Good And Evil In Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars

In the book The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, Wonderland changes. The fight between Good and Evil starts when Redd attacks. Alyss escapes Redd without her knowing that she is gone. Redd believes she has one once and for all when all of a sudden Alyss appears alive in Wonderland and is growing in strength and comes to reclaim her queendom. By having Alyss come back years later Beddor shows how in good vs. evil good will always come back and beat evil. Beddor shows this when Alyss first leaves evil won, when Alyss comes back she sees that Redd has destroyed everything but Alyss had grown in power and nor evil or good was winning. But Alyss faces Redd for the final time to stop her reign and she defeats Redd and the good side won. A sign of good vs. evil is when Alyss first leaves and Redd rules. When Alyss went into the Pool of Tears first, the Cat was supposed to kill her but she made it into the pool safely. A tree in the woods said,“‘You let them get away,’ a voice said.”(86). During the time when Alyss wasn’t in Wonderland Redd had been ruling, a rebel team called the

He did it because, “‘She’s destroyed everything,’ Dodge said. Resignation to the past, defiance of the present, hope for the future--Alyss felt them all at once. ‘Not everything,’ she said. Not if she had hope.”(248) She had seen her castle and home in ruins and then she was ready for revenge. She looked to her friends Dodge, Bibwit, Hatter, General Doppelganger, and the Rook. They needed Alyss to get to the Valley of Mushrooms where the caterpillars are and they would get the answer to where the entrance of the Looking Glass Maze is but they are being chased until they finally make it there. The caterpillar said, “‘You seek the Looking Glass Maze, as your mother did before you.’”(284) They continue to search for it getting closer and closer. Neither good or evil prevailed this