Sunday Night How Alice made it through the madness of Wonderland is something I’ll never understand. My Sunday had already been a topsy-turvy nightmare since the moment I woke up: Texts from people who had no business having my number, a family emergency that called me away from my lover, and the desperate need of an actual shower--morning sex is good and all but not when you’ve left your honey lavender body wash at home. So when the red and blue swirl of cop lights blinded me through my rearview window, I knew we—my sister and her friend were in the car as well—were fucked. The more I think back on that night, the more ironic it seems. Around 9:30PM my sister, Valerie, her friend, Paris, and I left the John C. Hitt Library. We had spent the last four hours doing homework and more. We were all tired, but still not ready to go home. So I suggested we go to Oviedo on the Park. A cute destination when you’re looking for aesthetic—a lake with a fountain in the center, swan paddle boats that rest gracefully on the water, and shops either in the making or already open. We didn’t stay at the park for long because of how late it was and not wanting to be out late at night. Three black females alone late at night in a black Jeep Patriot that I’ve nicknamed the Juggernaut (nobody knows that but me) didn’t sound like the makings of a Disney movie. After making a left turn onto Alafaya, we all knew it was just a matter of minutes (no more than five) before we were back home. It was
Night is an autobiographical novella written by Elie Wiesel a young jewish boy who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is from the small town of Sighet, Transylvania. This book begins in late 1941 and chronicles Elie's life through the end of the war in 1945.He had two older sisters, Hilda and Beatrice Wiesel and a younger sister, Tzipora Wiesel. Elie spoke many languages including Hungarian, Romanian, German and he grew up
In summary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice had seen a white rabbit with a pocket watch. She followed it down a rabbit hole and this began her adventure. Alice had cried because she had not been able to get smaller to go through the door. After a while Alice finds a bottle that says drink me and gets smaller. She had flooded the room from crying and all the
In reading, Night by Elie Wiesel and A Man's Search For Meaning by , many stories of the torturous life in the concentration camps during the second world war. In each book, the reader gets a different point of view from each book because in Night, you get to read about a teenager's view and in the book, A Man's Search For Meaning, you get to read about a middle aged man's view. In the book, Night, Elie, his family and his community go through a system of indoctrination which in each step it makes you seem less and less of a human. The first step is that the Hungarian police made all the Jewish people wear yellow stars, so they could be picked out easily. The next step is that all the Jewish people had to get rid of all their valuable
Alice begins by startling at the sight of the Cat sitting on a tree bough, while the Cat only grins at Alice. As dear Alice asks for advice on which way she ought to continue, the Cat claims, “if you do not know where you want to end up, then surely it does not matter which way you go” (Carroll 49). This simplistic view of decision making plays on the complexity that humans weave into simple decisions of everyday life. Alice’s confusion is spotlighted by this overtly simple take on decisions, and her confusion can then be tied to the absence of a concrete identity. The Cat proceeds to reveal that in Wonderland, “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad,” and this awareness and acceptance of “the fury” within himself further serves to bold Alice’s insecurity (Carroll 49). Perhaps, if Alice knew who she was to others – and to herself – in Wonderland, she would not deny the madness of Wonderlands creatures, including
Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night” is written in Terza Rima, a very uncommon form first used by Dante Alighieri, the famous Italian poet. Terza Rima is a very cyclical form, with the unusual rhyme scheme interlocking the stanzas. Frost uses this form to represent the cyclical nature of his night time journeys to the edge of town, as well at the cyclical nature of depression and suicidal ideation. The most interesting thing about this poem is how ambiguous it is, and how Frost goes about creating the ambiguity. It is extremely straight-forward, and is not hard to interpret literally.
In the nonsensical world of Wonderland, Alice falls down an infinite tunnel into an outbreak of mad sense, as well as a flurry of boisterous royalty and mad company. In the novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice is confronted with the preposterous logic of the most absurd characters. In the strange culture of Wonderland, adaptation is vital, which changes Alice from a meager girl to an outspoken character. As Alice wanders through the unpredictable world of Wonderland, she must cope with a new identity and prosper in a new environment where maturation is necessary for success; the demand for mental growth in difficult circumstances challenges Alice to progress into womanhood- transforming her from a frightened, young girl into a sensible, confident woman.
