Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The movie Still Alice is about a woman named Alice Howland, a fifty-year-old, who is a famous linguistics author and a teacher at Columbia University and is diagnosed with early-onset familial Alzheimer’s disease. This woman is incredibly smart and is known for her intellect. Alice notices she is forgetting small things like words and names and getting lost in places she knows well. For example, while she was on a run around campus, she completely forgot where she was and found herself to be lost

The book “Still Alice” by Lisa Genova has many text to text connections with Adele’s song, “Hello”. This song released in 2015, talks about the issue of passing of loved ones. In the first verse, when Adele sang, “[t]hey say that time’s supposed to heel ya, [b]ut I ain’t done much healing”, relates to how Alice feels towards the losses of her family members. While she believed that she had done mourning over the loss of her family when “[s]he hadn’t shed a single tear …and [the] loss she felt for

Initially, after reading Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, I quite enjoyed the book; it is good at showing how difficult life can be, and the language was understandable enough that the reader could sympathize with the protagonist after reading about her ample, outlandish trials and tribulations. Upon a closer, second, examination, however, I was not so keen to love the book, for the language is definitely not that of an adolescent - much less a fifteen year old girl. Additionally, the turn of events also

Pre-Reading Wicked, & The Wonderful Wizard of Oz I never really liked The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The lion, scarecrow, and tin man were all characters that kind of freaked me. I think this had to do with their costumes, the lions faces creeped me out. As of Wicked I now there is a musical, which I have not seen. Overall, I am kind of excited to read the book. While Reading Wicked So the book starts out with a prologue of the witch spying on the Lion, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Dorothy. As the story

Based on the children’s literary work written by Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland is a fictional film that was directed by Tim Burton.  The film is set in Wonderland inside of Alice’s dream, so viewers are able to recognize the lack of order and the fantasies of children.  One of the major themes seen in the movie is childhood, specifically the development into adulthood, which is depicted in other characters besides Alice.  Alice, however, is used as the primary symbol for what children in the

During every era of literature, madness is used as a device to help move the plot along, whether it is in ancient writing, William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or Young Adult Novels such as Alice in Wonderland or Percy Jackson and the Olympians. There are many things that could drive a person to madness but if they try and stop the madness by seeking the help they can combat it rather than falling into a dark state of mind that is complete insanity. Most people choose to receive help to defeat their

inflicted by others’ mental endurance. By overcoming these obstacles Telemachus develops into the universally known stereotypical hero. However, the same cannot be said for the heroes of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Lewis Carol’s Alice in Wonderland. At the end of their journeys, Jewel and Alice become different kinds of heroes; instead of becoming a stereotypical plucky adventurer, they each develop different traits to benefit themselves along their journey. After several failed

Children’s Book Showcases the Beauty of Travel Dreams Rhythmic children’s book is just one of the few books to tackle the subject among children. Staci Capehart’s Lily The Girl Who Can Fly in Her Dreams: Lily Goes to Paris (AuthorHouse, 2016) features solid illustrations out of rich colors that get readers, young and old alike, to think they’re watching a cartoon and not reading a book. They will find the story engaging and fun to read due to its rollicking rhymes, but the story’s appeal lies most

The theme of the book, in my opinion, would be growing up, particularly going through puberty and experiencing an identity crisis. In chapter one, Alice’s first obstacle is to fit through a door into a beautiful garden. A bottle that shrinks and a cake that grows where the means to diminish her problem. Throughout the book, her variety of sizes gives Alice a lot of grief. She cannot seem to control it; it confuses her and makes her feel sad, frustrated and uncomfortable. Her height problems can allude

So I escaped, the zoo, and I saw a sign that said "Cat on trip ta bed, (Caution Cliff Ahead)" "Cats on trips! Yay kitties going to find their beds! I wanna go! I wanna go! Pick me, pick me! Pick me teacher! I want a kitty! Kitties!!!" but of course ya know, I'm dyslexic so like I couldn't actually read it; I nearly fell off and killed myself... Ohh... Caution Cliff Ahead. Anyways, point being, I escaped, and this nice old man walked up to me and said "Halloa there, old chap! Voudriez-vous des bonbons