A book I enjoyed was Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol, a classic fantasy story set in 18th century. It is one of the most famous children’s books ever written in the world. It has been translated in 80 languages, adapted for movie, theatre, even television.
There are many convincing characters, such as a white rabbit who lead Alice to the new world. Then, the character that made the most impression on me was Alice because she needs to think how to solve some problems in her new world. Then, one of the most memorable moments in the book was when she started to falling down in a rabbit-hole. She saw every single thing fliyng.
The novel traces the life of a young girl named Alice who lived near the riverbank, finds her transported to a new world alone. It is the story of a young girl named Alice. As she is sitting on the riverbank of the Thames, she sees a white rabbit with a waistcoat that is talking to itself, pass by. Alice follows it out of curiosity until she enters a rabbit-hole and starts falling down slowly. When the little girl eventually lands, she is in a room with a table and a key on it. A little door leads into a wonderful garden. But it is so small she can’t go through. She then notices a small bottle labeled “Drink me” on the table. Alice drinks it and becomes very small. But she forgot to open the door and cannot reach the key. She now eats a cake labeled “eat me” and become very big. As she is confused she cries and then tries to cool herself with the white rabbit’s fan. She soon shrinks so much she is forced to swim in her own tears. She then meets other animals and gets out of the water. The Mouse wants to tell a dry story in order to dry but the Dodo suggests a caucus-race. When she is dry, Alice enters the garden. She goes to a house and drinks from a bottle, making her grow again. She is so big she cannot get out and all the animals gather to make her leave. They throw pebbles at her, which are in fact pieces of cake. She eats one and shrinks again. She runs from the house into the wood and meets a huge puppy and later the Caterpillar sitting on a mushroom and smoking a hookah. The caterpillar tells her that eating one side or the mushroom will make her either shrink or grow. Then she finds a cottage where a Fish-Footman delivers an invitation from the Queen to play croquet to a Frog-Footman. She enters and meets the Duchess in the kitchen with her baby. A cook is making a soup and is putting a lot of pepper making the air unbearable. The baby is crying so Alice takes it outside where it changes into a piglet. She leaves him and runs into the woods until she comes upon the Cheshire cat, a grinning, but mysterious animal. He doesn’t appear all at once, and his grin is the first thing Alice sees.
Alice goes on until she meets the mad Hatter and the March Hare, who are having a tea party with a sleeping Dormouse. Alice finds them confusing because they ask riddles to which there is no answer and pretend that there is no room for her whereas there is. Suddenly, she finds herself in the room where she landed. She uses a piece of mushroom to grow there right size and enters the garden where the Queen is having a croquet game with flamingoes for sticks and hedgehogs for holes. Alice is invited to play. The Queen orders anyone who disagrees with her to be beheaded. Alice finishes the game and is the only one not to be sentenced. The Queens then asks a Gryphon to take Alice to the Mock Turtle in order to hear its story. The Turtle tells Alice about the time when she was at school and learned subjects like ‘reeling, ‘writhing’ or ‘fainting’. Then Alice, the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle dance a Lobster Quadrille. Next they attend a trial, where the King, assisted by the White Rabbit, tries to find who has stolen some tarts. Alice starts growing and tips over the jury box. The Queen asks to sentence the accused now and to hear the verdict later. Alice protests and is sentenced. She replies to her that nobody cares and that they are just a pack of cards. The cards start jumping at her face and that is the moment when she wakes up from her dream. Alice in Wonderland was written for children. It is a humorous fantasy novel about a child’s dream world with strange people and animals. The language used is simple and the book contains drawings to make it fun to read. The reader sees the Wonderland through Alice’s perspective and listens to her inner monologues.
In addition, the book is divided into episodes and stories. Al these different aspects make it an entertaining book. However, it was written during the 18th century, a time when children books had a didactical purpose. That is why this novel is also meant for educational purposes, it describes the growth of Alice from an unruly little girl, always questioning everything, to a wise woman. Another facet of this book is its criticism. Alice was the first child character in English literacy to criticize the world of the grownups, showing their pride. Indeed, Wonderland, people, animals, and creatures symbolize adulthood. As they think in the most illogical way, the more Alice tries to understand them, the more she gets confused. Finally, Alice in Wonderland was written in a very unusual way.
The author used nonsense verses, a process of treating logic in an ironic way. It was done by playing strange word games with apparently no signification, presenting absurd rhymes, and asking riddles that had no answer. For instance, many of names characters are word games, the Chasire cat, the March Here and many others. Moreover, Carrol likes to invent neologism such as ‘uglification’ or ‘muchness’. They create a singular atmosphere in the book. Anyone with a taste of fantasy adventure would certainly enjoy the beautiful world of Alice in Wonderland(HR).
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