The Looking Glass Wars

Frank Beddor’s Novel “The Looking Glass Wars”, the author uses man different conflicts to characterize Alyss. At the beginning of the story, Alyss is confused. This can be seen when she sees her Aunt Redd attacking. After entering the Pool of Tears, Alyss becomes funny, which can be noted when she is joking with the prince. Upon entering the Looking Glass Maze, Alyss develops into a powerful character when Redd seeks her as a target. Each conflict in “The Looking Glass Wars” furthers the…

humans did, we would not go through rites of passages, or in other words we would not become a different person. Many novels in this era have many rites of passages explained throughout the books, stated in quotes. Frank Beddor, author of The Looking Glass Wars explains through his writings that everyone goes through rites of passages and no one lives a perfect life. Beddor explains through many of his characters such as Alyss, daughter of Queen Genevieve that rites of passages can change the…

The tribes in this region had no resources of corn agriculture but primarily relied on hunting and fishing. Most of the social structures in this region would be on the lines of looking similar to this. “This descent group, which consisted of a chiefly descent line, lower-ranking nobles, and commoners, takes the form of a matrilineal clan over large parts of the region.” (Mauzé, Harkin, Kan, pg135, 2004). Brown says on page 23 from…

In Anthony F.C. Wallace’s The Death and Rebirth of The Seneca, the narrator examines the Huron tribe’s practice of “war parties” - taking people hostage to avenge their battle casualties. More specifically, he targets the story of a particular victim named Joseph, who was taken by the Huron for the very same practice. In considering the evolution of his tale from kidnapping to death, the narrator touches upon important sociological concepts, including status in society and its rules, social…

Alice begins a new journey, through the Looking-glass world, taking her on an expedition through a difficult game of chess. Alice starts out in the world by meeting up with the Red Queen, who shows her the number of many brooks running straight across from side to side, dividing the area up into squares as Alice realizes it is a giant game of chess (Carroll, 131-134). The more Alice sees of the game the more she wants to be a part of it. The Red Queen puts Alice up to the test to see if she can…

Carroll portrays aspects of a child in her early years with people or subjects in which hold great influence over her upbringing with the use of metaphor, analogies, and symbolism. One of the most influential symbols that Carroll uses in Through the Looking…

The theme of growing up is a big part within Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. One of the ways this is shown is through the loss of self identity and physically growing and shrinking. This is shown whithin chapter two “The Pool of Tears”. Alice is faced with the obstical of being too large from drinking a bottle of liquid, this presents a problem for her as she desperately tries to get into the garden ‘lying down on her side, to look through into the garden with one eye’ (17) This gives the…

Age has always been an issue of mind over matter. Just as age is not limited by how one looks or feels, imagination does not either. It is often the case 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…

Lewis Carroll’s real name is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was born on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire, England. Carroll was not only a children’s writer, but a photographer and mathematician. Carroll is the son of the Reverend Charles Dodgson and Frances Jane (Lutwidge). Carroll suffered from a stutter and was deaf in one ear. He had ten brothers and sisters and was the third oldest. This contributed to his wild imagination because he would make up stories and games for his younger…

In Jan Svankmajer’s film Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland shows a surreal story of a girl whose put into her dreams. In the film, Alice attempts to find something to do. Her last hope is using her imagination. She was depressed with her life at the moment. Svankmajer was excellently brought Alice a very simple but creative mind in imagining a wonderland for herself as a way to escape to where she was. The wonderland first started with very simple and daily objects such as dishes, dolls, the house…