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    However Holden’s journey in New York City is very different from Alice’s journey through Wonderland. While Alice is literally travelling through Wonderland, Holden, although roaming New York, goes on more of a mental journey. Also their journeys work in opposite directions. Holden had already grown out of his childhood and is journeying towards a place where time…

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    The vagueness of language is referenced in other ways as well, mostly by the comments made by secondary characters. For example, in the lines, “… the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable –” the Mouse is interrupted by the Duck with the line, “Found what?” To this, the Mouse can only reply, “Found it,” and the Duck is left to conclude that the Mouse must mean a frog or a worm, as those are the objects he most commonly refers to with the word it. Similarly, when the Wonderland…

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    Defamiliarization In Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” Jabberwocky (or The Jabberwocky) is a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in the novel Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) which he published in 1871 (Niki Pollock, 2000). It is a prime example of how language can be used as tool for defamiliarization as he does with his use of nonsense words and imagery. Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem. That is no accident. It did not get mangled in the printer, it was not jumbled up…

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    Wonderland Identity

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    In the novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll is attempting to show Alice maturing from a child to a young adult. Before Alice’s tumble down the Rabbit hole and trip to Wonderland, she had gone through a phase in which she believed that everything could be explained and all questions had a reasonable answer. In the real world this was the case, but not in Wonderland. This leads to the inevitable outcome of her confusion between the real world and the “imaginary” world of…

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    In “Alice in Wonderland” of 1951, Alice is transported to a place called Wonderland. In that time, she eats food, and meets animals. She also tries to wake herself up at the end of the movie. In my opinion, Wonderland is just a dream. Again, she tries to wake herself up. Second, all the animals in the movie could’ve not existed in real life or fantasy. Third, she somehow gets into Wonderland so quickly, without knowing how she got there in the first place. At the end of the film, she was trying…

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    Alice's Mental Changes

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    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carroll in 1865. The heroine of the book is six-year-old Alice Liddel. She enters the world of Wonderland after falling down a rabbit-hole on a sleepy afternoon. Subsequently, Alice changes throughout the book in two significant ways: physically and psychologically. These changes were introduced in the beginning of her adventures and play substantial roles in the story. The first changes Alice encounters are physical. Firstly, she…

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    Alice Found There

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    After the book was published, its sales went through the roof and many foreign editions had to be made. Inspired by how well Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland performed, “Carroll began work on a sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, published in 1872,” (Stanley 18). Unsurprisingly, the sequel was just as successful as it’s prequel. Many 19th century critics found Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to have a “sheer imaginative force, coupled with a blend of humor,…

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    However, her bravery shines through because she does not have fear of going to new unknown places. She previously lacked the confidence to stick up for herself. She kept to herself and thought carefully before she talking or trying to get involved in a situation. As she was going through Wonderland, Alice started to encounter creatures and imaginative objects who helped her become braver. The more creatures…

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    Jabberwocky Poem Essay

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    a rest by one of the many tumtum trees. Could he do it? Why did he choose to do this? So many things came to mind and he was unsure of his next moves. However, not to long, after loud screeches echoed through the forest. Without thought, he pulled out his sword and he stood fiercely, looking through a small gap of trees, to see the Jabberwocky stretching out its dark leathery wings. It hovered over the trees it ripped all the leaves off the trees, clearing the battle…

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    “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll is a fairy tale poem describing a boy’s quest to rid his land of the evil Jabberwock. Lewis Carroll wrote the first stanza years before the rest of the poem appeared in Through the Looking Glass (Jabberwocky, n.d.). Carroll uses portmanteaus, words made up of other words, and shows the use of several onomatopoeias, which occur when the sound of a word becomes it meaning (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). Carroll invented blended words and called them portmanteaus. The…

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