Saturday, June 5, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
Contemporary Relevance
Battle for the Crown: Mythical VS Real
On June 5 2010, precisely 5:49 pm, a big event started in the middle of the Looking glass land. It was Mr. Lion vs Mr. Unicorn, why you ask? They are battling for the crown of the White King, it obvious that this wasn’t endorsed by the King himself but what can he do? They fight began with some trash talking in which Mr. Lion bragged that he was the King of the Jungle and therefore be the King. Mr. Unicorn obviously replied by saying “Lions obviously don’t live in the jungle.” The Lion yelled back “Well at least I’m real!” As I recall the crowd behind them said “OH BURN!” but the Unicorn in all of his cunning and wit replied back “I am real, I’m standing before you.” The Lion became furious and lunged at the Unicorn but the Unicorn managed to avoid by sidestepping very quickly. Unicorn said "So that's how you wanna play!" The Unicorn lowered it's head and lunged its horn and scratched the Lion's face and knocking off his monocle. Things start to get fiesty after took swings at each other. At one point the Lion has the Unicorn on the ground but the Unicorn managed to get the Lion off him. It was a epic struggle indeed. The King didn't want others to get hurt so he asked his subjects to come up with some sort of compromise to end this uneeded power struggle. The King then told one of hi subjects to go fetch a cake of anykind. After about 15 minutes he returned and gave the cake to the king. the King then shouted: Stop this meaningless bloodshed and lets sit down and have a compromise. Lion and Unicorn stopped for a while and then said fine. They later discussed more important matters. Then the Unicorn said " Well White King who do you think is the better creature?" The King was scared to answer. What will he say? What will he do?
On June 5 2010, precisely 5:49 pm, a big event started in the middle of the Looking glass land. It was Mr. Lion vs Mr. Unicorn, why you ask? They are battling for the crown of the White King, it obvious that this wasn’t endorsed by the King himself but what can he do? They fight began with some trash talking in which Mr. Lion bragged that he was the King of the Jungle and therefore be the King. Mr. Unicorn obviously replied by saying “Lions obviously don’t live in the jungle.” The Lion yelled back “Well at least I’m real!” As I recall the crowd behind them said “OH BURN!” but the Unicorn in all of his cunning and wit replied back “I am real, I’m standing before you.” The Lion became furious and lunged at the Unicorn but the Unicorn managed to avoid by sidestepping very quickly. Unicorn said "So that's how you wanna play!" The Unicorn lowered it's head and lunged its horn and scratched the Lion's face and knocking off his monocle. Things start to get fiesty after took swings at each other. At one point the Lion has the Unicorn on the ground but the Unicorn managed to get the Lion off him. It was a epic struggle indeed. The King didn't want others to get hurt so he asked his subjects to come up with some sort of compromise to end this uneeded power struggle. The King then told one of hi subjects to go fetch a cake of anykind. After about 15 minutes he returned and gave the cake to the king. the King then shouted: Stop this meaningless bloodshed and lets sit down and have a compromise. Lion and Unicorn stopped for a while and then said fine. They later discussed more important matters. Then the Unicorn said " Well White King who do you think is the better creature?" The King was scared to answer. What will he say? What will he do?
Contemporary relevance
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Two civilians have recently reported that they have spotted the young missing girl from 133 Wither dr. There names are Tweedledum and Tweedledee. They said that they were just hanging out beside this tree when they noticed some little girl run up from behind them panting and gasping for air. She said to them that she was lost and needed to find the red king so they sent her off in the correct direction. Later on they realized that the girl they had just spoken to was the missing girl! So now we have all of our forces out searching for her in the direction Tweedledum and Tweedledee sent her. We also ran into a magical cat who refused to share his name and he clamed to have seen the girl but he would not tell anyone where he saw her. He said he saw her in his head, so police got suspicious and checked up on this cat. Later that day the cat was arrested for several hundred pounds of cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy.
Any news on her where abouts please call 1 800 mystical finders. The reward is 1000 free roses!! So get searching!!
Reported by: johnny thejewburger –AIW news
Two civilians have recently reported that they have spotted the young missing girl from 133 Wither dr. There names are Tweedledum and Tweedledee. They said that they were just hanging out beside this tree when they noticed some little girl run up from behind them panting and gasping for air. She said to them that she was lost and needed to find the red king so they sent her off in the correct direction. Later on they realized that the girl they had just spoken to was the missing girl! So now we have all of our forces out searching for her in the direction Tweedledum and Tweedledee sent her. We also ran into a magical cat who refused to share his name and he clamed to have seen the girl but he would not tell anyone where he saw her. He said he saw her in his head, so police got suspicious and checked up on this cat. Later that day the cat was arrested for several hundred pounds of cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy.
Any news on her where abouts please call 1 800 mystical finders. The reward is 1000 free roses!! So get searching!!
Reported by: johnny thejewburger –AIW news
Analysis of style and srtructure
Lewis Carroll is truly an amazing writer for all ages. She uses techniques that will keep young children interested and also will keep adults asking for more. She uses a series of symbols, pictures, words, phrases, and interesting writing skills. She uses one theme for her books and for Alice in wonderland I believe that it is magical because, well, the whole book has to do with magic, besides I don’t think anyone would be able to fit through a key whole without a little magic or I don’t think its possible for cats and a deck of cards to walk and talk.
If that was not enough proof here is a quote from the book “iv never seen any animal speak or talk to me, I must be dreaming, or perhaps in a comma”. This quote was Alice speaking to herself when she first meets the white rabbit. Another quote was “I’ve never seen a card alive, iv only played with them on my spare time”. This was Alice speaking to herself when she meets the queen of hearts.
Lewis like to use techniques that will keep you guessing and techniques that will always keep you puzzled, in a way that will make you keep reading to try and figure out what the solution will be.
Many people would give up on her books because they are to confusing but for people like me, who enjoy mystery, her writing is perfect.
If that was not enough proof here is a quote from the book “iv never seen any animal speak or talk to me, I must be dreaming, or perhaps in a comma”. This quote was Alice speaking to herself when she first meets the white rabbit. Another quote was “I’ve never seen a card alive, iv only played with them on my spare time”. This was Alice speaking to herself when she meets the queen of hearts.
Lewis like to use techniques that will keep you guessing and techniques that will always keep you puzzled, in a way that will make you keep reading to try and figure out what the solution will be.
Many people would give up on her books because they are to confusing but for people like me, who enjoy mystery, her writing is perfect.
Analysis of setting
The setting of the section that I was assigned seemed to be similar to the setting of the rest of the book.(Ancient times) It seemed to be a magical place in which imagination was the influence or theme of design. Alice, just as before, keeps discovering new creatures and new places that she has never seen or been in before. The interesting thing about it is that as she gets older, or as she stays longer in wonderland , the setting seems to modernize in a way. It almost seems to be developing into a newer age, but as wonderland may develop the magical creatures never seems to leave or become less magical.
In the beginning of my section alice finds herself in a new area and finds herself at the feet of two new “funky” characters named Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Then after conversing with them for a while she finds herself with the red king.(The red king is the king of the new land she has entered) Throughout my designated section the scenery always seems to be between two major themes which are a forest and a beach.
The setting in this book is truly what kept me interested because the author made so much attention to detail that you can almost picture it in your head as your reading. Now that to me is awesome.
