Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

To what extent does reading children’s literature drive a child’s development as well as affect parent/child power structure? In an ever increasing technological and digital age, children are not being exposed to books and literature more often except while in schools. When children are not exposed to literature as often in the critical period, more specifically the preoperational stage, of their development, it will begin to affect their social relationships and they will try to subvert their…

mixture of social certitude and religious doubt that reflected the age. Writers from the United States and the British colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Canada were guided by the literature. Alice Adventure’s in Wonderland written by Lewis Carrol. I choose Alice Adventures’s in Wonderland because I liked the fact that she writted this novel with a purpose to let the society know what was happening in their society symbolizing it in a novel, everything was the same, the Queen, the madness…

Julian hands Ethan a ten dollar bill that has a post-it note stuck to it. Ethan pockets the bill, and when Ethan gets home, he reads the post-it. The post-it says, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Chapter VII Title.” Ethan opens up his copy of the book and finds that chapter seven is titled “A Mad Tea Party”. Ethan realizes that this was an invitation, but he did not know the time and place of the tea party. After school, the next…

“I feel that we’re standing on the threshold of a liberating and exhilarating world in which the human tribe can become truly one family and man’s consciousness can be freed from the shackles of mechanical culture and enabled to roam the cosmos” (McLuhan 1969). In a 1969 interview for Playboy Magazine, media theorist Marshall McLuhan dreamt of a world where man was capable of individual thought, yet still linked seamlessly to the rest of the world through the media. This notion of a virtual…

J. R. R. Tolkien On January 3, 1892 English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor John Ronald Reule Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa to an English family. Tolkien, the famous author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, would leave behind a great legacy for all future writers and poets; he would also lead the way for the revival of a lost genre of writing of that time. In 1895 at age three Tolkien moved to Kings Heath in Birmingham, England with his mother, Mabel…

the fantastic adventure of Coraline. The novel was published in 2002. Neil Gaiman was born on November 10th, 1960, he is a very famous British novelist; he has won a lot of awards for his jobs. Some of Neil’s influences for his writing style are: J.R.R. Tolkien specially for the Lord of the Rings books, Edgar Allan Poe, C.S. Lewis and his Chronicles of Narnia series, on of the most important influences in his work is Lewis Carroll and his famous work of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, he also…

1. La Llorona Hispanic Legend: La Llorona is an old myth many times told by Hispanic parents, to scare their children into obedience. The story is about a woman named Maria. Maria was the most beautiful woman in her village, knowing this she thought she was better than everyone else. This meant Maria refused to marry any man below her standards, until she met a wealthy, attractive Ranchero. The beginning of their marriage was great, until the Ranchero returned to his gallivanting ways and would…

the Davies family. The famous character of Peter Pan first appeared in a book titled, The Little White Bird, in 1902, two years before Peter made his way to the stage. Audiences loved the tale of a flying boy who managed to never grow up. Peter’s adventures in Neverland with the Darling children captivated audiences. Modeled after his own characteristics, Barrie’s character’s main quality of never growing up amazed viewers. James Barrie had a strong element of childlikeness. Nearly all of his…

Imagine going on a vacation to the beautiful country of Australia. Australia has many adventures to offer but all you can think about is that you get the chance to be up close and personal with a koala bear. Unfortunately when you arrive to Australia, you find out that you are no longer able to see the koala bear because it is now extinct. With the rate of extinction today, our favorite animals may be gone within the next century. It may seem like this is a long time away but because of…

photograph the landscape of West Texas. He was a recipient of the Infinity Award in Art, Intel Center of Photography in 2011. His photographic illustration of “A Camera in a Room”, was published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 1995, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland published by Dutton Children’s Books in 1998, A Book of Books published by Bulfinch Press in 2002, Camera Obscura published by Bulfinch Press in 2004, Abelardo Morell published by Phaidon Press in 2005, including his recent…