The Story Of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

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As a child I identified with a little blond girl named Alice from C. S. Lewis’ “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland”. One of the reasons is that I she had lots of adventures with strange, new people and I felt like that at times since my father was in the United States Army and we moved often and travelled a great deal. I admired the way that Alice could handle nearly any situation that she found herself in even if she was overwhelmed at first and that she got to meet interesting characters along the way. I also liked the white rabbit since I had a pet rabbit all through my childhood. Here is a synopsis of the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In 19th century Victorian England a girl named Alice is outside one day when she sees a white rabbit with a pocket watch. Intrigued by the rabbit, Alice follows it down a rabbit hole where she is introduced to a magical underland. After falling for a long time, she lands in a room with a tiny door. She finds a key on a table that unlocks this door which she opens and sees a garden on the other side. Alice sees a bottle with the words Drink Me and a cake with the words Eat Me. She does what the signs say and her size changes drastically. First, she grows very large and then she shrinks to a very small size. Her size keeps changing and she is either too small to reach the key or too large to fit through the door. Next, she slips in a pool when she is tiny which is made up of her tears that she shed when she was very large. She swims to shore and finds herself in the woods where she meets up with the White Rabbit. He thinks she is …show more content…

There are many symbols used in this story such as the size changes that Alice experiences, games, and time. Other symbols are the animals such as the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, the caterpillar, and the pig. The Mad Hatter, the Red Queen, and the child who turns into a pig are characters in the story that also serve as

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