In the beginning of my section alice finds herself in a new area and finds herself at the feet of two new “funky” characters named Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Then after conversing with them for a while she finds herself with the red king.(The red king is the king of the new land she has entered) Throughout my designated section the scenery always seems to be between two major themes which are a forest and a beach.
The setting in this book is truly what kept me interested because the author made so much attention to detail that you can almost picture it in your head as your reading. Now that to me is awesome.
Most Memorable Moment
The most memorable part of my section is the part when Alice first runs into Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Not only do I remember this because it is the first part of which I had to read but also because the two characters seemed to pop out at me and I could not seem to take my attention away from them. It had something to with their appetence and their almost matching names. Its as if they are mirroring images of one another.
Another thing that made me remember this part of the novel was the poem that they recited to each other after Alice was finished introducing herself. It reminded me of a story that I had heard in grade four. Tweedledum and Tweedledee introduce Alice into this new part of wonderland and also lead her to the red king. They try to convince alice that the king is dreaming and if she stops dancing that she will vanish. Alice later comes to her senses and realizes that they are trying to fool her so as she trys to walk away they grab her and try to distract her from going to the king.
I honestly don’t know one hundred percent why this specific part stuck in my head but as I said before it must have something to do with those two twins, Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Another thing that made me remember this part of the novel was the poem that they recited to each other after Alice was finished introducing herself. It reminded me of a story that I had heard in grade four. Tweedledum and Tweedledee introduce Alice into this new part of wonderland and also lead her to the red king. They try to convince alice that the king is dreaming and if she stops dancing that she will vanish. Alice later comes to her senses and realizes that they are trying to fool her so as she trys to walk away they grab her and try to distract her from going to the king.
I honestly don’t know one hundred percent why this specific part stuck in my head but as I said before it must have something to do with those two twins, Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Questioning and Critical Thinking
1. Why do you think the author used a chess rules to tell the story?
2. Why did the Unicorn quickly change his mind after Haiga called Alice a child?
How did Alice reply?
3. Why was the King so nervous when he saw these creatures?
4. In this story the author said that an outside force was helping Alice all along, for ex The White Knight saving Alice. Who or What do you think that outside force is?
5. Why do you think the White characters and the Red characters have opposite personalities from each other?
2. Why did the Unicorn quickly change his mind after Haiga called Alice a child?
How did Alice reply?
3. Why was the King so nervous when he saw these creatures?
4. In this story the author said that an outside force was helping Alice all along, for ex The White Knight saving Alice. Who or What do you think that outside force is?
5. Why do you think the White characters and the Red characters have opposite personalities from each other?
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Analysis of Setting and Structure
In the story Through the Looking glass the story is told in a metaphor for fate. They use chess rules in the story which in the end Alice becomes the Queen. With the framework of the chess game, Alice has no control to what happens, and outside forces influence her choices and actions. Just as Alice exerts little control of her movement toward becoming a queen, she has no power over her maturation and acceptance of womanhood. At the beginning of the game, Alice acts as a pawn with limited knowledge of the world around her. She has no power to influence outcomes and does not understand the rules of the game, so an outside force guides her along her journey, making different situations and encounters that push her along toward her goal. Though she wants to become a queen, she must follow the rules of the chess game, and she discovers that every step she takes toward her goal occurs because of outside forces acting upon her, such as the mysterious train ride and her rescue by the White Knight. By using the chess game as the guiding principle, Carroll suggests that a larger force guides individuals through life and that all events are preordained. Carroll was trying to imply that someone is watching us and helping us make decisions. Like Alice we don’t have control of our fate right now and we can only do what we can to stay on the right path. This is what the story implies.
Analysis of Setting
Alice comes across the White King, who explains to her that he has sent all of his horses and men and has claimed to put the broken Humpty Dumpty back together again. The King’s messenger Haigha approaches and tells everyone that the Lion and the Unicorn are doing battle in the town. Alice leaves with her new friends toward the town to watch the battle. They catch up with another of the King’s messengers, Hatta. The Lion and Unicorn stop battling and the White King calls for refreshments to be served. The White King tells Alice to cut the cake, but she finds that every time she slices the cake the pieces fuse back together. The Unicorn instructs Alice that Looking-glass cakes must be passed around first before they are sliced. Alice distributes the cake, but before they begin eating, a great noise interrupts, and when Alice looks up, she finds herself alone again. After everyone had disappeared The Red Knight comes up to Alice and takes her as a prisoner. The White Knight arrives at to save Alice and beats the Red Knight. Alice and the White Knight walk and talk about random things. He promises to bring her safely to the last square where she will become a queen. As they walk, he tells her about all of his inventions before sending her off. She crosses the final brook and finds herself sitting on the bank with a crown on her head. Alice finds herself in the company of the Red Queen and the White Queen, who question her before falling asleep in her lap. Alice discovers a castle with a huge door marked “Queen Alice” Alice goes through the door and finds a huge banquet in her honor. After the banquet later wakes up from her dream with Kitty in her hands and wonder if all those adventure were real.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
"Most Memorable Moment" Journal
The most memorable part I remember from reading my section is when Alice met the Unicorn. She said that Unicorns were such fabulous monsters and her and the unicorn repeated several times. This shows how girls Alice’s age like things like Unicorns, dolls and most animals. That why she is getting along with every animal/monster in this book. Most girls would be scared just looking at them. She even met a caterpillar with no eyes smoking a pipe which is very interesting. Later on in the story the Lion and the Unicorn think that they can beat each other in taking the crown. They insult each other until the King interrupts them. The Unicorn called the Lion a chicken which is funny because Lions are supposed to be fierce animals but in this case a Lion was made fun of by a mythical creature. In the Looking-glass the Lion is very tamed creature and wears a monocle. The Unicorn is also wearing some funny clothes which makes it more interesting. Not to mention, that when Alice first heard the Unicorn talk she giggled like a little girl and smiled at the unicorn. Then she goes on to say that Unicorns are such fabulous monsters. Alice also goes on to say "If you believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?" Which is such a girly thing to say in my opinion. I don't blame Alice because her character is supposed to be a well-manner English girl from a rich family. Alice is an ideal eight-year old girl. When I first read this passage, the first thing that came to mind was Alice being an ideal little girl. She obviously falls in love with the Unicorn and giggles when seeing it. After that when the Unicorn was arguing with the Lion I also thought that Alice was cheering on the Unicorn since it was her favourite animal which I'm assuming. In conclusion, in my section this was the only moment that caught my attention because Alice wasn't her well-mannered self , actually showing her girly side and light use of humor.
Character Analysis
Alice is a child who was raised in a wealthy household and is interested in good manners. Alice treats others with kindness and courtesy, as shown in her various encounters with the creatures. She has an active imagination but to fix everything in the world around her. Alice fights to understand the awesome dream world that has sprung from her own imagination; Alice becomes more mature in the book. It transforms into a game of chess, in which her growth into womanhood becomes an adventure to become a queen.
Red Queen is overbearing, overly obsessive about manners, and self-righteous. Like the majority of the characters in Through the Looking-Glass, the Red Queen makes statements with little regard for logic that would support them. Her comments are mostly basic behavioral advice, such as, “Speak when you’re spoken to!” When Alice reveals that most of her comments don’t make any sense the Red Queen just reminds Alice of her authority. She fits into the framework of Alice’s dream as a strict authority.
