Alice In Wonderland: Extended Analysis Of Tough Alice

Improved Essays
Register to read the introduction… She is welcomed to the unknown. In Tough Alice, Alice is already experienced with the bizarre realm of Wonderland and crosses the threshold once she follows the pig into the rabbit hole. Everything begins to change yet again. As Alice is falling down the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland, which seems like forever, Alice reaches the bottom and encounters a room full of locked doors. She stumbles upon a table that displays a drink and some cake. In order to receive the key to get through the doors, she has to drink the bottle that makes her grow and eat the cake that makes her shrink which is an example of the next departure phase belly of the whale. In Tough Alice, Alice had to remind herself, “Think about something, and it appeared. Or don’t think about something, and it still might appear (page 2, Yolen).” The Jabberwock was a vicious monster that always seemed to make a personal arrival every time she visited Wonderland. This is considered when Alice reached the belly of the whale phase because everything was out of her control at the moment. In Alice of Wonderland, Alice encounters two supernatural aides as she wonders through the forest of Wonderland; the Caterpillar and the Cheshire cat. In Tough Alice, her supernatural aide encounters are the Red and White …show more content…
In Alice in Wonderland, Alice becomes overwhelmed with notion of being a range of different sizes within one day, so she begins to cry. Her crying creates a pool of tears where she meets an array of animals, including a mouse. In this pool of tears, Alice and the array of animals participate in Caucus Race, but later Alice unintentionally upsets her new companions by talking about her cat. Second, she continues with her journey and reaches the white rabbit’s house and he mistakenly thinks she’s the maid. The white rabbit says, “Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!” Alice finds an unmarked bottle that makes her extremely tall and little cakes that shrink her smaller than expected. Alice is frightened and runs from the house; this is the road of trails. In Tough Alice, as she wonders through the woods she notices old friends, the tea-party trio to be exact. The Hater to Dormouse to Hare continued to argue across the big oak table as she walked by. Alice, at least hope they would wave but realized Wonderland friends are not the type to send postcards or letters or anything of that kind. Second, she came across all her Wonderland friends at a table in the meadow, exchanging money from creature to

Related Documents

  • Great Essays

    Analysis Of Still Alice

    • 1697 Words
    • 7 Pages

    When I first read the title of the movie, I did not think that it was going to be about Alzheimer disease. “Still Alice” appears to be a positive movie title. Consequently, I thought that the movie would be based on something positive. While I watched the movie, I learned that the character is facing the hardship of a rare disease (familial Alzheimer’s disease). The biggest question if whether the character is still Alice because of the changes that she is going through with her disease.…

    • 1697 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Books, films, news and more! So many ways to get the word out there. But if it is politically unacceptable, considered indecent, or even a threat to society it needs to be prohibited. The novel Go Ask Alice by anonymous is an intense book about a fifteen-year-old girl who gets mixed up in the wrong crowd and wants so badly to fit in she does not care that her "friends" take hardcore drugs. She even started taking them herself.…

    • 1115 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Bad Eggs People in society have expectations that people to be like everyone else. People who are different are “bad eggs”. But is being a bad egg bad? In Tim Burton’s films Alice and Wonderland and Edward Scissorhands, he uses the protagonists who are different and don’t fit in at all. In society they were outcast, but they were just trying to be themselves.…

    • 491 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    As the book In the Skin of A Lion by Michael Ondaatje reaches its climax, the protagonist Patrick finds himself in many relationships. The relationships between Patrick and his step-daughter Hana, his father Hazen, and his first lover Clara help Patrick to become a more loving and cherished person. Hana, who is Patrick’s step-daughter is a large part of what helps to make Patrick more caring. She acts as a very mature character and also sort of as a moral compass.…

    • 1214 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In the novel’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll and “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” by Mark Twain the authors suggest that human nature dictates their characters tendency to force other to bend to their version of reality. The main characters applied their knowledge, values, and logic to the world around them through the their experiences they found in the new worlds they faced. In the novel, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” the main character, Alice, applies her victorian values and logic into her actions and choices she made in Wonderland. Before Alice discovers the context of Wonderlandian society, she participates in a “caucus race” with the animals which concludes with no clear winner.…

