The Looking Glass Wars Analysis

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. Throughout the book there are many themes. But one stood out. Facing reality is hard to do, especially in the cases of Alyss, Dodge, and Genevieve.

BOOM! Starting from the battle inside the palace, with dodge realizing what had just happened. “‘Be quiet or they’ll get you too. Stay here and don’t move.’” Dodge is realizing that there are bad people here to kill everyone so he makes Alyss aware. Nothing was good until, he thought a thought that was and incorrect thought. “Dodge saw what was about to happen. ‘Watch this,’ he said to Alyss, proud of his father’s skills and bravery...The Cat picked up Sir Justice and swiped him with a claw. ‘Noooo!’ Before Alyss could stop him, Dodge bolted out from the table,...” Dodge’s dad was just killed, so think about that and how he would have to face it.

Sometimes things must be sacrificed for other things to be. Such as take time to clean a room for allowance. Sometimes we know that we will have to make sacrifices in the future like …show more content…
Once in London and once in her destroyed queendom. Once as a kid and once as an adult. “Can’t be Odd Alice...No more. Erase it all. I will no longer be Odd Alice. Odd Alice must die. Yes, it was a solution: Give up her so-called ridiculous, fantastical delusions…” See? Alyss is realizing that in the human world her “fantasies” are not what they are in wonderland. Eventually, Alyss realizes that she and Dodge are not the only ones that have lost loved ones. “...-the loss of a certain Wonderlander whom he hadn’t yet had a chance to mourn.” Hatter had lost someone important making alice realize other Wonderlanders had deaths of their own to