the other mother kept coraline’s parents at mansion.
where does the other mother keep coraline’s parents?
mansion
after coraline returns to the copy of her flat, the other mother offers coraline the opportunity to stay in the other world forever, but in order to do so, coraline must allow buttons to be sewn into her eyes. coraline is horrified and returns through the door to her home. upon return to her apartment, coraline finds that her real parents are missing. they do not return the next day, and the black cat wakes her and takes her to a mirror in her hallway, through which she can see her trapped parents. they signal to her by writing "help us" on the glass, from which coraline deduces the other mother has kidnapped them. though frightened of returning, coraline goes back to the other world to confront the other mother and rescue her parents. in the garden, coraline is prompted by the cat to challenge the other mother, as "her kind of thing loves games and challenges." the other mother tries to convince coraline to stay, but coraline refuses, and is locked within a small space behind a mirror as punishment.
coraline
coraline searches through the other world and overcomes the other mother's obstacles by using her wits and miss spink's lucky stone to find the marble-like souls of the ghost children. she also deduces that her parents are imprisoned in a snow globe on the mantelpiece. the ghost children warn her that even if coraline wins, the other mother will not let them go, so coraline tricks the other mother by announcing that she knows where her parents are hidden: in the passageway between the worlds. the other mother cannot resist gloating by opening the door to show coraline that her parents are not there. when the other mother opens the door coraline throws the cat at the other mother, grabs the snow globe, and escapes to the real world with the key, and the cat quickly follows. while escaping, coraline forces the door shut on the other mother's hand. back in her home, coraline falls asleep on a chair. she is awoken by her parents who have no memory of the events.
coraline