Looking Glass Wars Character Analysis

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Teenagers and young adults go through a lot of changes in their life sometimes good and sometimes bad. Their personality depends on who they are around and where they live. Authors can use certain literary techniques to signal these changes that are happening in the character. Beddor illustrates in the Looking Glass Wars how these changes are important to what someone will do with their life. In the Looking Glass Wars, Beddor uses diction, imagery, and details to show how the main character, Alyss is changing.

In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as bratty, imaginative, and a little too playful. She said to Bibwit Harte, “I won’t need any lessons” (Beddor 25). She thinks she is too smart for Bibwit and already knows everything. Alyss …show more content…

Alyss gets mad at Dodgson “‘You’re the cruelest man I’ve ever met, Mr. Dodgson, and if you had believed a single word I told you, you’d know how very cruel that is.’” (Beddor 87). After Dodgson mixed up Alyss’ story she got really mad at him and ran off. She also never wants to talk to Dodgson again because of what he did. Beddor describes Alyss maturing “‘You’re wearing the dress,’ Mrs. Liddell said. The dress she had purchased months before, but which Alyss had always refused to wear because she feared it would make her appear common.” (Beddor 90). Alyss has started to wear her dress even though it makes her look common. She has started to mature and not fight about everything. Beddor characterizes Alyss as beautiful “‘And her beauty… yes, her beauty was undeniable.’” (Beddor 96). Leopold is thinking she is beautiful during an outdoor concert. Alyss is very beautiful and everyone around her knows it. Alyss has come a long way by succumbing to her feelings, becoming more mature, and being beautiful, but she still needs to realize that Redd is powerful and it is going to take a lot of power to destroy

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