Natasha Trethewey's Alice In Wonderland

Late rabbits, talking cats, and dancing cards are just some of the un-natural occurrences that take place in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In today’s society with competing books, such as Harry Potter, these elements in the book may seem like no big deal, but for the time period the book was published, these were anything but normal. This children’s book was first published in 1865 in the United Kingdom; during the Victorian time period, named after Queen Victoria. The book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland represents a satire on the Victorian Era and how people were expected to act, through which Carroll displays an overall theme of growing up.

Is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as absurd and nonsensical as it seems to be—without any traces of morals hiding underneath the bizarre shaped tea cups and crooked smiles? Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, written by an English author in 1865 under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, contains obscurities that leave people uncertain due to the nonsense. The novel holds many obscurities, such as a disappearing Cheshire Cat, a personified rabbit, and a caterpillar who smokes from a hookah. These characters hold a common feature of madness, yet the nonsense of this novel relates to the nonsense of Lowell High School, a public school that piles bricks of pressure on their students leading them to madness. Although, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland contains a series of puzzles that seem unsolvable, it symbolizes a strong foundation that helps Lowell High School ninth graders gain knowledge about surviving the competitive school.

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.

After gaining a PHD in Neuroscience at Harvard University, Lisa Genova has written numerous fiction novels themed around her speciality of Mental Health. Lisa’s inspiration to write ‘Still Alice’ was for two reasons; firstly the trauma of witnessing her grandmother ‘disassembled’ and turned from a vibrant and intelligent woman into someone who neither recognised herself nor her life. Secondly, whilst studying Lisa became fascinated in understanding how a person with Alzheimer’s Disease really feels, but identified the lack of research available to demonstrate the emotional effects. Lisa attempted to rectify this literature gap by writing ‘Still Alice’. The title of the book is very poignant as it illustrates how, despite being the same person, the identity of someone with Alzheimer’s Disease can get forgotten. Targeted at both teenagers and adults, ‘Still Alice’ is fictional yet anticipated to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s Disease. The book has a realistic quality as various professionals’ and ‘patients’’ perspectives have been captured and incorporated. ‘Still Alice’ has been hugely successful, selling over one million copies. The book has also been the basis for a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award-winning film.

From talking rabbits to many other strange and unusual things, Alice has a very memorable trip through wonderland. Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carrol,takes place in the victorian era. He wrote it for the Liddel family, he then published it and it is now a famous children book. There were many events that we can see Alice’s background from coming from the Victorian Era throughout the text. Although Alice enters wonderland as an immature and inexperienced child, throughout her adventure in wonderland she learns new skills and tools that help her grow and mature in many ways.

Alice Walker is an African-American woman’s activist/feminist and author who was born in the early 1940s, in Eatonton, Georgia. Walker lived in the the rural south at a time when there were heavy poverty and racial violence amongst most African Americans. The circumstances that Walker faced ended up contributing to the person that she is today and it is reflected in many of her novels. Even throughout the trials and tribulations that Walker endured, she was still able to succeed in life. As a young child, Walker had an accident with a BB gun and ended up going blind in one eye. Because of this injury, this turned Walker into a very timid and shy child, Walker eventually graduated and left home to go to college and later got involved in the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Many years later in Walkers young adult life, she endured major depression from having to deal with the termination of her pregnancy. In the 1960s, she returned to Mississippi, where she met a Jewish civil rights law student named Mel Leventhal, where they eventually married and moved to Mississippi. Alice eventually got pregnant, but unfortunately miscarried the baby. Over the years, she channeled many of the experiences that she faced into fictional stories about the lives of blacks in America, especially woman in the South. The characters in Walkers writings faced a lot of the same trials that Walker herself endured such as, racism, violence, discrimination of woman, low self-esteem, and etc.

The hallway contains dozens of doors that are all locked. Alice’s pre-adolescent stage parallels with her position in the hallway. Alice’s position in the hallway represents that she is at a stage stuck between being a child and a young woman. She posses a small golden key to the garden door, the only door that Alice cannot enter due to her size. Thus, her journey and her self-awareness begin when she strives to fit into the garden door. Issues concerning her size, identity, and her social exchanges with both Wonderland and its creatures spur and characterize Alice’s development towards becoming a young woman.

A storyline that is engaging makes it difficult for readers to put the book down. Go Ask Alice, by Beatrice Sparks, is an anonymous story from a girl whose name is said to be “Alice”. Her name was never confirmed as the story was brought to life from diary entries. “Alice” was introduced at the age of fourteen. Roger was her crush that she had high hopes in to spend their time together. Her parents go unnamed throughout the story but play an important role as they supported her through all her decisions.

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has entertained not only children but adults for over one hundred years. The tale has become a treasure of philosophers, literary critics, psychoanalysts, and linguists. It also has attracted Carroll's fellow mathematicians and logicians. There appears to be something in Alice for everyone, and there are almost as many explanations of the work as there are commentators. It may be perhaps Carroll's fantastical style of writing that entertains the reader, rather than teaching them a lesson as was customary in his time.

In the year 1865, Lewis. C. Carroll published a Novel titled, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This novel tells the story of a girl named Alice who enters a bizarre world called Wonderland, which she initially cannot comprehend because she lacks knowledge of this world and her place in it, Thus, Alice takes a journey through this world to understand both it and herself. Some people read this novel and call it a children 's story. However,the novel does more than just tell a mere children’s story. Lewis Carroll 's whimsical story, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,acts as a surreal allegory for the arduous process of coming of age and finding one 's identity. By illustrating the change in character that the protagonist of the story,Alice, undergoes in her journey.

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.

image of Alice as a child. Another theme in the novel is Identity. Alice is confused through the

Lewis Carroll?s novel, Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland, has captivated readers for decades. From England?s Victorian Age to the present-day, Carroll?s work remains a priceless treasure for all who have fallen in love with Alice and become immersed in the world of Wonderland. Although Lewis Carroll?s Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland is classified as children?s fantasy, the novel also explores the difficulties adolescents face as they mature, including the emotional struggles of self-identity and physical maturity, loss of innocence, and an enduring conflict between childhood and adulthood.

Finding your identity as a maturing human, is something many people struggle with. Imagine you are a young girl, soon tumbling down a hole to a whole new world. Lewis Carroll shares the story of a girl named Alice. The book is a fun and creative story, but shares the struggles of a young girl finding her identity. The style of Lewis Carroll is often described as symbolic. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is written using many symbols. The symbols show children’s identity changes while entering adulthood. The symbols of the garden and the caterpillar 's mushroom, fantasized characters, and the rabbit hole in Wonderland lead Alice to her true identity.

In the realm of children’s stories, the reader is rarely required to uncover a deeper meaning concealed beneath the surface of the text. Lewis Carroll, however, is an exception to this rule. Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is widely known as an amusing and lighthearted children’s story, yet beneath its surface lies many hidden truths. Unlike most authors, Carroll incorporates a great deal of nonsense into his work. Putting readers through many loops in order to decode his skewed logic, is what allows Carroll to stand apart from other authors. Hamidreza Hossein Mikhchi, author of the World Journal of English comments on this claim by saying, “Rather than a lack of meaning, the effect of nonsense is usually created by a