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Other Mother Essays

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 Coraline’s life through a doll grasping a better understanding of what Coraline wants. Still a children’s movie...

Your’e probably reading this thinking that this post is stupid and unrelated, and that I might have just wasted time explaining one of my favorite movie’s but I really feel that we are similar to Other Mother when writing our essays that aren’t in our voice. Just in a less extreme way.  Our essay is like the parallel universe, a place built on lies and fiction. And we are Other Mother, taking the admission's office through a journey in hopes to suck them into a reality that we are perfect. But, surprise! Nobody is perfect. I really hate to be cliche.

It sounds effortless and dumb to talk normally when trying to into your dream school but what one must realize is that its mature and professional. It's easy to be a stranger and hard to be yourself.

Other mother was never herself and had probably one of the greatest character downfalls for a children’s movie. 

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