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.