Title: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
The main character is a little girl named Alice and while she is dreaming she is in a wonderland.
Author: Lewis Carroll - his real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgsen. He lived in England all his life. Lewis had many professions, besides being an author, he was also a mathematician, logician, Anglican Clergyman and photographer. He was born in 1832 and had a stammer problem. But he was a very good entertainer. In 1856 he met the Liddell family, who he grew very fond of. Many say their young daughter Alice is the inspiration for Alice from the book, although he always denied it. There is one poem at the end of ‘Through the Looking Glass’ where you can read Alice Liddell’s full name if you take the first letter from each line reading downwards.
Number of pages: 100
Characters: the main character is off course Alice. She is a young girl who has a lot of imagination and likes to be active. She has a cat, which she frequently talks about and an older sister, which she is with in the beginning and the end of the book. Alice likes to talk with herself, like she has two personalities. You can read that she also likes to sound smart and wants to be smart, whenever she gives comment that she thinks sounds very mature, she is very proud of herself.
The last main character is the White Rabbit. He doesn’t exactly talk to Alice that much, but wherever Alice goes, she almost always sees him there. He is a very stressed person and forgets a lot of things while he is in a hurry. He works for the queen and he talks very fast.
Setting: The book does not really say when this story takes place but it is probably in the 1800’s. and she probably lives in England. Alice is first outside, with her sister, who is reading. After she goes through the rabbit hole she is underground and goes from place to place. She is mostly in the house of the duchess and the Queen’s garden.
Quotes: 1) when Alice looks for something to eat or drink she finds a mushroom of about her size. She looks on top of it and there is caterpillar smoking a hookah. When he notices her, he asks her ‘Who are you?’ and she doesn’t really know what to answer to that. Because she believes that she is no longer in her own body, and that she is a completely different person. Throughout the book she thinks about this and argues about it with herself.
2) The Queen loves to execute people and therefore her favorite quote is ‘Off with his/her head!’ this shows you how scary this woman is and why everybody is afraid of the queen, even her husband a little bit. When Alice meets the Queen, you’ll see this quote quite a lot.
Theme: I think the theme is humor and the unknowing
Comment: I have never seen the movie and I had never read the book. I knew a little bit about the story and was very excited to read it. But I really was disappointed. A lot of different things happened (Alice met a lot of different creatures) in a short time, and so it felt like there really wasn’t that much of a story line, it all just happened. The creatures were very strange, just like Alice. They all talked to themselves and never answered to anybody. Especially Alice was different. She had so many conversations with herself. Personally, I just thought it would be a fun book, but I didn’t think it was interesting and I really did not enjoy reading it.
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