Cats are crazy, silly creatures that tend to engage in odd behaviors such as going from being extremely grumpy one second to being unbearingly affectionate the next. They also like to eerily watch us while we pee in the bathroom and knock over things while looking straight into our eyes without a hint of guilt. Cats do the most random things that either make cat haters roll their eyes in frustration or make cat-lovers love them even more. However, there is one cat mystery that baffles even the…
“Schema Disruption and Identity in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in the Wonderland” argues that our schemas both affect and are affected by the texts we read. Our schemas help us to analyze and make sense out of literature, and at the same time our schema can be called into question, completely disrupted, or, on a different note, be supported by the text. The article applies this concept to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by making the case that without our schemas of the real world,…
The book that I have chosen is called Jenius The Amazing guinea Pig by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Brain Floca. This book is a chapter book with seven chapters, but even though it is a chapter book it has pictures along with it. This book is a very funny book about a little girl and her guinea pig. This little girl named Judy had two guinea pigs and one day they had one little baby. She had told her class she could train a guinea pig and she was made fun of so she thought this was the…
Throughout the three novels.. Alice and Wonderland , The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , & Heart of Darkness , each of the main characters that took place in all three novels discover the “real world” by entering the unreal/surreal world. All three novels take place during the Victorian era , The early Victorian era marked the arrival of a large middle-class society for the first time in the history of the Western world. The literature of the Victorian age entered a new period after the…
In Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington, Alice Bliss is a teenage girl who goes through the regular day struggles in the life of a teenage girl. But once the war comes along, her father, Matt Bliss, decides that it is his duty to go into the war and serve the country. This may seem like a good thing to do in his perspective but for his family, it was one of the worst things that could have happened to them. Alice has a strong connection with her father so to have him leave in this time to something…
Alice in wonderland is a very well known story redone in many different ways. Examples of three different versions could be, the original by disney, a more modern remake by director, tim burton and lastly a production held by Grant Park High School of the play. Aspects compared between the three include story plot, Alice’s character and the reason why she is in wonderland and how she gets out. Although some revisions might share the same features, there are differences between them. Through the…
Have you ever read a book and then thought: "What does this even mean?" Well, the book, Alice' Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, brings up the same question. Did Carroll have a point he was trying to make, or did he write his story for pure entertainment? I believe that he wrote it for entertainment purposes. Though no one but Carroll actually knows the answer to this question. The reasons supporting my thesis are: the original story was told for the amusement of three little girls,…
Wonderland is rules by nonsense creators leaving Alice’s normal behavior becomes inconsistent principals. Cheshire cat is scared by no one , maintaining his calm and grinning outside status. Being “mad” is determined by the behavior of others comparison to yourself. Being there is so many different versions of Alice Adventures in Wonderland. Its harder to understand the real one from the different versions. Going…
Go ask Alice is book written in diary form. The author is unknown. The main character is Alice, which is the one who write the diary. Throughout the diary, Alice talks about the challenges with she faces and how she copes with them. Alice’s dad, who is a college professor, takes an offer to teach at a different college. Alice and her family have to move to a new town at the beginning of the next year. Alice has problems fitting in at her new school, but soon makes a new friend, Beth. Alice…
then you realize that dream is actually reality. This is the case for Alice in Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alice falls into a large-rabbit hole and finds herself in a whole other world. The classic novel has won many awards and has been the inspiration to many movies, plays and comic books. Lewis Carroll’s classic novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, portrays direct correlations between the author’s life and the Victorian era. Lewis Carroll was born January 27,…