Chapter 5 and 6. Too large to post as a comment.

As the story progresses, I find that the story is moving at a rather rapid pace. The settings keep changing and Alice meets more and more people or animals during the story. The chapter opens with her discovering a Caterpillar relaxing and smoking a hookah on top of a mushroom. The Caterpillar asks her who is she is, but she has trouble explaining. The Caterpillar begins to recite a poem and then asks her what size she wants to be. The Caterpillar tells her that the mushroom can make her grow if she eats it and then the Caterpillar leaves. She finds that eating one side makes her smaller, and eating the other side makes her grow larger. Alice finally grows back to her original height or somewhere near her original height. She begins to talk to herself again and plans what to do next. She brings up the garden again , then she gets distracted by tiny house about four feet tall. I think that her getting easily distracted symbolizes her childish mind. She ate the mushroom to make her shrink again so she could enter the house.I also think that her eating the random things she eats and drinks symbolizes her transition from childhood to adulthood. When the Caterpillar asks Alice who she is, she answers but begins to doubt her answers and thinks it over again. This could symbolize her confusion of this transition because in real life when we make this transition we are often confused of what to do. This adventure that she's on could symbolize Alice trying to find herself before she makes that transition into a adulthood. The hookah could symbolize everything as a dream, because when you smoke hookah, you begin to see things that aren't possible in reality.


When the two footmen bowed, their curls got tangled and Alice began to laugh showing her childish personality. The Footman didn't open the door saying that the people inside were making too much noise to hear her knocks, so she lets herself into the kitchen. There, she meets a Cheshire Cat named Duchess, and it begins singing to the baby. Alice takes the baby outside and discovers a pig outside. The pig leaves, and she runs into the cat again. They chat for a bit and then the cat leaves again, leaving Alice to travel to the March Hare's house by herself. She finds that the house is quite larger and she eats some mushrooms to grow larger. She walked up to the house rather shy, as a child would when first meeting someone. As she grows larger, i think the author uses repetition to emphasize the growing and shrinking of Alice to represent her confusion of this transition.