    • 1215 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Alice Monologue

    • 831 Words
    • 4 Pages

    There was once a young woman named Alice who lived with her family in a small cabin in the woods. No one ever came to visit them, as they lived far away from the nearest town and seldom made friends. However, one day their situation changed dramatically. Alice was looking out the window wistfully when she saw a cloud of dust approaching on the road far off in the distance. A rider was approaching, their steed kicking dirt everywhere as it raced directly towards her across the rough soil.…

    • 831 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The book and the cartoon movie have some similarities when the story start Alice was listening to the story that her sister is telling her and that happens on the book too. Then she sees a White Rabbit running by her. It is wearing a waistcoat and takes a watch out of it. Alice gets very curios and follows his down his rabbit-hole. Alice did drink out of the bottle that says “drink me” and she gets really small she also eats out of the cake that was under the table that says “eat me” and she get small a gain she also forget the key on the table.…

    • 447 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Stronger” by Kelly Clarkson. This song shows transcendentalism because after being down for some times, she finally tries to look at the positive things of her loneliness. When she finds it she feels happy. “Raise Your Glass” by Pink. This song shows transcendentalism because no matter who you are whether you are an outcast, you should be proud of who you are.…

    • 403 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Throughout the three novels.. Alice and Wonderland , The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , & Heart of Darkness , each of the main characters that took place in all three novels discover the “real world” by entering the unreal/surreal world. All three novels take place during the Victorian era , The early Victorian era marked the arrival of a large middle-class society for the first time in the history of the Western world. The literature of the Victorian age entered a new period after the revival of romanticism. In the novel , Alice and Wonderland , Alice is sitting with her sister outdoors when she spies a White Rabbit with a pocket watch.…

    • 427 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ever fallen deep into a place of the unknown? Ever wanted to ? The alice in wonderland poster makes me want to fall deep into this place where everything is backwards and nothing is right. The alice in wonderland poster provided by imp shows lots of characters such as the white rabbit, the evil queen of hearts, mad hatter , blue caterpillar, Cheshire cat, White queen, tweedledee and tweedledum, and of course alice herself. The white rabbit is pointing at a pocket watch he’s holding in his dominate hand.…

    • 711 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars Beddor creates his own take on the original Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Following a civil war, the Wonderlanders have reached peace. That is until a vicious threat to wonderland has returned. Queen Genevieve’s older sister Redd.…

    • 479 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Why I Love Grace

    • 665 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Grace was a typical 18 year old girl who just graduated high school and moved off to college far away from her family, which wasn’t necessarily a bad thing since she has an identical twin named Alice. Alice has never been fond of Grace because Grace was always everyone’s favorite. Throughout their childhood, Alice would get left out of all of the family events and friend activities. All the boys that Alice liked, liked Grace. All of Alice’s friends just used her to get to Grace.…

    • 665 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    By challenging the main idea “is a way of learning not to disregard those features of the text that attract our attention, but are not principal ideas” (Gallop 8.) Re-examining the text content, I found plenty of inappropriate imagery, from the rabbit hole itself to the phallic look alike caterpillar. Lock and keys were seen as symbolic of coitus, and the different type of drugs seen in the film used by the different characters. So what is the real message behind Alice journey to wonderland? Many others viewed Alice’s journey as being less about sex and more about a girl’s progress through childhood and puberty into adulthood.…

    • 802 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    There has been great debate over the difference between the surrealist and the avant-garde, and whether or not they are simply different branches of the same movement, that surrealism is just a romanticised extension of the avant-garde. André Breton, the movement’s considered leader, regarded surrealism as a belief in superior forms of reality in his 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, and irrespective of more contemporary arguments over the exact definition or difference, was above all explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was a revolutionary movement. It is challenging to define the avant-garde, due to its heavy reliance on the self and the psychological nature of man, as opposed to physical aesthetics or a standard chain of events. Linda Williams’…

    • 2182 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Case Study Still Alice

    • 1514 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Demographic Information For this assignment I watched Still Alice (Glatzer, 2015). This movies main character is Alice who is a linguistic professor at Columbia University. At the begging of the move she is celebrating her 50th birthday. She is married to John and has three adult children Anna, Tom, and Lydia. After having some issues with her memory Alice decides to see a neurologist who tests her cognitive abilities and does scans of her brain.…

    • 1514 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays