I chose an hourglass to represent the book Coraline because initially in the book, Coraline wastes time. She wanders around the house and complains that she is bored. She doesn't view time as valuable. I think this is common for small kids because they have a lot of time ahead of them and don't realize how fast that time will go once they start to get older. Later in the book, once the evil "other mother" makes a deal with her that she must find the souls of the stolen children or be forced to stay with her forever, Coraline realizes that time speeds up quickly. She doesn't seem to have enough time to rescue the children and her parents. She worries that time will run out and she will have to stay in this weird new reality forever with her "other family" who are mean and spiteful. If there were a moral to this story, I would say it would be that people must be content with the time they have. Once Coraline returns to her home successful, she is far more content to stay with her parents in their slow, boring life.
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