White Knight jumps in at a moment of crisis to rescue Alice from the hands of the Red Knight, before he helpfully escorts her to the point at which she no longer needs protection and can claim her new title of queen. As he guides her, he is calling attention to the idea of Alice’s transformation into a queen as a metaphor for her maturation into womanhood. The White Knight represents a figure from her childhood who can bring her to the point at which she reaches adulthood before he must let go.
Quotations
Alice: “Thank you very much.” Alice said. “May I help you off with your helmet?”
This shows how well-mannered Alice is. This is after the frightening Red Knight had kidnapped her. The White Knight came to help her and he defeated the red knight. With much politeness Alice thanks him.
Red Queen: “It’s time for you to speak now.” The Queen said as she looked her watch. “Open your mouth much wider when you speak and always say ‘your Majesty’.”
Since the Queen’s logic is completely messed up it is hard to explain this because she thinks that Alice can only speak at certain “times.” Anything else she says are based on behavioral advice.
White Knight: “I see you’re admiring my little box.” The Knight said in a friendly voice. “It’s my own invention- to keep clothes and sandwiches in. You see I carry it upside-down, so that the rain doesn’t get in.”
You see his heart is in the right place but like most characters of this book- they don’t make any sense. How can you keep a open box upside and expect things to say in? Well the characters of his book might think otherwise.
Red Queen is overbearing, overly obsessive about manners, and self-righteous. Like the majority of the characters in Through the Looking-Glass, the Red Queen makes statements with little regard for logic that would support them. Her comments are mostly basic behavioral advice, such as, “Speak when you’re spoken to!” When Alice reveals that most of her comments don’t make any sense the Red Queen just reminds Alice of her authority. She fits into the framework of Alice’s dream as a strict authority.
White Knight jumps in at a moment of crisis to rescue Alice from the hands of the Red Knight, before he helpfully escorts her to the point at which she no longer needs protection and can claim her new title of queen. As he guides her, he is calling attention to the idea of Alice’s transformation into a queen as a metaphor for her maturation into womanhood. The White Knight represents a figure from her childhood who can bring her to the point at which she reaches adulthood before he must let go.
Quotations
Alice: “Thank you very much.” Alice said. “May I help you off with your helmet?”
This shows how well-mannered Alice is. This is after the frightening Red Knight had kidnapped her. The White Knight came to help her and he defeated the red knight. With much politeness Alice thanks him.
Red Queen: “It’s time for you to speak now.” The Queen said as she looked her watch. “Open your mouth much wider when you speak and always say ‘your Majesty’.”
Since the Queen’s logic is completely messed up it is hard to explain this because she thinks that Alice can only speak at certain “times.” Anything else she says are based on behavioral advice.
White Knight: “I see you’re admiring my little box.” The Knight said in a friendly voice. “It’s my own invention- to keep clothes and sandwiches in. You see I carry it upside-down, so that the rain doesn’t get in.”
You see his heart is in the right place but like most characters of this book- they don’t make any sense. How can you keep a open box upside and expect things to say in? Well the characters of his book might think otherwise.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Analysis of Style and Structure
Lewis Carroll is an author that likes to depict her work in images, symbols, and through using a fair amount of literary devices. Lewis Carroll uses the theme for the reader’s excitement and brain and to not make it boring, she uses a lot of mysterious theme into the character “Alice”. This book starts joyful when Alice walks into her house, and then she ends up on the other side of the looking glass, where she is in the reflection of the mirror world to the real world. It gets all scary when a dragon starts coming and attacking Alice and the dragon just disappears. It turns into a mysterious mood when Alice meets up with Tiger-Lily “the talking Sunflower”, she starts to help her out but then she meets up with the Red Queen, the leader of the world. The story turns into a positive mood because the Queen tells her how to get out of this world, in order to get through the mirror of the real world, she has to be queen also. She’s really bossy and demanding at first, then she is kind and full of excitement and helps Alice. In this book, there’s a lot of imagery because Lewis Carroll tries to give the reader a general sense of what all characters look like and how they contrast from each other. Meeting people in this book is Lewis Carroll implements for helping Alice escaping the other side of the mirror. For example, she meets Tiger-lily and the Red Queen and they both help her and guide her on her journey on how to escape the mirror world. These are symbols that represent the sort of solution that Alice needed in the situation because she in a problem, when she was lost and she didn’t know where she was, the queen helped her. This book is literally weird and very exciting to read but some random parts got their ups and down.
Contemporary Revelance
CRAZY HOUSE?!
There has been a mom and a dad complaining about a missing child gone for more then two days, the cops tried their best, now, it’s up to you to find this girl. We have some lead evidence and suspicion of a mysterious hole, and some talking flowers and chess-pieces. We have held in custody the red queen, she isn’t saying anything, and she wants us to reply with your majesty... Unacceptable! She wont say a thing except, “just look through the glass and you might find what you see”. Three days later, we found a magical mirror found in the living room of Alice’s house, a team of an elite force went through the other side of the looking mirror through another dimension and no reply or and sign from them, they must be lost too, just like Alice. We can’t tell for sure what kind of place this is, whether you ant to be there or if you can get there without being hurt.
Now, we need to discover this new dimension, we are not alone, there are creatures beyond you imagination! Anyone is from now on prohibited to enter the property of Alice’s house, we weren’t able to get their last name, and we are investigating their house. We are checking if anything in their house can be dangerous to the human world.
There has been a mom and a dad complaining about a missing child gone for more then two days, the cops tried their best, now, it’s up to you to find this girl. We have some lead evidence and suspicion of a mysterious hole, and some talking flowers and chess-pieces. We have held in custody the red queen, she isn’t saying anything, and she wants us to reply with your majesty... Unacceptable! She wont say a thing except, “just look through the glass and you might find what you see”. Three days later, we found a magical mirror found in the living room of Alice’s house, a team of an elite force went through the other side of the looking mirror through another dimension and no reply or and sign from them, they must be lost too, just like Alice. We can’t tell for sure what kind of place this is, whether you ant to be there or if you can get there without being hurt.
Now, we need to discover this new dimension, we are not alone, there are creatures beyond you imagination! Anyone is from now on prohibited to enter the property of Alice’s house, we weren’t able to get their last name, and we are investigating their house. We are checking if anything in their house can be dangerous to the human world.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Character Analysis
I have read Alice in Wonderland and looking in the glass, and in my section of the book that I have to read, The Red queen, the talking sunflower and Alice were the only people that truly stand out, well the dragon doesn’t because he has no lines.
Alice- is a sensible girl who finds herself in a strange world rules by imagination and fantasy. Alice’s tension comes out when her perspective of the world clashes with the weird, the smart and the scary in the land of the Looking Glass. She is a “brave” and “naïve” who tends to go through places without even thinking first, but she’s only 7. Alice has only one goal in mind and is to become the queen of the land and find her way home, being a queen is her only way. The most important scene is when she reads the book of handwriting because it could do mysterious things like summon a dragon.
Tiger-Lily- A talking sunflower who has 2 other talking sunflowers beside her, probably her friend. She is really “feminine” and likes to “laugh” and answer her own rhetorical questions. She had “red petals” and a “green stem” Her goal is to be aware of her area and make sure nothing bad happens.
