Why Is Alice Bored With Her Sister's Book

From the moment she sees the White Rabbit taking his watch from his waistcoat pocket, Alice tries to understand the logic of Wonderland. None of the rules that she has been taught seem to apply in Wonderland. The characters in Wonderland have no sense of manners and respond to her questions with answers that make no sense. For example, the Mad Hatter asks the questions, “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” (Alice 51). Alice assumes he is asking a riddle and she begins to try to answer it, thinking the Hatter would not ask a riddle without knowing the answer. When Alice is unable to figure out the riddle, the Hatter explains that there is no answer. He does not explain why he asked the riddle, he simply says, “I haven’t the slightest idea” (Alice 53). In which Alice replies, “I think you might do something better with the time, than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers” (Alice 53). The Hatter then responds with a lecture on Time, which he depicts as a person. Time being depicted as a person makes no logical sense to Alice. In the end, Alice rebels during the trial scene when the King said “Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court” (Alice 88). Alice objects to the absurd nature of the trial saying, “Who cares for you? You’re nothing but a pack of cards!” (Alice 91). This final scene is the end of her dream, and she wakes up with her head in her sister’s lap.

Alice can be very childish, but throughout the story, she encounters many animals with human qualities that make her change her perspective of the world she lives in. The main obstacle in Alice's life is growing up. As she grows up, she looks at situations in a very distinctive way, such as the moment when alice meets the March Hare, The Mad Hatter, and the Dormouse. By the time the story is over, Alice is already a grown up because of all the experiences she confronted such as, the mad tea party, the encounter with the caterpillar smoking a hookah pipe, also Alice's encounter with the Red Queen during the croquet game and the trial.

After reading chapter one of the book I learned that Ann Moody provided the readers with great information pertaining her life at the age of four. In chapter one, Anne considerably supplied the readers with the time, setting, and

At the start of her journey, Alice’s blunt and direct form of speech drives the animals away in either offence or wariness. In a state of excitement, Alice inflicts this upon herself while exclaiming, ‘“Dinah’s our cat. Why, she’ll eat a little bird as soon as [she] looks at it!’” (Carol 38). Because of Alice’s little knowledge in social norms, she immediately frightens the party of birds as she talks about her cat. While she is perplexed at the animal’s offence in her words, she is contingent on their guidance in navigating the foreign wonderland. After several failed interactions, Alice develops the inclination of social awareness in her speech as she begins to stop herself when talking with the mock turtle quipping, “‘and perhaps you were never introduced to a lobster-’ (Alice began to say, “I once tasted-” but checked herself hastily)” (Carol 94). Alice’s growth in social awareness stopped her from saying anything offensive, giving her the benefit of stable, though not always helpful, dependency on the animal’s

The husband notices that something is amiss with Alice when she doesn’t seem to keep track of conversations in a party they were invited and forgets the names of the people she had been earlier introduced to. When she was preparing for the lecture she took forty five minutes preparing and when she gets into the class she has no idea about what she had prepared.

How the problem occurs in the book is, when Alice goes to the Florida beach cottage where she always spends her birthday week. She notices things changed, half of the usual vacationers are not coming this year. Alice thinks of these people as family, and now with the new renters, she does not know what to think. Then Alice beginnings to feel more troubled as Kate someone she sees as an aunt shows up with a boyfriend and his daughter. Alice feels upset and uneasy about all the new changes and finds nothing to be perfect like she imagined at all. The problem occurs when things don’t go as Alice planned.

In the novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the main character, Alice, undergoes quite a change. During the time the novel was published, parts of the world were in the victorian era. The Queen at the time was Queen Victoria, in which the era was named after. During this era, knowledge, class and reason were greatly valued, and stressed. This time period ended in the year of Queen Victoria’s death. Throughout the novel, there are many ways that show how Alice begins to understand the world in adult terms, matures, and grows.

She couldn't remember where's the washroom in her own house. She ran up and down the stairs but she just didn't know where it was. She laid down on the floor and started crying. How Can I Be Lost In My Own House? ( Genova, Pg 210-211) This part of the book explains how Alice is struggling with herself to find simple things around her. In this situation, she was in her own house. It also explains how the people around her might be struggling to see her suffering because of her disease. This literary element was effectively used because it could help the reader understand the book in a better way. Another literary element that was extremely helpful with developing the theme was the setting of the story. This story takes place both in Alice's house and her work which is Harvard University. This passage of the book tells the reader how Alice was lost at her work. Alice had to go work. She looked at the clock it was 6:30. She left the house. She knew she was getting closer to her work. She saw familiar buildings but she didn't wich one is her work. She was standing still. She felt like her memory is completely

Alice Kingsleigh from the 2010 movie adaption of the classic Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll is an Explorer archetype due to the fact that she desires a more fulfilling life where she can be who she wants to be without the restrictive confines of the outer world. Her flaws might be centered on indecision and a sense of dissociation, resulting in the impulse to flee from her “dragons.” In the beginning of the movie, Alice Kingsleigh is shown attending to the overtly formal expectations of London society in her era. Those expectations tire her and leave her feeling out of place; as an Explorer, this is an example of her fear of conformity (Document D), inevitably challenging her on her quest for her true self.

