Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

The book that I choose to read this third nine weeks was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. That is not his real name though his real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He chooses to go by this other name because he wanted to stay anonymous because he did not want to be criticized for his writings. He wrote this book in 1865 and it was originally two different books. The books are about a girl named Alice and her adventures into her Wonderland, where almost anything that you can think of happening happens.

The adventures that Alice goes through during this book are spell binding. They create a world inside of a world in your head. What I enjoyed about this book is its randomness. You think that you have a clue as to what is going on in the book but then there is a twist and some child turns into a pig and then there is a random croquet game going on. I also enjoyed how Mr. Dodgson made Alice seem like she knew everything, it added a comical effect to the story line. I also liked how nothing in the book made complete sense; it was utter nonsense which is a rare feature in a book with very little pictures.

I did not enjoy the way that Mr. Dodgson rarely kept to one thought at a time, it was like he wanted to put so many thoughts onto the paper but he never took the time to go back and add in the extra detail. He does this in both of the times that Alice goes into Wonderland. To me the story does not really flow together like a story, it is more like a journal where the person only writes in it once a week.

I would recommend this book to any of my friends or family members because it is one of my favorite books and was so widely known and people need to know the true story instead of the Disney story. Something that I learned that I did not learn in the movie is that Alice meets Humpty Dumpty; I never put the two stories together until I read this book. I would also recommend it because it is a good book to read when you want to step inside of a wonderland, but then you realize that wonderland is just as crazy as reality.

Mr. Dodgson uses many writing strategies to write this story he uses a lot of imagery. Even though there are not a lot of details being told during the story, he was able to create another world in my head. He also uses humor to reel in his readers. He makes random things happen, like knights as playing cards, chess pieces coming alive, a worrywart of rabbit who is attached to his watch like a fish is attached to water. He also used a ton of personification. He got animals and trees to talk, walk and be like humans.

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