Characters
The name of Alice's cat
Dinah
Mention 3 themes that the story contains
Growing up, Communication breakdown, Good behaviour, Learning the rules, Identity, Death, Madness, Logic/Illogic
Mention 3 symbols from the story
Growing and shrinking, The garden, the journey, following orders
"You're nothing but a pack of cards!"
Alice
Mention 3 facts about the book/story
It was published in 1865
It contains 12 chapters
John Tenniel draw tha book's illustartions
The story was inventend on a boat trip for the Liddell sisters
The aim of the story is to entertain
The story is written in the 3rd person narrator
The first creature form Wonderland that Alice encounters
The White Rabbit
Explain how the theme "growth2 is developed in the story
Alice's adventures parallel the journey from shildhood into adulthood...
What does Wonderland represent?
an illogical, nonsensical place where nothing is as expected.
"Mine is a sad and long tale"
The Mouse
Why is the story told as a dream?
It is told as a dream to make its criticism acceptable
The character who teaches Alice how to control her physical size.
The Caterpillar
Explain how the theme "Communication" is shown in the story
Logical communication is interrupted and language can be a source of confusion
Explain the symbols "Growing and shrinking"
The growing and shrinking in the book are clearly signs for growing up—for reaching maturity. As Carroll depicts it, growing up is a painful and confusing process, and it doesn't necessarily have positive results.
"Why Mary Ann, what are you doing out here? Run home this moment and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan!"
The White Rabbit
What does the Hatter's madness make allusion to?
His madness makes allusion to the real-life tendency of hatters to go mad because of the poisonous mercury theu used to cure felt.
Alice's Nemesis in Wonderland
The Queen of Hearts
Victorian society is criticized in the story. Identify 2 examples of this from the story
How children are raised and disciplined (the Duchess and her varied reactions to her baby), the middle-class obsession with time and punctuality (the White Rabbit frantically checking his watch), and 19th-century views on mental illness (the Cheshire Cat's comments about everyone in Wonderland being "mad").
What does the hidden garden represent?
In Alice in Wonderland, the garden's symbolism is fluid. Obviously it shares imagery with the Garden of Eden—a lost paradise. It can also be seen to represent unattainable beauty. It looks beautiful when Alice sees it from afar, but the loveliness vanishes as soon as she's actually inside the garden
"You are looking for eggs, I know that well enough and what does it matter to me whether you're a little girl or a serpent?"
The Pigeon
Games & Logic play a major role in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Two games played in the story are:
the Caucus Race & Croquet
"It had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect." (Carroll 80).
The Cheshire Cat
Death and mortality are underlying themes of the story. Identify 2 examples of this from the story
Shrinking down to nothing, drowning in a pool of tears, fear of the Cheshire Cat, The Cook/Duchess, The Queen
What does the baby that turns into a pig symbolise?
That children can grow into disagreeable adults.
"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that you were or might have been was not otherwise that what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
The Duchess
Two reasons poetry is used in Alice's adventures
Satire,Parody, and/or Humor