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    Alice is trying to conform to Victorian societal norms and expectations. Although she is only seven, she blames herself when she doesn’t have an explanation for a problem when in reality she shouldn’t expect herself (nor should anyone else) expect her to know about of what is going on in Wonderland. Alice has developed neurosis and she is consistently punishes herself for behaving in an undesirable manner and continue to accept the societal norms as her own expectations of herself. Alice has to…

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    Lewis Carroll was an English logician, mathematician, an ordained minister, a photographer and a writer best known for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. He was born on January 27, 1832, with the birth name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Many people don’t know that the Alice stories were based on a real girl, Alice Liddell. Carroll first met Liddell on a boat trip. She asked him to tell her a story and he did. It was such a good story he wrote it down for her and from there the Adventures in…

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    In one of Lewis Carroll’s books “Alice in Wonderland” a character in his book says,“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. This quote means each time you make a choice you are going down a path and it’s your choice on which path you want to take. You decide how much you want to grow from now. This quote relates to the novel “outsiders” because the people in outsiders made their own choices, they decided…

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    The sound of the title is a very familiar sound, like the sound of my father’s keys being tossed on the glass table in the doorway, or my sister’s bubbly laugh. It’s a name that I’ve grown up. Alice and her adventures. To analyze it, Alice is our lense throughout the novel. She trots the trails of wonderland, watching a baby become a big, played croquet with a flamig, and my favorite, puzzling over riddles at a chaotic tea party. These are her adventures. In all honesty, I believe the…

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    Zootopia is about a bunny, Judy Hopps, who struggles to fit into the police force. She quickly discovers that Zootopia is not quite what she imagined. Ironically, she partners up with a fox, Nick Wilde, who stubbornly creates conflict between the two of them. The story is centered around a bunny named Judy Hopps whose dream is to become a cop. Usually, predators are the only animals that become cops, but she firmly believes that she can be just as good of a cop as any predator because they are…

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    "Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning." Peter Pan is a fantastical children's book published in 1904 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, more commonly known as J. M. Barrie. The Count of Monte Cristo, written by Alexandre Dumas in 1844, is a historical young adult fiction. These two books could not be more different. Peter Pan focuses on the imagination of young ones, one of which will never grow up. The Count of Monte Cristo follows the betrayal of a man and his revenge. However,…

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    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 Cheese in the maze. The “Maze” in the story represents where we spend time looking for what we want. It can be the organization we work in, the community we live in, or the relationships we have in your life. Cheese is the Metaphor. Cheese is what we want in our life – o Whether it is a job o A loving relationship o Money or…

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    down. Carroll after rewrites the story, asked a friend for help, and went to seek out a publisher. In the year of 1865, Alice in Wonderland was published. After the success of Alice in Wonderland , Carroll published another book named Through The Looking Glass which is a sequel to Alice in Wonderland. Alice in Wonderland is a novel about a young girl named Alice who fell down a well. This well that Alice fell down into was a portal to a wonderland. Down in this wonderland, Alice met countless…

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    “Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!” Alice asks herself this shortly after entering Wonderland, although this line would not be at all out of place in any adolescent’s head (Carroll 15). Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is a novel that deals heavily with many aspects of identity, including finding and growing an identity as a child. Alice goes through many trials in the novel, and readers watch her change and adapt to get through all of these. Disney’s 1951 adaptation Alice…

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    The main character is unknown, with the book being based on their diary. We, the readers, have no info on her name, but I’m going to use Alice. We do have information on her age. This book is based on the 1960’s and in the beginning of the book, she just turned 15. Her first time using drugs weren’t on purpose, however she does get sucked into the world of them. She eventually becomes an addict, but there are some moments that they tried to stop, but relapses. And that is why I do want to become…

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