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The example used by Abbas and Rahman that stands out the most here is Carroll’s use of homonymy and homophony. They use the mouse’s speech to the wet characters as an example, writing, “The play upon the word ‘dry’ in this context creates humour through its contextual misinterpretation” (Abbas 6). Oftentimes Carroll will use a pun to confuse a character, add more nonsense to the novel, or just evoke a laugh. Because of our various forms of context, which Abbas and Rahman describe in detail, we…

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…

bank. One of Lewis’s friends, Harry Liddell, had three daughters with him: Edith, Alice and Lorina. (REF) The three young girls wanted to hear a story so Lewis, being very creative, came up with a short tale about a girl named Alice and her journey through a whimsical world. This story later became known as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. What was the main inspiration behind this tale of a girl going to a made-up world? The main influences were surprisingly dark, unlike the actual story which…

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…

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 so dangerous affects her so much. But through this…

between them. Through the three different versions, a showcase of the comparisons and contrast between the three was compiled. The story of Alice stayed generally consistent between all three media’s. The classic white rabbit with the looking glass, vanishing into a small hole…

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,…

Alice is turning a non-sense world into reality. For this reason, when your imagination takes over the real and makes believe world. It is considered to be one of the best examples of literacy nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. Alice is a sensible prepubescent girl from a wealthy English family who finds herself in a strange world ruled by…

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…

Alice Walker is an amazing writer. She has the ability to remember small details about her life that makes this essay perfect. This amazing woman, carefully selects from three areas of her personal experiences in life, and she shares them with us in “Beauty” when the other dance is the self. Thus, we are captivated at the beginning of her story by self fulfilling prophecy of her vanity. We feel the painful shame when she is disfigured after being shot in the eye by her brother who asks Alice…