In Lewis Carroll’s story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the character Alice stumbles upon a world called Wonderland upon her curiosity. As she makes her trip around Wonderland, she goes on a journey to find herself because she is not sure who she is after entering the world, and she is not sure how she fits in this new world or her old one. While she is figuring out her own place in Wonderland’s society, she meets a series of characters who interact and attempt to change her perspective on life. By using Alice and these characters, Carroll offers readers his own critique on the way society functions and how it is structured. Although all of Carroll’s characters are considered insane, they all have different perspectives on how the world
Alice is a girl whose parents and sister died in a fire and nobody can explain what caused the fire. Alice survived the fire and was told to make her survival meaningful. In reality, Alice's skin is sickly pale with shoulder-length brown hair and round, pale green eyes with bags around them. She wears a black-and-white dress and a dirty white apron. When she zones into Wonderland, Alice has a healthier complexion. She has longer hair that has a reddish tint and appears to be wearing make-up. Wonderland, a place where her inner thoughts, desires, and psyche manifest. Everyone has heard of or seen Alice in wonderland, but not everyone has heard of Alice returning to wonderland only to find it has become evil. Alice: Madness Returns takes place
1. As it is quite obvious in the story, the narrator does not think that these men and women deserve to die. This is abundant when in the very last line of the story the narrator states, “when will it be light?”
Carroll uses insecurities and the messages of chaos and death to express how bewildering and complicated life is. Feeling frustrated with her inability to control her form, Alice's battle represents the insecurities of puberty. Carroll's novel contains the recurring message of chaos: how bewildering and complicated life is. The only thing Alice can count on is frustration and ureliability. Alice goes through many life-endangering incidents, yet death never materializes. Carroll uses the interesting story to draw in readers and get them to see his point of view without anyone noticing it. Using Alice as a relatable vessel, Carroll projects his ideas from her personality. Alice;s Adventures in Wonderland is a fascinating story that encapsulates
Throughout Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice discovers a new way of life through experience, is influenced by the nonsense around her, and is brought significantly closer to truly finding herself. As she wanders through Wonderland, her eyes are opened to an entirely new world with a plethora of interesting creatures. From living decks of cards to clock-wearing rabbits, Alice is quickly introduced to the imagination she never knew she had. It doesn’t take long before the world of Wonderland begins to seep into the mind of young Alice and have her questioning her own identity. Whether Wonderland is a real place or just a figment of Alice’s imagination, it takes her mind for a spin and leaves her with more of an understanding about life than she ever would have learned on her own.
Often, many things in life are hidden in plain sight. One must have the senses to see them, like in Jesus' parables. They are ordinary stories that have hidden messages of God and his Kingdom, visible to those who look carefully enough. The same could be said about Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a tale of a young girl in a nonsensical world. The novel comprises of a whimsical charm and a feeling of absurd madness. Early critics even considered it nonsense, unworthy of serious critiquing. But underlying all the nonsense and illogic, there is more that can be taken from the story, even from a psychoanalytical point of view. Carroll very cleverly uses literary devices, specifically satire, paradox, and personification to put some sense into the seemingly nonsensical world of Wonderland.
Alice moves in a dreamworld, far flung from typical legal guidelines and ideas” .Carroll’s Wonderland story is an a laugh story that entertained a bored society. It “cleared away the lifeless wooden in youngsters’s literature and marked the advent of liberty of idea in kids’s books” (Carpenter, 67). What's most special in the production of a young heroine distinctive from the normal ladies within the dominant youngsters’ books in Victorian time. Lewis Carroll portrays vividly Alice’s dream trip in Wonderland, the place she experiences emotional upheaval and bodily transformations, encounters quite a lot of creatures, and undergoes a loss of and quest for identification, and subsequently good points self-confidence and returns again to the
Alice was a young girl from a respectable home, thrown into the chaos called Wonderland. She tried to understand their very peculiar customs, but was called insane by the inhabitants that she thought were mad themselves. Alice’s character was inspired by a certain young girl to whom the author would tell stories. Alice was the one constant in the story, much like children were the one constant in the author’s life. She represented normality for him in the face of mockery.
In a small town, a red brick two-story house resides on a dead-end road. Inside this home was a small, chubby girl with bobbed chestnut hair that swayed back and forth about her round face. Her memory is held fast against the beautiful and happy home’s heart. The house across the road is the exact same on the outside but only with weather-stained, red brick, making it appear a little stranger, a little older, a little sadder than the proud house. Inside that house lived a girl of young age. She was tall compared to the average child her year in school. Lanky with freckles and hair that was charcoal. The aged, sagging house doesn't even remember her.