The Red Queen- The red queen is really “bossy” but not evil. She has a “soft side” when you are nice to her and she helps you out. She’s all “red” and had some white clothing on and she’s a pawn. She helps Alice and tells her you can only become queen, and then you could find the way home. Then she makes Alice a pawn. The Red queen likes respect a lot and likes to be called “your majesty”. She doesn’t have a goal because since she owns the whole land.
Alice- is a sensible girl who finds herself in a strange world rules by imagination and fantasy. Alice’s tension comes out when her perspective of the world clashes with the weird, the smart and the scary in the land of the Looking Glass. She is a “brave” and “naïve” who tends to go through places without even thinking first, but she’s only 7. Alice has only one goal in mind and is to become the queen of the land and find her way home, being a queen is her only way. The most important scene is when she reads the book of handwriting because it could do mysterious things like summon a dragon.
Tiger-Lily- A talking sunflower who has 2 other talking sunflowers beside her, probably her friend. She is really “feminine” and likes to “laugh” and answer her own rhetorical questions. She had “red petals” and a “green stem” Her goal is to be aware of her area and make sure nothing bad happens.
The Red Queen- The red queen is really “bossy” but not evil. She has a “soft side” when you are nice to her and she helps you out. She’s all “red” and had some white clothing on and she’s a pawn. She helps Alice and tells her you can only become queen, and then you could find the way home. Then she makes Alice a pawn. The Red queen likes respect a lot and likes to be called “your majesty”. She doesn’t have a goal because since she owns the whole land.
Most Memorable Moment "Journal"
This scene had a lot of unusual, awkward, thriller, and mysterious moments. Alice was trapped in the looking glass “other side of the mirror” and then she found a book lying right beside her on the table. This book was read backwards and in stylish handwriting so she directed the book right at the mirror so she can read it front wards. After she read it, it sounded creepy, then a dragon came out of no where beginning to make screaming sounds at Alice. Then the dragon disappeared and it was her imagination and she talks to an owl in the picture, the owl is real and alive. The owl teleports her to a similar wonderland area and she walks to find answers how to get back to her world. Now this is the part where it’s my most memorable scene, she meets with the Queen of Hearts, she is a pawn with like red all over her, and she controls the land. She is sometimes nice and demanding and her pace is very fast like how she runs. This is my most memorable part of the scene that I read in the book because she describes as this game as the chess field where everyone is a piece in this game and like the features of the places of how she explained it was great. The magical book that summoned the dragon was also one of my most memorable parts of the scene because it the first time I read something that has a bad violent creature in it.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Analyisis Of Setting
Through the looking glass is a new adventure now since Alice got out of wonderland. It all starts in the afternoon, and she runs to her house to see her parents. When she entered her house, she is in a new parallel dimension where everything is a reflection of her. She walks in her house and she is separated by mirrors from the real world through the reflection world and she’s in the reflection world. Alice is invisible and no one could hear her or see her until an owl comes out of a picture and guides her through a new journey, into a new world. She explores this new world and meets up with the Red Queen. Then the Queen informed her that this world is a big board game. The board game was chess; most of the field had big blocks or checkered colours with people everywhere playing as a piece in this game. It’s probably a economic kind of, well mostly its monarchy since there is a castle in the middle of the field and there are Kings and Queens.
Here is the link when Alice was stuck in a parallel dimension on the other side of the mirror - http://www.procolharum.com/003/looking-glass.jpg
Here is when she is in the land of through the looking glass, sort of like wonderland - http://www.inewscatcher.com/timages/cf6e190f53aa6abc8285210308cfe9cb.jpg
Here is when she was in the land of chess -http://www.treehugger.com/world-as-chess-board-image
Here is the link when Alice was stuck in a parallel dimension on the other side of the mirror - http://www.procolharum.com/003/looking-glass.jpg
Here is when she is in the land of through the looking glass, sort of like wonderland - http://www.inewscatcher.com/timages/cf6e190f53aa6abc8285210308cfe9cb.jpg
Here is when she was in the land of chess -http://www.treehugger.com/world-as-chess-board-image
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Contemporary Relevance
Breaking News!
The disappearance of a young girl by the name of "Alice" has caused suspicion in the neighborhood as Alice was last seen with a "talking rabbit". The rabbit has been taken into custody for further questioning. No clues have been found, but an extraordinary deep rabbit hole has been discovered in the premises. Further investigation will take place, as police close down the neighborhood. Expert Scientists say that the rabbit hole is actually a "Worm Hole" that transports organisms into another dimension. This dimension is filled with many fictional, talking, extraordinary, strange creatures. Police say that they have no choice, but to leave Alice down there until further investigation on the rabbit hole takes place. Alice is presumably dead.
The disappearance of a young girl by the name of "Alice" has caused suspicion in the neighborhood as Alice was last seen with a "talking rabbit". The rabbit has been taken into custody for further questioning. No clues have been found, but an extraordinary deep rabbit hole has been discovered in the premises. Further investigation will take place, as police close down the neighborhood. Expert Scientists say that the rabbit hole is actually a "Worm Hole" that transports organisms into another dimension. This dimension is filled with many fictional, talking, extraordinary, strange creatures. Police say that they have no choice, but to leave Alice down there until further investigation on the rabbit hole takes place. Alice is presumably dead.
Analysis of Setting
These were some images that I came up with while reading my section of the book:
- http://www.itpremium.com/portfolio/2dgraphics/gryphon.jpg
- https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLRzEJSbtfdv_Htd-EN_eOfqlhSaIKVmvIDTDr_sbVRBAUoTjHP4oSmt_vfKvBEtDoWPuT9G3QUYT9g591ZSg_2rq9yNUHzcgIwLL6kDHbZ0GWPJd7WTJB7AIwoM7A5k_iXBZ-w3Jyvs8l/s400/turtle+crying.jpg
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"Most Memorable Moment Journal "
I felt that my section of the book was very strange and random. The book is introduced to two more strange creatures ( a Gryphon, and a Calf-headed Turtle) that later on teach Alice to sing and dance with Lobsters. In my opinion, that was the most memorable moment in my section.
The scene starts off with The red Queen ordering The Gryphon to wake up and take Alice to see the Mock Turtle. When Alice and the Gryphon arrive to the Mock Turtle's home, they already start to see and hear the Turtle crying, sobbing, and sighing. The Gryphon and Alice then sits down to hear the Mock Turtles story and why he was so sad. The turtle explains how he was once a regular turtle, and how he went to a underwater school. He continues to explain that he had the best possible education, and that he was fortunate enough to learn the "Lobster Quadrille". Explaining the "Lobster Quadrille", the Gryphon and Mock turtle begin to start dancing and singing with very random, and strange lyrics.
This part of my section was the most memorable because as the Mock turtle tells his story, there are many points in the conversation that involved "play-on-words" puns. For example: Alice asks the turtle why his teacher's name was "tortoise" if he wasn't a tortoise, and the Mock Turtle responds with "Because he taught us.
After reading my section, I found that this book was very strange, random, and riddiculous, much like a stupid dream.
The scene starts off with The red Queen ordering The Gryphon to wake up and take Alice to see the Mock Turtle. When Alice and the Gryphon arrive to the Mock Turtle's home, they already start to see and hear the Turtle crying, sobbing, and sighing. The Gryphon and Alice then sits down to hear the Mock Turtles story and why he was so sad. The turtle explains how he was once a regular turtle, and how he went to a underwater school. He continues to explain that he had the best possible education, and that he was fortunate enough to learn the "Lobster Quadrille". Explaining the "Lobster Quadrille", the Gryphon and Mock turtle begin to start dancing and singing with very random, and strange lyrics.
