The Looking Glass Wars

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…

disfigured after being shot in the eye by her brother who asks Alice to go against her faith, and lit to cover it up. And finally, we rejoice with her and God, because she spiritually matures when the glob is removed from her eye. After six years of looking down with one eye, Alice is ready to face the world head on. In the first stage of this profile writer’s year of 1947, pre-civil rights era of being black in the south and poverty shed. She never experienced poverty; because of…

Seymour Glass. According to Muriel’s mother, Seymour Glass is dangerous and needs psychiatric help from past accidents and is very concerned about the safety of her daughter, Mrs. Muriel Glass. Although Seymour Glass has had episodes in the past, does it really mean that he is crazy or dangerous or just misunderstood? After returning from the war, “See More” Glass has definitely seen better days but is absolutely not crazy. Despite Mr. Glass having bad episodes, he has just returned from the war…

struggles. Salinger grew up going to many different prep schools as well as his character Holden Caulfield in the Catcher in the Rye. Holden deals with depression in this book as Salinger himself has dealt with depression induced by the stress from the war. Salinger uses his personal experiences to form his common characters who show up in other stories. In Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger shows a boy's struggle with growing up and maturing. Depression is becoming more and more prevalent in…

“Life of a soldier, looking at the glass ceiling” Taj Atkinson Teaser: I hear and see dead people all the time, can you imagine seeing hundreds of dead faces every day for the rest of your day. I see the children running to random villagers asking for help and the pain in all their faces is painted in red. Well I couldn’t either until now of course, I see them when I’m sleep, and even when I eat, I wake up and sleep in an infinite nightmare. Maybe the…

experiences to create main characters, Holden Caulfield and Seymour Glass. Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye, deals with a troubling past and has many internal problems and emotions that he keeps hidden from the few friends he has. These feelings stay bottled up in Holden throughout the story and could be the reason for his illogical decisions towards the end of the book. Like Holden, Seymour Glass, the main character of A Perfect Day for Bananafish, deals with…

with those technologies and materials. Architects are now designing with materials such as concrete, glass and steel. Their designs were simple, emphasising…

World War II left a permanent mark on the world. Gunshots could not be taken back and people are not disposable. That fact had to be set aside in order to defend what we believed in. The Holocaust; a destructive battle that the Jews would fight for with their lives. Hitler taking over Europe one country at a time. And Hiroshima; a stunning part of Japan that was bombed in response to Pearl Harbor. Casualties rising and blood spilling, the whole world is heating up to expect the very worst.…