Lewis Carroll

The first theme that impressed me in this book was the comparison of everyday math and evolution. This idea impressed me because the topics of math and evolution are usually never discussed together. After reading about this topic, where Carroll placed math and evolution together into one theme, I do agree with him on this idea. He suggests that chance is involved in evolution over time. I like this interpretation because it makes sense that it is almost up to chance when a certain heritable…

In both stories of Alice in Wonderland (1865) (2010) by Lewis Carroll and Tim Burton, Alice relies on imaginary characters as archetypes guides and helpmates to help better herself throughout her adventure in Wonderland. From beginning to end, Alice Kingsley fought her own battles, whether they were against herself, or against an external force. If it weren’t for the imaginative characters created by Carroll, found throughout Alice’s adventure, or the adventure itself, she would have been unable…

In the four text types Basketball Diaries (Movie) The Otherside by Macklemore (Song) Looking For Alaska by John Green (Book) and Skins S2E7 - Effy (TV Series) the idea that drugs and alcohol can influence your decisions and have negative outcomes is clearly shown but each their own way. In the movie Basketball Diaries the main character Jim Carol revolves his life around basketball and he dreams of being a famous sports star one day or at least that was the plan, but with his best friend, Bobby…

Being involved in the community will change ones life. It was my senior year in high school until I realized what happens when one gets involved in their community. Being involved in the Miracle League not only helped the kids, it helped me as a person. I still remember the first time I went to the Miracle League. It was a tradition of my baseball team to go to the Miracle League once a year. I was nervous, and did not know what to expect. It was a steaming hot…

siblings fighting, drive them all around and it was something new. It’s the start to the end of my schooling. It was going to be something different than living in the small city of De Pere for 18 years. Now for the next six years, I was going to Carroll University and living in Waukesha. To me that was so crazy to think about. Six more years of school was not at all what I wanted to do, but I knew that I wanted to become a physical therapist and that is how long I needed to go for. I was ready…

occasionally still aired on cable TV, and many episodes are available to view for free on YouTube. The situations the characters found themselves in are still relevant today, over 40 years later. The main character of the show is Archie Bunker (played by Carroll O 'Connor). Archie is a white man in his 50s who is struggling to accept the changes taking place in the world around him. He is portrayed as a racist and bigoted man. While that may be true some of the time, he is just reacting to…

Lewis provides similar structures in Narnia. In the same sense that the ordinary rabbit hole turns out to be an extraordinary portal in Alice in Wonderland, the plain wardrobe turns out to be a doorway into the Narnia. The fantastical element of the wardrobe…

Mad people make more sense than sane people, according to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll tells a story about a little girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. “Well, I’d hardly finished the first verse, when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, ‘He’s murdering the time! off with his head!’” said the Mad Hatter. The Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the Dormouse are all mad in the imaginary world in which…

C.S. Lewis: “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” (“C.S.Lewis.” BrainyQuote.com. Xplore Inc, 2016. 26 February 2016. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/c_s_lewis.html). This is said by C.S. Lewis who dared to write about subjects writers at the time few dared to write about. Being raised in a Christian…

humans have settled into a single life without first seeing what else there is to do, and the pain of not knowing what the world has to offer can cause dissatisfaction among people from doing the same thing over and over again. Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis, shows some of the effects that doubting one’s own life may lead to. Babbitt was dissatisfied with his current life, but after going out and doing…