Looking Backward

Wonderland is as beautiful and colorful as she remembered, reminiscent of a masterpiece painting using colors selected by a child. Alice navigates through the dense forests, tall mushrooms and strange fauna. Alice navigates the path as if she’d done it every day of her life. Upon stumbling through a darker part on her path she all at once gets the sensation of being watched, a chill goes down her spine; the sense of someone breathing on her neck; the sound of faint whispers into her ear, yet she…

narrator touches upon important sociological concepts, including status in society and its rules, social consciousness, the motivations of suicide, the normality of action, the idea of the “organized game,” the language of movement, the notion of the looking-glass self, and the concept of the “marginal man.” With a status in society comes responsibilities. As Ralph Linton said in his essay, Status and Role, “[Status and role] become models for organizing the attitudes and behavior of the…

Autobiography: Love Your Rabbit Heneghan, Judith. Love Your Rabbit. London: Wayland, 2013. Print. Judith Heneghan is an expert on rabbits. I learned so much from her amazing book. She owns two rabbits named Jack and Jill. She provides many things for these animals including different virides of food (hay , pellets bananas, apples, E.T.C) and different bedding to change things up a bit. She also likes to put her bunny outside because she believes that bunnies should get as much of the…

In Lewis Carroll’s book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice undergoes a lot of changes that would normally happen if one were growing up . Alice is then trying to figure out how to stay to her normal size through of the book. She has to learn how to act like an adult throughout the book . Alice is troubled with these issues of suddenly acting like an adult and growing up . The Rapid Change of Growth Alice encounters many growth changes through the book. The first change she goes through…

“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…

Carroll’s Jabberwocky The absurd has always piqued the interest of many, no matter when or where in time they are. Lewis Carroll seems to have mastered the art of the preposterous with his poem Jabberwocky featured in his book titled Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alive Found There. Published in 1871, Jabberwocky tells the tale of a son who fights the Jabberwock in an odd world. Carroll manages to captivate and make use of the reader’s imagination with an otherwise regular tale by adopting…

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,…

“Beware the jabberwock my son, the jaws that bite and the claws that catch. beware the jubjub bird and shun the frumious bandersnatch, he took his vorpal sword in hand, long time the manxome foe he sought, so rested he by the tumtum tree and stood awhile in thought, and as in uffish thought he stood, the jabberwock with eyes of flame, came whiffling through the tulgey wood, and burbled as it came, one! two! one! two! and through and through, the vorpal blade went snicker snack, he left it dead…

"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.…