This part of my section was the most memorable because as the Mock turtle tells his story, there are many points in the conversation that involved "play-on-words" puns. For example: Alice asks the turtle why his teacher's name was "tortoise" if he wasn't a tortoise, and the Mock Turtle responds with "Because he taught us.
After reading my section, I found that this book was very strange, random, and riddiculous, much like a stupid dream.
Character Analysis
Alice - Alice is a little girl born in a wealthy, English family. After a pursuit of a white, talking rabbit, she finds herself lost in a strange world ruled by imagination and fantasy. As the story progresses, we observe that Alice is very curious, talkative, sensitive, and daring. But as the story continues, Alice becomes brave, caring, and heroic. Alice's goal is to help the creatures of wonderland, discover more about its mysterious, extraordinary setting and also find out more about how and why she ends up in Wonderland. Her goal is to stop the Red Queen and save Wonderland. Her motive in doing so is freeing all the wonderful, innocent creatures of Wonderland.
The Queen of Hearts - An evil, big red-headed Queen who dictates all of Wonderland. She is an impatient, hasty,
rude dictator who has no respect for wonderland or any of the creatures in it. Her goal is to have everything her way, and to keep it that way. With the help of her guards, King, "pets", and Jabberwockee (a destructive, fire-breathing dragon) she gets everything she wants by force.
The Gryphon/ The Mock Turtle - The Gryphon is a mythical creature with the body of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle. The mock Turtle is a turtle with the head of a calf. The Gryphon is a very generous creature, as the Mock turtle is a very sad creature. They are introduced when the Queen orders the Griffin, who lazily wakes up from his nap to take Alice to see the Mock turtle as he tells his sad story. These two creatures are significant in my section because as the story progresses, a friendship is formed between them.
The Queen of Hearts - An evil, big red-headed Queen who dictates all of Wonderland. She is an impatient, hasty,
rude dictator who has no respect for wonderland or any of the creatures in it. Her goal is to have everything her way, and to keep it that way. With the help of her guards, King, "pets", and Jabberwockee (a destructive, fire-breathing dragon) she gets everything she wants by force.
The Gryphon/ The Mock Turtle - The Gryphon is a mythical creature with the body of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle. The mock Turtle is a turtle with the head of a calf. The Gryphon is a very generous creature, as the Mock turtle is a very sad creature. They are introduced when the Queen orders the Griffin, who lazily wakes up from his nap to take Alice to see the Mock turtle as he tells his sad story. These two creatures are significant in my section because as the story progresses, a friendship is formed between them.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Contemporary Relevance
News Article
By: Tyrone Saulon Mysterious Disappearances
There has been an outbreak of disappearances around Eclipse Boulevard and the few that were rescued from the rabbit hole claim to have witnessed unimaginable creatures and impossible realities. The victims claim to have been lead by a white rabbit with a stop watch so out of curiosity the victims decided to follow in its tracks without hesitation. The families of these innocent victims say that they've gone crazy and they don't know what they're saying and we are think that they have accumulated some kind of psychological problem after falling into the hole. They claim this place to be some kind of Wonderland. The police have locked down the area and banned any mysterious white rabbits holding stop watches claiming to be late for an appointment.
Analysis of Setting
These are links that could portray what Alice's perception is of Wonderland:
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Most Memorable Journal
The pages I read which were assigned to me I found to be unusual, impossible, and complete nonsense. This includes the part of having eating certain sides of a mushroom to increase or decrease Alice's height. I found the part where she was at the Mad Hatter's Tea party to be nonsense and unusual because the Mad Hatter out of nowhere pulls out a riddle asking "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" which of course Alice could not answer and neither could the Mad Hatter who made up the ridiculous riddle in the first place. Another scene in the chapter is where The March Hare's watch which measure the day of the month is broken so he decides to spread some butter on it and suddenly just dips his watch in his cup of tea and looks into Alice's eyes and says " It was the best butter". I did not understand what just happened.
Another part of the book was when the Duchess threw a live baby at Alice, Why and for what reason would a person throw a baby at someone!? After reading this section I find to believe that this book is utterly ridiculous.
Another part of the book was when the Duchess threw a live baby at Alice, Why and for what reason would a person throw a baby at someone!? After reading this section I find to believe that this book is utterly ridiculous.
Character Analysis
While reading my part of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and through the Looking Glass" I have found that the Queen, The Cheshire Cat, and of course Alice were the Three in the book amongst which I have found that truly stands out, and most influential to readers.
Alice is a sensible girl who finds her in a strange world ruled by imagination and fantasy. Alice's tension come's out when her perspective of the world clashes with the mad, and insane world of wonderland. Wonderland questions her perception of good manners by repetitively coming into contact with inexcusable rudeness. She tries to persevere in the way she lives her life but her sense of rules are falling apart. Alice should choose between staying with her beliefs and order, or falling to Wonderland's rules and logic. Because her logic doesn't match up with Wonderlands, she is considered mad by the creatures in wonderland.
The Cheshire Cat is unlike any creatures in Wonderland. It keeps a calm, and lonely state of mind. The Cheshire Cat knows the labors of Wonderland altogether. The Cat explains to Alice that in order to be in Wonderland you must become mad or in other words, crazy.
The Queen of Hearts is the overlord of Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts is the character that Alice must eventually confront to figure out the mystery of Wonderland. In a way the Queen of Hearts is actually really the center of Alice's problems. The Queen of hearts isn't like any of the citizens of Wonderland, she isn't concerned with nonsense and twisted logic because she is with complete authority. She is a feared by all, even by The King of Hearts
Alice is a sensible girl who finds her in a strange world ruled by imagination and fantasy. Alice's tension come's out when her perspective of the world clashes with the mad, and insane world of wonderland. Wonderland questions her perception of good manners by repetitively coming into contact with inexcusable rudeness. She tries to persevere in the way she lives her life but her sense of rules are falling apart. Alice should choose between staying with her beliefs and order, or falling to Wonderland's rules and logic. Because her logic doesn't match up with Wonderlands, she is considered mad by the creatures in wonderland.
The Cheshire Cat is unlike any creatures in Wonderland. It keeps a calm, and lonely state of mind. The Cheshire Cat knows the labors of Wonderland altogether. The Cat explains to Alice that in order to be in Wonderland you must become mad or in other words, crazy.
The Queen of Hearts is the overlord of Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts is the character that Alice must eventually confront to figure out the mystery of Wonderland. In a way the Queen of Hearts is actually really the center of Alice's problems. The Queen of hearts isn't like any of the citizens of Wonderland, she isn't concerned with nonsense and twisted logic because she is with complete authority. She is a feared by all, even by The King of Hearts
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Contemporary Relevance
A Dangerous... Hole
Gagan Khattra
Thursday,
There have been recent reports of several missing individuals near 133 Wither by Dr, the house of one known as Alice. Alice has also been reported since Tuesday of last week. We went and inspected the situation and we found the weirdest sort of thing that some of us have ever seen, it was a monstrously large rabbit hole that seemed to go REALLY, REALLY, REALLY far into the earth.
