Thursday, August 19, 2010

Alice in the Wonderland

Chapter five starts off with Alice meeting the caterpillar. I found it interesting how Lewis Carrol decided to use a caterpillar as some kind of guidance for Alice because I would have gone for an owl or something not like a super chill hooka smoking caterpillar. But nevertheless the caterpillar was able to get her to think about stuff that she doesn't seem like she thinks about on the daily. The caterpillar was just basically asking her questions on change and she doesn't really get it, but she got really annoyed by how the animals were so quick to get offended. She's like stuck in figuring out what she wants and when she offends an animal or something, she is so quick to change so whoever she offends come back and help her figure out. Anyways in chapter six, Alice eventually finds the house of the dutchess and she finds the scene so absurd because you see the dutchess sneezing, holding a baby who is howling and also sneezing and a cook throwing random house-hold items at the dutchess. Alice and the dutchess eventually get into a conversation in which this time Alice is the one who gets offended because the dutchess basically insulted her. Then she leaves the house with the baby because she felt as if the baby was in a dangerous place, but she leaves the baby because it became a pig, which probably meant the kid was snobby (in which the kid was a snobby kid!). Alice keeps going and talks to the cat she briefly met in the house of the dutchess. The cat was also some kind of guidance because the cat also made her think like what did she want to do and where she should go,but it was kind of difficult because Alice doesn't know specifically what she wants; all she want to do is go someplace different. And that's her problem; she just wants to go with the flow, but she kind of has to start thinking of goals like how should she get out of that maddening world. I think this is a turning point for Alice because she's beginning to think about that stuff.

2 comments:

  1. Catrina,

    Your post did a good job of explaining what happened during the events of chapter 5 and 6. At points in your post, you managed to interweave what happened in the book and your own opinion and analysis. However, a majority of the post was a summary. Focusing on only the literary device might help you.

    Anyways, I also thought that the cat and caterpillar were forms of guidance for Alice. Alice's character has mostly been seen as a casual person, taking Wonderland one step at a time. So, when you explained about the significance of the "guides" and how Alice has to start thinking about goals, I remembered how she is in a turning point in her life. Alice is stuck between being a carefree child or a goal-setting teen.

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  2. Hey Trina(: I would've chosen an owl as a guidance too, but the "super chill hooka smoking caterpillar" was entertaining. With the caterpillar and cat giving her guidance, it seems like she created those characters based off of two people actually in her life. Do you think so too? Oh, and the cat makes a point when he says everyone in Wonderland is mad. Makes me wonder if that's how she see's the people in her life.

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