Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

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The most renowned and classic of the genre of literary nonsense novel, beloved by avid readers over the globe more than a century, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” was written by eminent English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll during the Victorian era. The inspiration for this fantasy fiction was a real little girl named Alice, the protagonist of the novel and Carroll invents a story related to this little girl which the title of this story ultimately immortalized as “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.” When “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” was first published in 1865, it achieved enthusiastically and remained a classic society of Victorian’s fiction and delighting readers alike with its whimsical world …show more content…
I never expected the events and the outcome of the story as it was unpredictable. The bizarre settings of the story and the peculiar characters in Wonderland burst out with each turn of the page, begin with a wondrous rabbit hole and the ending with an explosion of a pack of anthropomorphic cards. In spite of the fact that the story is slightly abridged yet vividly emerged into my mind through surreal illustrations, which featuring the John Tenniel Illustrations. The story also contains many riddles, especially "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" which made reader even more interesting and curious. I loved the main character, Alice. Her courageous inspired me. For instance, Alice comes into numerous new circumstance in which adaptability and courageous is extremely required for success. She can barely show enough her composure to keep herself dispassionate and self-possessed when the battle against the Queen. My favorite part was Chapter Twelve when Alice knocks over the Queen’s army of cards by growing herself into a bigger size, as this part is an intense climax of the story for me that the Queen should learn a lesson from her bad temper. Nevertheless, I also disliked a character, the Caterpillar was representing drug use with magic mushrooms and hookah in Chapter Five. This behavior displayed by the Caterpillar can mislead readers attempt to imitate. The book’s language is very complex and nonsense which will leave some children confused. Yet, it’s still a classic well worth as a read-aloud. Carroll intricately weaves using these characters in the story in order to teach lessons to readers specifically children about growing up in an entertaining way. Each character conveys proprietary and constrictive morals to the

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