Carroll University

“Curiouser and curiouser!” is the exclamation Alice cries out as she witnesses the absurdities of Wonderland, a magical and frightening, dream world (Carroll 8). It is a statement all readers can certainly agree with as Alice makes her way through a plethora of different, but equally disturbing settings. Her journey begins simply enough at the bank of a river with her sister, when out of the blue, a white, clothed, talking* rabbit hops past her. Alice hastily follows it right into an…

Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by Lewis Carroll which tells the story of Alice, a girl who goes on an adventure in Wonderland in a dream. The novel, usually shortened to Alice in Wonderland, falls into the fantasy genre. The novel main setting is in the fantasy world, where Alice finds herself inside a rabbit hole and Wonderland. The setting in the beginning and the ending of the story, however, is in the river bank. Carroll divided the book into twelve chapters, each taking…

In McManus’ illustrations this scene is illustrated in a very different way. The illustrator uses colors such as red and green to make the scene pop out at the reader more than the illustrations in the Norton Edition, which are all black and white. Alice, who does not appear to be much larger than the other animals, is trying to hold onto the goose. A parrot is seen flying away, a frog is running away, and another goose has been knocked over by Alice who we can assume is trying to help the…

created in her head. In the beginning of Alice’s journey, she is a girl who is structured and poise. When Alice asks the Duchess “‘please would you tell me’…‘why your cat grins like that!’” (Carroll 49) she asks timidly “for she was not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first” (Carroll 49). This symbolizes the beginning of Alice’s metamorphosis into a confident being. Alice is timid and worries about what the creatures around her will think. Blake agrees that Alice tries…

There is a world beyond ours. A world that we would consider a fantasy. A world where flowers sing and imagination is a power. The inhabitants of this world face difficulties and challenges. Alyss Heart faces many trials and is tested many times. She starts out as a bratty little girl and over time she turns into a beautiful lady and queen of Wonderland. In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as an immature, clever, and a shrewd little girl and future queen of Wonderland. “...…

“Go Ask Alice” The book I chose was “Go Ask Alice” by anonymous. It was published in March of 1971. There has been some controversy over the genera of the book, but it was classified as teen fiction, and has 215 pages. “Go Ask Alice” is about a teen girl whose name remains unknown throughout the book that gets mixed into the wrong group, and ends up addicted to drugs. She keeps a diary where she tells about all of her experiences, thoughts, and feeling, but the diary becomes her safe place,…

"I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have." Alice Walker is one author that isn't afraid to be blunt with the readers, an author that doesn't sugar coat things that happened or things that can still happen even in today's world. Most people find her novel The Color Purple quiet awkward and disturbing. Alice Walker wasn't always good at writing or anything along those lines, until one of her many brothers had shot her in the eye with a BB gun causing her to go blind in that eye.…

George Campbell is a rhetorician born on Christmas day in 1719 in Scotland. Campbell would attend Marischal College where he would gain proficiency in metaphysics, pneumanology, ethics, physics, then called natural philosophy, and logic. He would graduate in the year 1738 and become an apprentice at law. While he was learning law he also picked up an interest in theology attending lectures at Edenburgh. After completing the apprenticeship Campbell decided to dive into the world of the minister.…

Carroll’s dream text and to the reader’s sense of the squarely down-to-earth ‘dream child’ in her striped stockings and long brushed hair, as well as her other various fabulous and incongruous interlocutors in wonderland and beyond the mirror.” (Carroll Haughton lxxix) Carroll’s opening sentence of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland emphasizes how these (Tenniel’s) illustrations act as the nucleus of the book: Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of…

There are four characters in the story. Each of these characters represents a part of us. :- Hem and Haw – Little people Sniff and Scurry – mice Sniff: Good and always sniffs out changes early before others are aware of it. Scurry: search what is needed and takes actions immediately. Hem: tries to deny and resists change as he fears it will lead to something worse. Haw: Always learns to adapt in time when he sees change can lead to something better. All four characters in the story search for…