How does the movie Coraline end?
Coraline refuses and demands to be allowed to go home. The Other Mother, becoming angry, grows grotesquely tall and elongated. (Eventually she is shown to be a spider.) She punishes Coraline by dragging her from the room by the nose and tossing her through a magic mirror, where she’s trapped. Behind the mirror, Coraline meets the ghosts of three children (voices: Aankha Neal, George Selick, and Hannah Kaiser) who the Other Mother lured into her world long ago. They can’t leave because the Other Mother has hidden their eyes (souls) — but if Coraline can find their eyes, the ghosts can be released. The ghost children call the Other Mother the beldam. (Beldam means ugly old woman, but it has connotations of witchcraft and recalls characters from literature and folklore: the title character of John Keats’s poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” (http://www.bartleby.com/106/193.html), in which a knight is enthralled by a fairy; a
