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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
5.0
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
First published in 1865
Published in Puffin Books 1946
Reissued in this edition 2014
Novel
Summary
The story follows Alice, a young girl living in Vicorian era England. One day she is lying on the grass next to her reading sister. She begins to dissapear into a very peculiar dream. She follows a white rabbit into a rabbit hole and ends up falling down into “what must be the centre of the earth”. She has all sorts of adventures with the various strange creatures in Wonderland. Mad Hatter, Caterpillar, Red Queen of Hearts, Cheshire Cat, March Hare, Mock Turtle. All incredibly strange indescribable characters. Though I will try to give a description nevertheless. Red Queen of Hearts is the ruthless ruler of the rigorous authoritarian regime that has Wonderland in its grasp, you could say her hobby is having people beheaded. Mad Hatter and March Hare have both been cursed to having an eternal tea party. Caterpillar is a shisha-smoking, you guessed it, caterpillar that gives Alice some advice. Cheshire Cat is a cat that dissappears and reappears on its own accord, Alice builds up some kind of quasi-friendship with him. Then we have Mock Turtle, a sulky half turtle half cow that likes to tell people about his history and is about to be turned into Mock Turtle soup. I think Mock Turtle is my absolute favourite character in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I absolutely adored this book. I might have shed a quick tear at the note at the end, featuring an almost Shakespearian view of childhood and the inevitability of growing up. That note elevated the entire book for me. This book doesn’t have a plot. It is, in Lewis Carroll’s own words, “nonsense”.
Assignment
Creative Writing: write a diary entry for Mock Turtle.
Dear Diary,
You must know by now that I have been cursed. I might have mentioned it in every single diary entry so far. I’m truly sorry you have to deal with me being melancholy all the time. It’s just hard knowing that you got robbed of the perfect turtle life. I’m half cow and half turtle for Goodness sake. An abomination! And, ‘better yet’, I’m about to be turned into a bloomin’ soup! The only thing I can do for the time being is tell people about my history, maybe it’ll prevent this from happening to another innocent little turtle.
Love,
(Mock) Turtle
First published in 1865
Published in Puffin Books 1946
Reissued in this edition 2014
Novel
Summary
The story follows Alice, a young girl living in Vicorian era England. One day she is lying on the grass next to her reading sister. She begins to dissapear into a very peculiar dream. She follows a white rabbit into a rabbit hole and ends up falling down into “what must be the centre of the earth”. She has all sorts of adventures with the various strange creatures in Wonderland. Mad Hatter, Caterpillar, Red Queen of Hearts, Cheshire Cat, March Hare, Mock Turtle. All incredibly strange indescribable characters. Though I will try to give a description nevertheless. Red Queen of Hearts is the ruthless ruler of the rigorous authoritarian regime that has Wonderland in its grasp, you could say her hobby is having people beheaded. Mad Hatter and March Hare have both been cursed to having an eternal tea party. Caterpillar is a shisha-smoking, you guessed it, caterpillar that gives Alice some advice. Cheshire Cat is a cat that dissappears and reappears on its own accord, Alice builds up some kind of quasi-friendship with him. Then we have Mock Turtle, a sulky half turtle half cow that likes to tell people about his history and is about to be turned into Mock Turtle soup. I think Mock Turtle is my absolute favourite character in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I absolutely adored this book. I might have shed a quick tear at the note at the end, featuring an almost Shakespearian view of childhood and the inevitability of growing up. That note elevated the entire book for me. This book doesn’t have a plot. It is, in Lewis Carroll’s own words, “nonsense”.
Assignment
Creative Writing: write a diary entry for Mock Turtle.
Dear Diary,
You must know by now that I have been cursed. I might have mentioned it in every single diary entry so far. I’m truly sorry you have to deal with me being melancholy all the time. It’s just hard knowing that you got robbed of the perfect turtle life. I’m half cow and half turtle for Goodness sake. An abomination! And, ‘better yet’, I’m about to be turned into a bloomin’ soup! The only thing I can do for the time being is tell people about my history, maybe it’ll prevent this from happening to another innocent little turtle.
Love,
(Mock) Turtle