Alice following the rabbit down the hole shows the curiosity she, like most other children, has. She follows the rabbit throughout Wonderland, almost as if it’s a guide. The rabbit can also be seen as an older figure in Alice’s life that sparks the curiosity into adulthood for her. Alice sees something intriguing in that person and their being older that gets her curious as to what it might be, just as a talking rabbit might spring her interest. She looks up to them and wants to have the qualities they do. Alice follows the rabbit as she would this person to quench her curiosity and see exactly what is going on in this part of life that Alice is so far naive to.

This passage is one of the most memorable passages in Alicebecause it so resembles the typical conversation that young girls often have with their dolls at imaginary tea parties. Imitating what their own mothers say to them over and over again – “Don’t speak unless you’re spoken to,” “Don’t shift in your seat while your elders are talking to you,” “You must be a proper young lady” – these young girls try to come to terms with all of the social restrictions that are placed upon them and to

Susan begins her TED talk with a backstory about her first experience at summer camp when she was just nine years old. While sharing how she packed her suitcase full of books, and all the crazy expectations she had for what camp was going to be like, she immediately grabs the interest and attention of the audience through her humor and wit. Summer camp, or something similar, is an experience that most people are familiar with and can relate to. Therefore, Susan has just shared a common experience with her audience and in the process, became more engaging to them. Susan describes how she went along with the enthusiastic and cheerful tone of the camp while waiting expectantly for the opportunity to read a book. However, the many people at camp who saw her reading, thought of it as going against the outgoing spirit of the camp, and so she reluctantly put her books away for the rest of the summer.

Alice has an overbearing mother who is very critical of her. This has obviously put a strain on their relationship. Though much of the dynamics did not play out on screen it was implied that a rocky relationship exists between Alice and her mother whereas the opposite was true between her and her father. Alice has a lot of internalized frustration and anguish over her relationship with her parents and her family, especially Michael. She drinks to suppress her true feelings and control her anxiety as much as possible. The family as a whole is really struggling with boundaries and this is leading to triangulation. These are normal patterns of a dysfunctional family. No one in the Green family had a clear identity (not even Amy, the nanny; her role should have been clearly defined). These are signs of diffused boundaries and enmeshment. Each member was stuck in the same position and there was no room for individual growth and freedom until they went to treatment.

Despite this it is important to remember that societal norms change throughout the decades and what may seem inappropriate now may have once been a common occurrence. Indeed the childrens story is filled with threats of violence, drugs, alcohol, stranger danger, and cases where Alice eats and drinks unknown foods or drinks. Despite all the inappropriate aspects of Alice in Wonderland, it is more than filled with appropriate aspects such as imagination, educational value, teaching children the importance of trust and relationships and being themselves. Alice made many friends along the way and learnt important life lessons during her adventure. It is important for children to read and learn what Alice in Wonderland has to teach. Children are sheltered from reality and kept in their own little world filled with nothing but comfort and happiness, and then somewhere between childhood and adulthood, they’re thrown into reality. A reality they have been told is unsafe and full of cruelty and then the children are expected to be comfortable and know their way around. The best literature for a child is that which engages a child's mind while at the same time in a way that they would understand. Children are not born capable of understanding the pain, fear and loss that is a part of the real world, and its essential for them to be taught how to prepare for life. Less time needs to be spent on teaching children to fear the dark, monsters and other such things, and instead more time needs to be spent on teaching children to fear realistic things such as bankruptcy, mean individuals and the lack of acceptance in society. In addition to teaching them what to fear and expect, children must also be taught that it is all going to be okay. It is better to fill a child's mind with a

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll endures as one of the most iconic children 's books of all time. It remains one of the most ambiguous texts to decipher as Alice 's adventures in Wonderland have created endless critical debate as to whether we can deduce any true literary meaning, or moral implication from her journey down the rabbit hole. Alice 's station as a seven year old Victorian child creates an interesting construct within the novel as she attempts to navigate this magical parallel plain, yet retain her Victorian sensibilities and learn from experience as she encounters new creatures and life lessons. Therefore, this essay will focus on the debate as to whether Alice is the imaginatively playful child envisaged by the Romantics, or a Victorian child whose imagination has been stunted by her education and upbringing.