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    Disney’s Alice in Wonderland. Alice is a young woman who is proposed by Hamish, the son of Lord Ascot, per her mother’s request. After running away from the proposal, Alice falls down a rabbit hole into Underland where she meets some peculiar characters. Told that she must kill the Jabberwocky as it has been foretold, Alice runs from her destiny only to realize that she must do something to protect her friends and the place she dreamed of so long ago. After killing the Jabberwocky, Alice returns to

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    Carroll’s created characters for ‘Alice in the Wonderland’ that also include certain male representations, which were very commonly seen in the Victorian society. These include March Hares and Mad Hatters who could be viewed as the way of representing male hostility and attitude towards women of that time. Being a man, Carroll had to manage his anger because of the regressive desires held by him (Benson 3). One of the strongest characters in the story was the grinning Cheshire Cat. The cat was shown

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    Setting is important in novels because it is like a theme to a book. It is necessary to have a setting to write a good book. The setting of Alice in Wonderland is a crazy world in a rabbit hole. Alice discovers this other world by following him down his hole. This world she entered is a dream world. The animals talk and act like normal people. Alice can never tell apart reality from fantasy. This is a world through a child’s eyes. The setting of Harry Potter is two worlds. The muggle world, and

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    The film Alice in Wonderland (1951)- Disney's animated adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the most well known. The story is mainly for children. Disney combined scenes from both ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ and ‘Through the Looking Glass’ for the storyline, and characters like the Griffin, the Mock Turtle, the Duchess, the Jabberwock and Humpty Dumpty, were left out. I believe he did this because he thought that those characters were either too evil to be in a children’s movie

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    Alice in Wonderland Alice in Wonderland by Charles L Dodgeson (Lewis Carrol) is a classic masterpiece and example of great literature. Many people know of this book as merely a child’s tale or a Disney movie. As both were adopted from the book, many of the ideas were not. I have my own feelings and opinions of this book. Remarkable use of words and an originally creative theme and plot structure are both used in this book. The author of this novel used many hidden meanings, symbolism, and ambiguous

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    Everyone in Wonderland is mad, but the Red Queen is the dangerous of them all. The Red Queen in her past has many happy moments like her and her sister, the White Queen where the best of friends. Until one day the White Queen tells a lie and blames it on the Red Queen

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    In the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol there is a paragraph in Chapter two that the author writes about Alice wondering who she truly is. She thinks she could a girl named Mabel, who she seems to look down upon. The tone of the paragraph seems to be and upset and gloomy based on the author’s use of grammar and writing. For example, the punctuation used in the paragraph. The tone would be, upset meaning being unhappy and gloomy meaning the feeling of being distressed. One way

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    I have decided to choose the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol. As a graded version, I've had the book from Oxford University Press, stage 2 which is 700 words. The CD version was also available in the graded book and was retold by Jennifer Bassett. The first difference between the two versions was the number of chapters, the original had 12 chapters whereas the graded one only 6. After the very first chapter of the graded version, I did not find anything important missing. The

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    the causes, symptoms, and treatments of the Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. Thesis Statement: The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is a rare neurological condition caused by changes to parts of the brain involved with sensory information. This distorts perception and warps the senses, causing symptoms that become the target areas for treatment. Introduction I. Attention Grabber: What if Alice in Wonderland was not just a fairytale? A. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice’s world shifts continuously after she

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    Alice in Wonderland Imagination; everyone possesses it and everyone utilizes it on multiple occasions during their lifetime. In Lewis Carroll's classic tale Alice in Wonderland, a small, adventurous girl by the name of Alice stumbles through a world created in the depths of her imagination: Wonderland. While the nonsensical characters and seemingly insane laws of nature distract our minds, Carroll weaves a theme into the story's fabric with miniscule hints, easy to miss. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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