Boogie Wonderland

“A Wonder book” Nathan Hawthorn’s children story A Wonder Book is based on the story of Pandora’s box, but it also seems like it is similar to classic bible story of Adam and Eve. This book treats naughtiness in a good and bad way, a perfect mixture of both. Primrose, one of many siblings, is the self proclaimed “naughty one”. She is a gossiper and her older cousin wants to tell each child a story about someone who is just as naughty as Primrose. Cousin Eustace beings the tale by stating “.…

through direct characterization, anthropomorphism, and real world connections, Lewis Carroll utilizes an exceptional understanding of the development of Alice’s identity in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Direct characterization helps to create a better understanding of symbols in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Cheshire cat, establishes the reoccurring dilemma that Alice has. Throughout the book, he appears sporadically asking Alice about who she is, making her rethink and discuss her…

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carroll in the year of 1865. The heroine of his story is a six-year-old girl named Alice Liddel. Alice enters the world of Wonderland after falling down a rabbit-hole on a sleepy afternoon. Subsequently, Alice changes during the course of the book in two significant ways: physically and psychologically. These changes were introduced in the beginning of her adventures and play substantial roles throughout the story. The first changes…

Go Ask Alice was written in 1971 by Beatrice Sparks. Sparks was born on January 15, 1917 and died on May 25, 2012.She was an American therapist and Mormon youth counselor who was known for writing books that were from the real diaries from her patience and from the girls she counseled. It Happened to Nancy(1994), (where a fourteen-year-old girl, was raped and received AIDS from a college boy) and Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager, are just a few of Sparks other famous…

Lily Andersen Mrs. Hellem English-4 10 May 2016 Curiouser and curiouser Whoever said fairytales are for everyone was right. Alice’s Wonderland is a dream come true, filled with talking flowers, clothes-wearing animals and colorful characters. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has long been a fanciful escape for young children and adults everywhere with the intent of exercising their imaginations and preserving their youth. But is this truly what Lewis Carroll wanted his novel to accomplish?…

The simplicity of early childhood can be rather appealing to adults who can remember their joys of running and playing. There can be great pleasure in watching young children run around and explore carefree, where the burdens of the world are not weighing on their shoulders. Lewis Carroll often enjoyed spending time with the Liddell children whom he lived next to at Christ Church University. Alice Liddell’s actions and outlook inspired Carroll to write his series of Alice and her adventures.…

Carroll, spent his childhood fascinating his siblings. As he matured, he became an academic and a man of the Church. As an adult, he still spent time with children because he found comfort in their understanding. By looking at Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, one can see that Lewis Carroll included the themes of discovering one’s true identity and defining blurred lines between fantasy and reality because he was an individual whose personality allowed him to identify with the wit and wonder…

Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll was published in 1865. But, even though it was published 151 years ago it is still extremely prevalent in todays society. This essay will explore how Alice’s time in Wonderland ultimately hurt her. Because she loses her child-like innocence, and more importantly herself. Throughout the course of Alice’s adventures she goes through numerous and different physical changes, the first change comes in chapter one Down The Rabbit Hole, Alice finds a…

that age limits imagination, but that is not the true. No one can blame themselves for wanting that sense of creativity to live within for as long as possible, which is exactly how Alice felt throughout her journey. In The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll uses references to his own past, Alice’s change in size, and imagery to show that people can keep elements of childhood, like imagination, forever. It is well known and quite obvious that childhood only lasts for a short amount…

Maleficent is a 2014 American adventure fantasy film directed by Robert Stromberg from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton and starring Angelina Jolie, Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, and Lesley Manville. Loosely based on Charles Perrault's original fairy tale and inspired by Walt Disney's 1959 animated film, Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent portrays the story from the perspective of the eponymous antagonist, depicting her conflicted relationship with the princess…