Week 8: Mythic Fiction and Contemporary Urban Fantasy

  For this week, I finished watching Caroline. Neil Gaiman integrates myth and fantasy into an urban/suburban setting in this story. Caroline moves into a new town and encounters elements beyond our usual reality. Very similar to the story of Alice in Wonderland, Caroline longs for a different life which leads to her to falling right into the other world. A world where her friends and family, who now have button eyes, are perfect, or so it seems. As Coraline further indulges in this new world, the more dangerous her adventure becomes. Towards the end, she brings upon doom, but like a majority of fantasy heroes, she's able to save her friends and family.