What Is The Purpose Of Alice In Wonderland

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Cameron Jace in the book, Insanity (Mad in Wonderland), retells Alice in Wonderland in captivating way. Jace allures his audience by keeping Alice’s past a mystery and only revealing her past through her dreams once her mother and sisters visits her at the Radcliffe Lunatic Asylum. Jace’s purpose is to entertain his audience by bringing in new a Alice to life. Jace writes in a nefarious tone for Alice in Wonderland fans.
Insanity is a marvelous book about a girl from an Asylum trying to figure what is reality and imagery, with a serial killer 's help name Pillar the Killer she decides to follow her heart, and try to save the world, even though it seems a little mad. “Oh. You haven’t seen nonsense yet,” the pillar said. “...I choked one of your guards with my hookah hose and
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Pillar had killed people in the most heartless and confusing way, for instance, he convinced a man to kill himself by jumping off the Tom Tower. It makes one wonder how could he have possibly convince a man to to jump off a building and why did he convince in the first. He also killed a man with laughing gas, he forced a laughing gas mask onto his face and made him laugh til his insides bled. In Alice in Wonderland he is just a caterpillar that is rude to Alice, in insanity he is a sociopath that is trying to help Alice save a little girl that the Chesire Cat has captured. “Who in the world am?(30)” Alice asks herself this question throughout the book when either something in her about her past is revealed, or when her life becomes increasingly abstract. When her mother and two sisters visits her, she does not remember her past life outside of the Asylum or her family. She asks her mother why she was in the asylum, but she really is trying to figure out her life before the asylum and who she really is or at least was. When her bitter sister

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