Alyss 'In The Looking Glass Wars'

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Alyss In Wonderland
In The Looking Glass Wars Beddor used detail, to revealed a purpose

In the beginning of the novel Alyss is characterized as gifted,ravishing,and pure.
Alyss is gifted because she has the strongest imagination in wonderland “Imagination was an important part of life in wonderland” so that reminded Queen Genevieve about Redd because she also had the strongest imagination when she was about Alyss’s age (Beddor 13).Alyss is ravishing because the wonderlanders could recognize Alyss by her hair,the way she dresses,and her eyes “a shopkeeper spotted alyss and with respectful expressions of good wishes for her health dropped to his knees and bowed” (Beddor 38).Alyss is pure because even though she has the strongest imagination for a 7 year old she doesn’t use her powers for bad “she might remind him of Redd in
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Everybody made fun of Alyss when she talks about her fantasy land, everyday Alyss gets more and more angry then one day she changes, “No more.Erase it all. I will no longer be Odd Alice. Odd Alice must die” (Beddor 149).Mrs.Liddell asked Alice to wear her dress and since Alice wanted to change the next morning “She emerged from her room, then next morning-a room perfectly clean, no confetti on the floor, no sign of the violence done to it hours earlier-The Liddells were at breakfast in the dining room.They immediately noticed a change in Alyss without being able to pinpoint what it was. Edith and Lorina fell still, mid chew,their open mouths revealing a mash of scrambled egg.Dean Liddell paused in the midst of buttering his scone, and Mrs.Liddell continued pouring tea into her cup even after it spilled over onto the saucer.” “You're wearing the dress.” Mrs.Liddell said (Beddor

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