Our reporters have gotten contact with someone down inside the hole but there were very limited connections which only give us very scarce information about what the situation was down there. We heard something about a hall of doors, a couple of empty jars and a fancy looking mirror. We have no clue what any of these things meant, or whether this man could`ve possibly gone insane. We also heard something much unexpected, that there were animals who could talk, and that the animals were superior to humans. We can`t tell for sure what kind of place this is, whether you would want to be there or if you could get there without being hurt, but for now we should just worry about more important things and not look into this too much.
Analysis of Setting
Alice in Wonderland has various settings starting from a hot summer day, when Alice is all relaxed lying down by the river, to a point where she is actually swimming in a place that she thinks is on the other side of the earth because of the long fall she had to get there. Alice is used to all of these customs, manners, and rules, so when she gets down there everything she ever learned had just been “thrown out of the window” because no one really cared how they appealed to others and what they would think of them.
When Alice falls down through the rabbit hole there is a mood of excitement and suspense of what could be down there, courtesy of Lewis Carroll. Not too long after she arrives in a mysterious hallway with a whole bunch of doors. Then, shortly it becomes an exciting swim for your life situation when she has to swim her way out through the door in her own tears.
This is an example of endless doors at which Alice eventually finds a table with a golden key, http://image.wareseeker.com/software/Home-Shell-Desktop/Places-Screen-Savers/details_3d-matrix-screensaver-the-endless-corridors-1.2.jpg This next link is with a picture of Alice falling down the rabbit hole almost endlessly, and while she’s falling she sees many strange things passing by her, http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alicepic/disney-movie/alice-falling-down-rabbit-hole-1.jpg This final link is to a picture where Alice is swimming with the mouse trying to start a conversation but can’t seem to say the right thing, http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4236780454_4e20463c55.jpg
When Alice falls down through the rabbit hole there is a mood of excitement and suspense of what could be down there, courtesy of Lewis Carroll. Not too long after she arrives in a mysterious hallway with a whole bunch of doors. Then, shortly it becomes an exciting swim for your life situation when she has to swim her way out through the door in her own tears.
This is an example of endless doors at which Alice eventually finds a table with a golden key, http://image.wareseeker.com/software/Home-Shell-Desktop/Places-Screen-Savers/details_3d-matrix-screensaver-the-endless-corridors-1.2.jpg This next link is with a picture of Alice falling down the rabbit hole almost endlessly, and while she’s falling she sees many strange things passing by her, http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alicepic/disney-movie/alice-falling-down-rabbit-hole-1.jpg This final link is to a picture where Alice is swimming with the mouse trying to start a conversation but can’t seem to say the right thing, http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4236780454_4e20463c55.jpg
Character Analysis
Alice in Wonderland is a book with many strange, interesting and influencing characters some of which who don`t have ordinary perspectives and personalities. In my section of the book, first fifty-five pages, there were basically only three characters that really stood out, the Rabbit, the Mouse, and of course Alice.
First of all there is Alice, who discovers a rather unusual rabbit hole because when she stumbled upon it and fell inside it almost seemed as though as it were an endless fall. Alice had very good behavior but she later learns that where she has gone it there are no rules and manners don`t apply anymore. Alice had a goal in the scene to follow the rabbit and see where he would lead her, it lead her deep below the earth into a strange place. Alice wanted to get to the garden but didn`t get there.
The rabbit is probably the most important part of the scene because if he wasn`t there then Alice wouldn`t have wandered off and fell through the whole and this whole story wouldn`t have been possible. The rabbit`s goal in this scene is to get back to his duties quickly because he is already late, in a rush, and he also ends up losing the items that are crucial for him to perform his duties.
The final character in this scene is the emotion mouse; Alice meets the mouse when she has to swim in a river of her own tears. The mouse is emotional because it gets upset and annoyed every time Alice brings up something about her cat or something to do with dogs. The mouse`s goal is to get away from Alice and the grief that she is causing it with her nonstop talking and explanation of stories.
First of all there is Alice, who discovers a rather unusual rabbit hole because when she stumbled upon it and fell inside it almost seemed as though as it were an endless fall. Alice had very good behavior but she later learns that where she has gone it there are no rules and manners don`t apply anymore. Alice had a goal in the scene to follow the rabbit and see where he would lead her, it lead her deep below the earth into a strange place. Alice wanted to get to the garden but didn`t get there.
The rabbit is probably the most important part of the scene because if he wasn`t there then Alice wouldn`t have wandered off and fell through the whole and this whole story wouldn`t have been possible. The rabbit`s goal in this scene is to get back to his duties quickly because he is already late, in a rush, and he also ends up losing the items that are crucial for him to perform his duties.
The final character in this scene is the emotion mouse; Alice meets the mouse when she has to swim in a river of her own tears. The mouse is emotional because it gets upset and annoyed every time Alice brings up something about her cat or something to do with dogs. The mouse`s goal is to get away from Alice and the grief that she is causing it with her nonstop talking and explanation of stories.
Most Memorable Journal
My scene had a lot of funny, unusual, and awkward moments, some of which included the part where Alice was falling down the rabbit hole for a very long time. Also, when Alice was physically changing heights and sizes, from being short as a mouse to being about nine feet tall. There was also a point in the scene where Alice was actually swimming in her own tears because she was too tall to fit through the door and because she ate a cake she shrunk small enough to swim in her own tears.
The part of the scene that I remember the most, and that sticks out when I refer to my scene is the part where Alice eventually swims out of her tears with the mouse and meets up with all of the different creatures, birds, and animals that were also caught up in the river. This was most memorable because Alice was so surprised that all of these animals and creatures were with her the whole time, and what made it even better was the fact that she didn’t know all of them could talk so she seemed really stunned when this had happened. The part that I found funny was when all of the animals crowed her because they were looking for a prize from winning a game previously. Alice thought at that moment that the whole thing was very absurd, but since all the animals looked so grave she didn’t dare to laugh; she also couldn’t think of any response to what had happened so she just simply bowed to them giving her a thimble.
The part of the scene that I remember the most, and that sticks out when I refer to my scene is the part where Alice eventually swims out of her tears with the mouse and meets up with all of the different creatures, birds, and animals that were also caught up in the river. This was most memorable because Alice was so surprised that all of these animals and creatures were with her the whole time, and what made it even better was the fact that she didn’t know all of them could talk so she seemed really stunned when this had happened. The part that I found funny was when all of the animals crowed her because they were looking for a prize from winning a game previously. Alice thought at that moment that the whole thing was very absurd, but since all the animals looked so grave she didn’t dare to laugh; she also couldn’t think of any response to what had happened so she just simply bowed to them giving her a thimble.
Analysis of Style and Structure
Lewis Carroll is an author that likes to depict her work in images, symbols, and through using a fair amount of literary devices. Lewis uses a main theme that surrounds the book and I think that theme is mystery because she puts the main character Alice into a world where there aren`t any rules, animals can talk and are in fact superior to humans, and a world where basically anything can happen.
This book starts with a joyful tone when Alice is by the river on a sunny day, and eventually starts chasing a rabbit that is supposedly not an everyday rabbit. Then, not too soon it turns into a sort of sad tone because Alice can`t seem to find her way through the doors. Then finally it turns into a humorous mood because she meets up with this mouse and she tries to make him feel better but really messes up with her wording.
In this book there`s a lot of imagery because Lewis Carroll tries to give the reader a general sense of what all the characters look like and how they contrast from each other. The other main thing about this book that makes it stand out from others and something that I haven`t seen before in any other book is the fact that Lewis Carroll implements food as a sort of cure to Alice`s problems. For example the cake makes Alice grow bigger and the potion makes her shrink. These are symbols that represent the sort of solution that Alice needed in the situation because she had a conflict, such as when she couldn`t fit through the door she used different tactics to try and find her way. I think that everyone should be given a chance to read this book because you never know what can happen next in the crazy world of Alice’s Wonderland.
This book starts with a joyful tone when Alice is by the river on a sunny day, and eventually starts chasing a rabbit that is supposedly not an everyday rabbit. Then, not too soon it turns into a sort of sad tone because Alice can`t seem to find her way through the doors. Then finally it turns into a humorous mood because she meets up with this mouse and she tries to make him feel better but really messes up with her wording.
In this book there`s a lot of imagery because Lewis Carroll tries to give the reader a general sense of what all the characters look like and how they contrast from each other. The other main thing about this book that makes it stand out from others and something that I haven`t seen before in any other book is the fact that Lewis Carroll implements food as a sort of cure to Alice`s problems. For example the cake makes Alice grow bigger and the potion makes her shrink. These are symbols that represent the sort of solution that Alice needed in the situation because she had a conflict, such as when she couldn`t fit through the door she used different tactics to try and find her way. I think that everyone should be given a chance to read this book because you never know what can happen next in the crazy world of Alice’s Wonderland.
Monday, April 26, 2010
First Impression
This book is absolute unbelievable and creative to the point where we have a rabbit talking, like I mean a kind of idea inside of a human mind. Overall, I read the first 50 pages so far and I think it’s really getting somewhere where things get more dangerous, but it’s hard to follow because some things don’t make sense. The characters that I know so far in the book are Alice, a little girl who puts herself into danger. Then there is a Rabbit, he can talk and nervous and always runs away seeming he has something important to do. Then there is the mouse, this mouse is a little bigger than Alice and is sensitive and scared of creatures in the place “Wonderland”.
Its starts off with Alice chasing the Rabbit and falls into this huge Rabbit Hole, at the end of the Rabbit Hole, she is in a mysterious place leading to lots of doors and the floor is checkered black-white. This gets the reader confused you never seen in your mind the particular area I mentioned in this paragraph. After it gets the reader thinking and want to read more. Alice finds a glass bottle on a table and she drinks it, this product makes her shrink. Then there is a cake that appeared, if you eat it, you grow until your head’s hit the ceiling. The reader is guessing that food from the Wonderland can give you side effects. Alice finds a way out the room of a thousand doors by a trap door leading outside in her shrunk size. She lands in a pool of her tears. This confuses the reader but gets him interested, the world she’s in is a land full of Wonders. She meets a mouse in the pool of tears, this guy is sensitive and gets frighten when you say dogs, or cats in front of him, guess he has past nightmares when he was little. They went to shore and the land has the greenest grass, and mushrooms larger than a human. As you see, the reader can quite picture this in their mind and gets them really thinking what else is going to happen, something out of the ordinary, waiting for mysterious creatures. This book is fantastic and this is great book.
Its starts off with Alice chasing the Rabbit and falls into this huge Rabbit Hole, at the end of the Rabbit Hole, she is in a mysterious place leading to lots of doors and the floor is checkered black-white. This gets the reader confused you never seen in your mind the particular area I mentioned in this paragraph. After it gets the reader thinking and want to read more. Alice finds a glass bottle on a table and she drinks it, this product makes her shrink. Then there is a cake that appeared, if you eat it, you grow until your head’s hit the ceiling. The reader is guessing that food from the Wonderland can give you side effects. Alice finds a way out the room of a thousand doors by a trap door leading outside in her shrunk size. She lands in a pool of her tears. This confuses the reader but gets him interested, the world she’s in is a land full of Wonders. She meets a mouse in the pool of tears, this guy is sensitive and gets frighten when you say dogs, or cats in front of him, guess he has past nightmares when he was little. They went to shore and the land has the greenest grass, and mushrooms larger than a human. As you see, the reader can quite picture this in their mind and gets them really thinking what else is going to happen, something out of the ordinary, waiting for mysterious creatures. This book is fantastic and this is great book.
First Impression
After Reading the first few chapters of "Alice in Wonderland" I discovered that it is no ordinary story. The story begins with Alice in pursuit of a talking rabbit. After falling down in a very deep rabbit hole, Alice finds herself in an extraordinary dimension with imaginary creatures.
In my opinion, the tone of the book is very mysterious, mystical, interesting, and unpredictable. I think this story is unpredictable because the story is filled with many weird creatures and is full of many twists and cliffhangers from the very beginning. This leaves the reader curious, and guessing from the very first page.
The story is also given a very interesting storyline. At the moment, the plot is confusing and vague and should clear up in the next few chapters. The story is about a big, red headed Queen who dictates a mystical world known as "Wonderland". Just when Wonderland needs help most, Alice is "accidentally" lead down by the rabbit. This may foreshadow future heroism in the story.
The main character Alice, is a very curious, and childish child. From what I have read so far, Alice seems to be a very talkative, daring, adventurous, and sensitive child. She also cries a lot. (She literally almost drowned herself in tears. ) But as the story progresses, I think we will start to see Alice's Heroic, and Courageous characteristics.
In my conclusion, I think the authour did a great job making the book very mysterious, and extraordinary. With all the unusual and weird creatures that is introduced to the reader, I think Louise Carol has done a fantastic job portraying a "Wonderland" theme.
In my opinion, the tone of the book is very mysterious, mystical, interesting, and unpredictable. I think this story is unpredictable because the story is filled with many weird creatures and is full of many twists and cliffhangers from the very beginning. This leaves the reader curious, and guessing from the very first page.
The story is also given a very interesting storyline. At the moment, the plot is confusing and vague and should clear up in the next few chapters. The story is about a big, red headed Queen who dictates a mystical world known as "Wonderland". Just when Wonderland needs help most, Alice is "accidentally" lead down by the rabbit. This may foreshadow future heroism in the story.
The main character Alice, is a very curious, and childish child. From what I have read so far, Alice seems to be a very talkative, daring, adventurous, and sensitive child. She also cries a lot. (She literally almost drowned herself in tears. ) But as the story progresses, I think we will start to see Alice's Heroic, and Courageous characteristics.
In my conclusion, I think the authour did a great job making the book very mysterious, and extraordinary. With all the unusual and weird creatures that is introduced to the reader, I think Louise Carol has done a fantastic job portraying a "Wonderland" theme.
Friday, April 23, 2010
First Impression
After reading forty four pages from the book “Alice in wonderland”, I realized that it was very quire and much different from our ordinary children book. It was a bit confusing, at first. In the beginning Alice follows a talking white rabbit and during the chase she falls down what seeme to be a never ending rabbit hole. Once she finally hits bottom of the hole, she seems to be in a completely new, purely imaginative world.
So far I only know about four characters, Alice, Alice’s sister, a rabbit, and Alice’s cat(Dinah) I have a very vague image of most of the characters. So far all that I know is that Alice seems to be very outgoing and can never stop talking. She seems to have a mild case of ADD, and the last thing I know is that she is chasing a very spastic white rabbit who is always rushing and saying “I’m Late”. The bunny also has a little suit and a watch attached to a silver chain.
