen.

Som vanlig litt forsinket: engelsk leselekse som lydbok

2008-04-08T10:15:00.000-07:00

Voices s.104-105 (the Death of a...)

Den teite videoen kommer vel til å distrahere dere, men...

Noen klassiske reklamefilmer (de var lettere å gjennomskue før,,,)

2008-01-24T23:57:00.000-08:00

Pantene Pro V

Coca Cola (1985)

Mentos (90-tallet)

McDonalds (ny)

Hvorfor kjører man ikke den siste noe særlig i Norge, tror dere?

Engelsk: Time Passes s. 70-71

2008-01-20T02:54:00.000-08:00

Dette er den norske oversettelsen av text 1 s. 70-71. Jeg leser de engelske mellomoverskriftene slik at det skal være greit å følge med. Jeg minner igjen om at disse oversettelsene er laget for å gi meningen i teksten, ikke for at hvert ord skal være helt riktig.

Samfunnskunnskap s.14-17

2008-01-20T02:40:00.000-08:00

Hitler og Sokrates

OM HITLER (s. 14-15)

OM SOKRATES (s.16-17)

Mer om Hitler

Mer om Sokrates

Oops,

2008-01-09T11:08:00.000-08:00

Skulle postet lydbokversjon av Appetizers denne uka, men det er allerede Onsdag kveld, så nå er det kanskje ikke noen vits?

Visste du forresten at appetizer betyr smaksprøve? Sidene som heter Appetizers inneholder jo smaksprøver på de ulike Tracks du kan velge som leselekser.

Husk gloseprøve i morgen! Fem gloser til din Track, og du må også skrive et sammendrag av den på norsk...

Geografi uke 50-51Platedrift (endelig!)

2007-12-16T12:26:00.000-08:00

Her er endelig geografileksa på arbeidsplanen, i hvert fall det viktigste av de den. Og mer enn dette blir det ikke før jul. Legg gjerne en kommentar i kommentarfeltet hvis du har brukt disse lydbøkene, siden jeg er interessert i hvor mange som bruker dem og hvordan. God Jul!

Oops!

2007-12-12T10:31:00.000-08:00

Youtube har blokkert lydbokversjonen av Geografileksa fordi den var for lang. Skal forsøke å få den opp i helga, men i mellomtiden må dere lese selv. Sorry.

Engelsk uke 48-49

2007-12-04T00:57:00.000-08:00

Litt seint kanskje, men her er lydbokversjonen av arket alle har som leselekse, med oversettelse:

Og her er Text 1-2 i boka, i de forenklede versjonene, med oversettelse:

Oversettelsene tar jeg på sparket, så de er ikke 100% nøyaktige. Men meningen skal være riktig.

Samfunnsfag uke 48-49

2007-11-26T12:54:00.000-08:00

Ok, her er den første lydbokposten, med mesteparten av leseleksa i geografi...

Jordskjelv

Vulkanutbrudd

Tsunamier

Velkommen...

2007-11-25T06:18:00.000-08:00

... til Vessia8. Her kommer jeg til å poste lydversjoner av leselekser, og andre ting du trenger til arbeidsplanen. Følg med!