Vivienne's Views

This week in class we took time to prioritize writing our college essays, mainly, to discover and accomplish our true voices. What’s so obvious is that we drift away from our authenticity to become the ideal representation of our audience’s definition of perfect.  A prime piece of evidence that proves the previous statement is the 2009 classic, “Coraline.”   For those of you who don’t know the plot of “Coraline,” a young girl named Coraline moves into a house with a trap door that leads to a parallel universe where a sorta spider woman eats children’s souls by sewing buttons into their eyes. Do keep in mind this is a children’s movie… Anyways, the spider woman replicates Coraline’s whole life but makes it everything Coraline has ever desired. I’m talking cool neighbors with dancing mice, breakfast for dinner, a chandelier that serves mango milkshakes, an amazing garden, and a dad that can play piano and sing. “Other Mother” aka spider woman knows this cause she watches Co...