The Girl in Wonderland

Book Review   “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, written by Lewis Carroll is a true thriller. Alice is a young girl, who I believe has a imaginative yet ignorant personality. There are many characters in this book, but she controls the entire plot. To dig herself out of her problems she scolds herself, pretending to be two people. Along her way to a alluring garden, she meets new characters. Some of which are; the cheshire cat, the mad hatter, the queen and king of hearts, the duchess, the mock turtle, and the caterpillar. As I said earlier these are not all the characters from the book, but they are some of the most important. The Queen of hearts believes she has the right to execute anyone or anything, even though they may have done no wrong. She will go as far as to beheading a cat with only a head and no body. The caterpillar is very pushy, and is determined to find out who Alice is although she herself does not know. The mad hatter is a character who can be irritating and bad mannered. Alice and the mad hatter get off to a rough start from the very beginning. As you can see these characters all have unique personalities, although they can be very agitating. Now that you have had a quick cover on some of the characters from the book, the plot heads our way.The story of course takes place in Wonderland. From the name alone I could predict that there was going to be nonsense involved. Lewis Carroll starts the story by catching Alice’s attention by having a talking rabbit with pink eyes pass her. Shortly after this Alice goes down a rabbit hole following after the rabbit. With this our adventure embarks. Within the next chapter she finds herself changing sizes and unbearably forgetting her own identity as to who she is. She begins to believe she is someone she isn’t. My teacher pointed out to me that the book takes place in the Victorian age. The Victorian age was a time when you couldn’t simply say, “I believe in…” you had to know why. Therefore, many people dug down to who they really where and what they really believed in. This may have been Carroll’s motives for writing this book. Alice then later on encounters our first characters, by falling into a pool of tears. Is it just me, or does this sound queer and almost superior? A while after this she meets the duchess as her child slowly turns into a pig, and Alice goes down the road to where she meets the Cheshire cat. The cheshire cat I think is a fascinating character, in fact I think he is my favorite character, besides Alice that is. With the cat’s quick point Alice finds herself in the garden, she once longed to be in. From there she meets the queen, and stands as a witness for a trial she knows nothing about. I just love the was Lewis Carroll rapidly changes the plot from one thing to the next. I would recommend this book for someone in the transition of adolescence. I would recommend it to this age group because the theme is maturity and growing up. I personally believe that a book like this would frighten a child of a younger age group.