This book is one of my all time favorites. I love Lewis Carroll's puns and his play on words. For example, in chapter 3 the Mouse tells the group of birds and Alice the driest things he knows because everyone is wet. The author uses the meaning of dry as in not wet and the meaning of dry as in dull and lifeless as a pun.
Everytime I read this book, my favorite part has always been when Alice meets the Caterpillar. This is where the pace of the story begins to pick up, whereas the first four chapters seemed to move pretty slowly. The Caterpillar keeps contradicting everything Alice has to say and it makes her question who she is and what she wants. The Caterpillar's arguments frustrate Alice because it wants her to explain everything she says.
From this point on in the story, Alice finds more characters that contradict what she says and thinks and they make her question who she is and what she wants more than ever. For example, when Alice meets the Pigeon she calls herself a "little girl" but says it with doubt because of all the growing and shrinking that she had been going through. Wonderland makes Alice doubt herself.
Kat,
ReplyDeleteThis book is also starting to become one of my favorites, now that it is becoming easier to understand. I like how you caught on to the puns and word play the author uses throughout the story (which I didn't realize until after reading your post). This really helped me look at the story in a different way and I'm even starting to find them.
I also couldn't agree with you more about the Caterpillar. It’s my favorite character, and the way he is presented in the story is clever and witty, especially when contradicting Alice.