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    Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a story of a young girl’s journey down the rabbit hole into a fantasy world where there seems to be no logic. Throughout Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice experiences a variety of bizarre physical changes, causing her to realize she is not only trying to figure out Wonderland but also trying to determine her own identity. After Alice arrives in Wonderland the narrator states, “For this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people”

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    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland outline Introduction 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

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    Lewis Carroll's Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland portrays animals with anthropomorphic characteristics, creating a sense that the animals are humans, just like ourselves. Anthropomorphism in this book, was quite apparent, as usually animals cannot talk, smile, keep sense of time or smoke from a hookah. Human characteristics add a sense of diversity to these animals in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and lend a hand to creating the sense of adulthood within them. Alice tends to think of these animals

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    Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland The development of the present world has created many changes in society, and authors today use these modern themes in their books just as authors from earlier times took inspiration from the world around them. Coraline by Neil Gaiman published in 2002 and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, written in 1865, contrast the darker themes often found in today’s novels and the simple, moralistic ones of earlier times. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll was published in 1865. Lewis Carroll did a phenomenal job writing this novel. Many people said he was on drugs because of all of the crazy things that went on throughout this novel. I believe he was very creative. He covered a lot of things throughout this important literary work such as: setting, character development, symbolism, purpose of this novel, point of view, tone, theme, genre, and figurative language.

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    Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” A book analysis by Brage Øien Lewis Carroll is the writer name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English mathematician and writer, born 1832 in Guilford, Cheshire, England. He is most famous for the novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, or “Alice in Wonderland” which it is commonly referred to as. The idea came under a boat trip in 1862 with the three young Liddell sisters, Lorina, Edith and Alice, when they asked Dodgson to tell them a story

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    by Francesce Lia Block, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and The Color of Earth by Dong Hwa Kim. Each of these books are mainly for girl readers and it shows female characters facing changes as they are maturing from young children to young adults. On the surface there are a lot of similarities between the stories Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Weetzie Bat and The Color of Earth. The main characters Alice, Weetzie and Ehwa have a journey or an adventure they are going through

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    Inner Desires Lewis Carroll’s whimsical journey into Wonderland has created a fantasy worlds full of mystery and depth. In this essay I will discuss the links between the consumption of food and the underlying desires behind consuming. In this essay I will argue that food is used as a transformative device to enable Alice to voluntarily explore and involuntarily supress her inner desires. Within the Lewis Carroll texts, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice found

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    In Lewis Carroll’s novel, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, it is clear that there are class differences between all of the characters. Throughout both the story and Tim Burton’s movie, Alice In Wonderland, there are stereotypes and hidden messages about class struggles. For the most part, the higher class is ultimately superior and the lower class is inferior. In Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and in the movie, the higher class is made fun of and ridiculed senselessly. Lewis Carroll portrayed

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    People often perceive the truth in numerous ways. Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrates this as one of the many themes in the novel. Carroll a very intelligent man, often known by his real name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. At the age of twelve, he attended Richmond Grammar School a well known public school. Most of his publications included math books. Dodgson came from a family with eight younger siblings, which enabled him to develop the knack of amusing young

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