The setting of coraline plays a huge roll in the way coraline lives and how see she does her adventures. See coralines flat in present day London isn't your normal house, it's full of wacky newborns and strange animals, but that's not all.
At the start of the book coraline is just moving in to her new home she meet her new neibors on the lower floor liver mrs spink and mrs forcible. They where two old actresses who lived together with a lot of old terriers,and on the upper floor lived mr bonobo? a crazy man who trypsin to teach ice circus tricks for a living. Then after being polite and introducing herself she got right to her favorite hobby of all exploring. Coraline explored the garden and the tennis court on the first day. Then the next day when it rained she had to explore inside,she counted the different things around her flat she found 153 things that where blue, her house had twenty one windows, and fourteen doors. But only thirteen opened.
Coralines new home is a extremely large home divided into three units. In this house coraline meets her down stairs neighbors mrs spink and mrs forcible ,two old actresses, for afternoon tea. Then meets her downstairs neighbor mr.bonobo? a crazy old man who try's to teach mice to preform music and do circus tricks. After coraline does some exploring of her new home she finds out that of the fourteen doors her flat has only thirteen open. But one time when she try's to open the door it opens. And on the other side is just a more perfect version of the world. Here in a house identical to hers the tennis court is perfect and new looking, the flower garden is perfect and the large black cat that in the real world just walkes around trying to catch mice, can talk.Even her parents are here. And here instead of working all the time they love her and make her fancy dinners. But then she notices that the other parents don't have normal eyes, there eyes look like black