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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
and
Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
Characters
Alice: she is the main character who goes through wonderland and through the looking-glass place. She interrupts a lot and does not let people control her.
White Rabbit: leads Alice to Wonderland. Keeps popping up throughout the first book.
Hatter: First meets Alice while drinking tea. Alice defends him at the trial
The Queen: The queen over the cards. She constantly wants control over people and wants to chop the people's heads off. Tries to gain control over Alice and Alice does not let her.
Caterpillar: Tries to help Alice figure out who she is. He tells her to keep her temper
Chesire Cat: Leads her to meet the Queen and the Hatter. Meets Alice at the Crochet match and refuses to be told what to do by the King.
The Red Queen: tells her how to get through The Looking-glass place.
Humpty Dumpty: Tries to outsmart and take control over Alice when he first meets her.
Setting
Field with her sister
The looking-glass place
It is set up like a checker board
Wonderland
Theme
Alice is trying to figure out who she is in this new world while she is going through many changes
Alice questions adults and talks back to them. Always tries to keep her power.
Author (Lewis Carroll)
Born in
Chesire
England. Chesire cat was created because cheesemakers in the area molded the cheese with a cat’s grinning face, and sliced from the back, so that the cat would slowly disappear and the last part consumed was the head
Was bullied at school a lot
Suffered from epilepsy, migranes, stammering, partial deafness, and ADHD
He would sometimes write backwards in letters to force the readers to hold the letter up to a mirror to read it
"I am fond of children (except boys)." He took photographs of little girls. Alice Liddell was his muse. Many people think that he was a pedophile
Took some medications for his chronic migranes and ADHD, but he was not on drugs when he wrote these books (that is a common belief).
Poetry/songs: there are many times that poetry and songs are in the book
pg. 19
pg. 28
pg. 42-45
pg. 54
pg. 63
pg.89
pg. 91-92
pg. 93-94
pg. 96
pg. 105-106
pg. 117-118
pg. 132 - The Jabberwocky
pg. 157
pg. 159-163
pg. 182 - Humpty Dumpty
pg. 190-192
pg. 198
pg. 214-217
pg. 225
pg. 228-229
pg. 231
pg. 241
Genre
Fiction
Fairytail
Victorian
Thesis Statement
Lewis Carroll's
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
and
Through the Looking-Glass
use Alice's encounters with other characters while in wonderland to show the ways in which adults limit children's curiosity and experiences.