In the beginning of the story it states that Alice and her sister are sitting on “the bank”. Later Alice starts to follow a white rabbit around and falls down a rabbit hole. As she Is falling down she notices that on the walls of the hole there are a bunch of pictures pinned all around. Then she finally drops all the way to the bottom of the hole and she sees herself, in what seems to be, a brand new extraordinary world with imaginary creatures.
This book, so far, seems to be very mysterious and extremely unpredictable. This is why it tends to be very confusing to most readers. The book has so many surprise “twists” and problems within the first twenty five pages that it leaves everyone curious which makes them want to read more and more. Lewis Carroll has done an outstanding job so far, keeping me hooked and I just cant wait to continue reading.
So far I only know about four characters, Alice, Alice’s sister, a rabbit, and Alice’s cat(Dinah) I have a very vague image of most of the characters. So far all that I know is that Alice seems to be very outgoing and can never stop talking. She seems to have a mild case of ADD, and the last thing I know is that she is chasing a very spastic white rabbit who is always rushing and saying “I’m Late”. The bunny also has a little suit and a watch attached to a silver chain.
In the beginning of the story it states that Alice and her sister are sitting on “the bank”. Later Alice starts to follow a white rabbit around and falls down a rabbit hole. As she Is falling down she notices that on the walls of the hole there are a bunch of pictures pinned all around. Then she finally drops all the way to the bottom of the hole and she sees herself, in what seems to be, a brand new extraordinary world with imaginary creatures.
This book, so far, seems to be very mysterious and extremely unpredictable. This is why it tends to be very confusing to most readers. The book has so many surprise “twists” and problems within the first twenty five pages that it leaves everyone curious which makes them want to read more and more. Lewis Carroll has done an outstanding job so far, keeping me hooked and I just cant wait to continue reading.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
First Impressions Journal
After watching the Disney movie of this book numerous times as a kid I guess I was able to expect what was coming, however the other half of the book is called "Through the Looking Glass" so I believe that reading that there will be a whole lot more crazy stuff happening, in this continuation.
In the first chapter, 'Down The Rabbit-Hole', It narrates how Alice was by the river bank bored of her sister reading her a book. Out of no where Alice see's a rabbit run past her and it pulls out a stopwatch afraid it will be late for something. The rabbit then runs past the meadows and into a hole. Alice tries to run after the rabbit and catch it but then stumbles down the hole where the rabbit dived into. Alice fell slowly down the hole, as if she was floating down to the bottom. She then falls onto the floor with the normal gravitational pull, unhurt. She catches a glimpse of the white rabbit, then disappears around the corner.
She finds herself in a room with several doors, and a key sitting on a table in the middle of the room. She uses the key to try and open each door, then finds a door behind a curtain which the key was able to be used and unlocked the door. However the door was too small for her to possibly fit in it. she goes back to the table hoping to find something to help her out. She finds a bottle that has a tag on it, and written on the tag says "Drink Me". She then shrinks but then realizes as she shrank that she left the key on the table which she was now too small to reach. She then finds a cake that also had a tag saying "Eat Me", She eats it.
All this that is being explained in the novel is completely preposterous and impossible, I mean eating edible items that will change your size and being, falling down a rabbit hole and falling down as if you were drifting through space. All this is crazy however it is called Wonderland so i guess the place must be full of imaginative beings.
Character Analysis
Alice
Alice is an educated young girl from a wealthy English family who finds herself in a strange world ruled by imagination and fantasy. Alice feels comfortable with herself and has a strong sense that her environment is made up of imagination and magic. Alice’s knowledge with the world has led me to describe her as a “crazy, imaginative little girl”. Alice uses her curiosity to try and figure out what this new world consists of.
Alice approaches wonderland as if she is the only educated proper girl there.( which later she finds out is true) Despite the fact that she thinks she is number one, she still enters wonderland with an open imaginative mind, just like any little girl would, but puts on her own “poker face” to try and make the others living there think otherwise.
The Cheshire Cat
The Cheshire Cat is the most unique creature in wonderland. Threatened by no one, it maintains a cool, outsider status. The Cheshire Catis basically the “inside man” of wonderland, He tends to always know everything that has happened. Wonderland is ruled by nonsense, and as a result, Alice’s normal behavior changes from its operating principles, so Alice herself becomes crazy in Wonderland.
The Queen of Hearts
As the ruler of Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts is the character that Alice must face to figure out the puzzle of Wonderland. In a way the Queen of Hearts is like the heart of Alice’s conflict. Unlike many of the other characters in Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts is not as concerned with nonsense of logic as she is with rule and execution. In Wonderland, she is a singular force of fear who even dominates the King of Hearts.
Alice is an educated young girl from a wealthy English family who finds herself in a strange world ruled by imagination and fantasy. Alice feels comfortable with herself and has a strong sense that her environment is made up of imagination and magic. Alice’s knowledge with the world has led me to describe her as a “crazy, imaginative little girl”. Alice uses her curiosity to try and figure out what this new world consists of.
Alice approaches wonderland as if she is the only educated proper girl there.( which later she finds out is true) Despite the fact that she thinks she is number one, she still enters wonderland with an open imaginative mind, just like any little girl would, but puts on her own “poker face” to try and make the others living there think otherwise.
The Cheshire Cat
The Cheshire Cat is the most unique creature in wonderland. Threatened by no one, it maintains a cool, outsider status. The Cheshire Catis basically the “inside man” of wonderland, He tends to always know everything that has happened. Wonderland is ruled by nonsense, and as a result, Alice’s normal behavior changes from its operating principles, so Alice herself becomes crazy in Wonderland.
The Queen of Hearts
As the ruler of Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts is the character that Alice must face to figure out the puzzle of Wonderland. In a way the Queen of Hearts is like the heart of Alice’s conflict. Unlike many of the other characters in Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts is not as concerned with nonsense of logic as she is with rule and execution. In Wonderland, she is a singular force of fear who even dominates the King of Hearts.
First Impressions Journal
Alice in Wonderland is not a normal book; it doesn’t have a normal monster that is something out of the ordinary. This book is quite special in the sense that everything that Alice experiences is very suspicious and makes you think, there’s no way this even makes sense. The book starts off with Alice lying down by a river with her sister beside her, who is reading a book, on a very hot summer day which made her sleepy (Possible Foreshadowing and seems suspicious) and tired. A couple of pages later she’s falling down a seemingly endless hole in the middle of no where, to do what? Follow a rabbit that she thinks is talking, which of course isn’t normal.
After falling down this hole, she arrives in a place which I believe to be Wonderland because nothing ordinary could end up being that far into the Earth. I presume that the overall tone of the book is just to be mysterious and to leave cliffhangers throughout the chapters to lure the reader’s attention and to keep them reading the book. It’s not too soon that Alice meets up with birds, fish, and other various creatures that could in fact talk to her, respond to how she feels and reply what she says.
Right now from the first fifty-five pages of the book I’ve read, this book seems interesting because of the fact that there are very weird creatures being introduced to the reader and very unusual objects that Alice herself is introduced to. For example, the drink that says “Drink Me” isn’t something you would find everyday. Or even the cake that says “Eat Me”. Even if there was a drink and a cake that says that, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t make you grow nine feet tall or shrink to the size of an ant.
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