Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Analytical Essay on “The Familiar” The Familiar is a fantasy short story written by Andre Norton. It talks about a girl living in a town who owns a toy cat. Later in the story, she realizes that the toy cat is a real cat with magical abilities whose mission is to educate her about the wyse powers that she got. Noran utilizes various techniques to help the reader understand the magic and the cat’s intention about educating Jesca. First person narrator, inner monolog and a strong relationship…

Defamiliarization In Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” Jabberwocky (or The Jabberwocky) is a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in the novel Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) which he published in 1871 (Niki Pollock, 2000). It is a prime example of how language can be used as tool for defamiliarization as he does with his use of nonsense words and imagery. Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem. That is no accident. It did not get mangled in the printer, it was not jumbled up…

“Are you thinking what I am thinking?” “Yes. If we put little wheels on the bottoms of our shoes, we could just roll around everywhere...” The characters Helena and Valentine from the film MirrorMask have this dialogue and it sums up the randomness of surrealism. It emphasizes how two completely arbitrary unrelated objects can be fused together in the creative world of surrealism where there essentially are no boundaries. This essay will discuss that in terms of the film MirrorMask, and Un…

Fairest Snow White, a vision of raven hair, fair skin and a gentle disposition. She is beautiful and kind, in the original story. Connolly’s version of Snow White is somewhat disgusting, but it brings great humor to the tale. The dwarfs had tried to kill Snow White, unsuccessfully, but their tale is told with a sarcastic humor. “[W]e feed her an apple: chomp-chomp, snooze- snooze, weep-weep, ‘poor Snow White, we-will-miss-her-so-but-life-goes-on” (Connolly 127). The dwarfs do not love…

In “Alice in Wonderland” of 1951, Alice is transported to a place called Wonderland. In that time, she eats food, and meets animals. She also tries to wake herself up at the end of the movie. In my opinion, Wonderland is just a dream. Again, she tries to wake herself up. Second, all the animals in the movie could’ve not existed in real life or fantasy. Third, she somehow gets into Wonderland so quickly, without knowing how she got there in the first place. At the end of the film, she was trying…

after a near fatal accident rendered her body useless; Alice’s brain has been transplanted into the body of another young girl. In the time following, Alice struggles to come to terms with who she is, now that her internal identity feels completely misaligned with how society sees her. This theme of conflicting facets of identity is paramount in “Mirror Image”, and is what my visual representation is focused on. My visual representation of Alice’s struggles with identity is an abstracted…

It is in this garden that Alice saves multiple men from the Queen of Hearts’ wrath and is invited for a game of croquet with an odd twist. The balls are hedgehogs and the mallets, flamingos. The Queen quickly orders the execution of many players while Alice finds the Cheshire cat again. He initiates a conversation, but is quickly interrupted by the King of Hearts, who is ultimately ignored by the cat. The King is angered and orders the cat’s execution but no one knows how to go about the…

"Face" is one of the best story by alice munro. What makes it different from others is In “Face” Alice Munro makes one of her best detours into the past to contemplate on the present. She focuses on the intricate effects that a childhood event can have on adult life. This story is very touchy though. 1) The story begins with a father’s dramatic rejection of his newly born son because of a birthmark covering the right side of the baby’s face. The boy grows up facing the extreme polarity of his…

Introduction Alice in Quantumland is an allegory of quantum physics by Robert Gilmore. In this book Robert sends Alice to Quantumland, a whole new Wonderland, smaller than an atom, where each attraction demonstrates a different aspect. The book is about quantum physics and makes a story about it, making it more understandable. Key Idea 1 Bosons are particles that follow Bose-Einsteins statistics. It makes up one of the two classes of particles, the other is fermions. Fermions are electrons,…

150 years have passed since the release of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, yet the book stays as one of the best Children’s classics of all time. Unlike many books of the same genre, it appeals to both adults and children, for its creative story, unique characters and precious lessons about life. Let us find out more about the story of the 7-year-old Alice, and how her adventures stay in countless of readers’ hearts. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland can be a fascinating read to any reader of…