There is a world beyond ours. A world that we would consider a fantasy. A world where flowers sing and imagination is a power. The inhabitants of this world face difficulties and challenges. Alyss Heart faces many trials and is tested many times. She starts out as a bratty little girl and over time she turns into a beautiful lady and queen of Wonderland.
In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as an immature, clever, and a shrewd little girl and future queen of Wonderland. “... it wasn’t cake at all; it had turned into a handful of gwormmies. ‘Got you!’ Alyss shouted…” (Beddor 24) Alyss is showing her immaturity by playing a prank on her tutor when he did nothing to her. “She’d written A-L-I-C-E ninety-nine times. Miss Prikett …show more content…
As the novel goes on she matures and becomes selfless.“But this was not the case with eleven year old Alyss Heart, who had waited with impatience for the Reverend Charles Dodgson to complete the book describing her life in Wonderland.” (Beddor 148) Dodgson wrote a book about Alyss’s life in Wonderland and she is very excited to read it. Alyss is waiting with impatience as she did in Wonderland. “Again, she felt the tug of a long-buried affection for one who… She would not allow herself to think of him. She had to be realistic. The marriage would please her mother. She would do it for her mother, for her family’s sake. ‘I accept, Leopold.’” (Beddor 171) Alyss does not have any affection for Leopold but still accepts the proposal. She is only accepting because she knows it will be good for her family. Alyss is willing to make sacrifices for the good of others. She would rather make others happy instead of making herself happy. “‘You’re wearing the dress,’Mrs. Liddell said. The dress she had purchased months before, but which Alyss had always refused to wear because she feared it would make her appear common.” (Beddor 151) When Alyss puts on the dress she is conforming to society, she becomes
In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as an immature, clever, and a shrewd little girl and future queen of Wonderland. “... it wasn’t cake at all; it had turned into a handful of gwormmies. ‘Got you!’ Alyss shouted…” (Beddor 24) Alyss is showing her immaturity by playing a prank on her tutor when he did nothing to her. “She’d written A-L-I-C-E ninety-nine times. Miss Prikett …show more content…
As the novel goes on she matures and becomes selfless.“But this was not the case with eleven year old Alyss Heart, who had waited with impatience for the Reverend Charles Dodgson to complete the book describing her life in Wonderland.” (Beddor 148) Dodgson wrote a book about Alyss’s life in Wonderland and she is very excited to read it. Alyss is waiting with impatience as she did in Wonderland. “Again, she felt the tug of a long-buried affection for one who… She would not allow herself to think of him. She had to be realistic. The marriage would please her mother. She would do it for her mother, for her family’s sake. ‘I accept, Leopold.’” (Beddor 171) Alyss does not have any affection for Leopold but still accepts the proposal. She is only accepting because she knows it will be good for her family. Alyss is willing to make sacrifices for the good of others. She would rather make others happy instead of making herself happy. “‘You’re wearing the dress,’Mrs. Liddell said. The dress she had purchased months before, but which Alyss had always refused to wear because she feared it would make her appear common.” (Beddor 151) When Alyss puts on the dress she is conforming to society, she becomes