In The Looking Glass Wars, Frank Beddor uses conflict to transform Alyss from a naïve, mischievous, and endearing little girl into an imaginative, disciplined, and confident young woman so that she could lead the Alyssians in an attempt to defeat Redd and take back her queendom. Alyss starts off the book as a seven-year old girl about to start training to become queen some day. Towards the end of the book Alyss will conquer the Looking Glass Maze and go on to defeat Redd. The reader will understand how Alyss goes from a mischievous, naïve, and endearing little girl to a more naïve and endearing teenager. And last the reader will learn how Alyss became an imaginative and disciplined young woman after she sacrificed herself for he friends. …show more content…
While in the Looking Glass Maze Alyss discovers, “Control and power aren’t everything”, Alyss learned that after she gained more control and used more of her imaginative things to defeat the Hatters in the maze (Beddor 312). In most battles the team that thinks more outside the box and has the will to succeed, such as Alyss did, usually come out on top. Alyss thought more outside the box and used more imagination to defeat, and all Redd had was power and control she didn’t have the imagination that Alyss had. Alyss used her brains in a way that Redd’s brawn wouldn’t be enough to overpower the brain of Alyss. Alyss changed throughout the story and she would eventually change into the imaginative, disciplined, and confident young woman she needed to be to defeat Redd. Alyss is still and endearing person to many, but who could hate her. Redd was such a fool to think that she could beat Alyss. Alyss’s conflict with Dodgeson and Redd among others helped her transform and defeat Redd and ascend to the top to become queen. Their should be no doubt that Alyss’s transformation throughout the book was for the
In Frank Beddor’s book The Looking Glass Wars it retells the story of Alice in Wonderland and makes it its own new book. In this version, Alyss is the princess of Wonderland, but when her Aunt Redd who was banished from the Queendom attacks Wonderland and makes everything evil Alyss must run away with Hatter Madigan. After she ran away from Wonderland when she was seven she ended up in England. After she made it back from England she returned to Wonderland to fight Redd and her army. In this book Beddor provides many themes throughout the book that mean a lot to the characters and how they act. For example, good conquers all is evident from the actions of Genevieve, Alyss, and Hatter Madigan.
Is it true Americans are rightfully notorious for creating inaccurate paradigms of what really happened in historical events Americans are tied to? Has America ever censored historical events in order to protect Americans innocent democratic reputation? After reading, “The Best War Ever” by Michael C.C Adams, I have found the answers to these questions to be yes. Some of the myths that Adams addresses in his book include: 1. America was innocent in world war two and was an ever acting protagonist in the war; 2. World war two or any war for that matter can be, or is a “good war” and bring prosperity to America; 3. War world two brought unity to Americans.
Alyss has changed and transformed throughout this novel. Alyss was introduced as a mischievous little girl playing pranks. Throughout the novel she learns how to become a strong proper young lady. Alyss went through many obstacles to prepare her for battle. In The Looking Glass Wars, Frank Beddor uses conflict to transform a naive, mischievous, and endearing little girl into a confident, leading, and boss so she can save the queendom from Redd’s rule.
Throughout the book Alyce proves to be a very empathetic and caring young girl. One of the times Alyce shows her empathy, the Midwife was trying to help a woman give birth, but the lady was having some trouble and Jane tried so much that in the end she just gave up to go help someone else she knew would pay her more, deciding to abandon the woman who was in need of help. Alyce decided that it wasn’t fair, and that a lady shouldn’t be left like that when she needed help, “The memory of the proud, frightened, Joan of a moment ago kept her there. And she asked herself, What would the midwife so if she were here? … Alyce took a deep breath and returned to Joan’s side” (59), so she decided to help Joan even though the midwife was too selfish to do so. Alyce also respects the people who don’t respect her, so when the village boys that had recently stopped teasing her were doing something that would have definitely gotten them in trouble if the midwife had seen them, she knew they’d have been in trouble so she went up to the midwife and talked to her to hold her off so the boys could get away. Alyce likes helping people that need help when no one else will help them, for example when she’s found a job at an inn after she’s given up her career as a midwife’s apprentice and a few people ride to the inn asking for help because they claim the lord’s wife is being eaten by a stomach worm but Alyce immediately realizes the lady is pregnant and decides to help her even though she’s a bit uncertain at first because of her recent failure.
In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as irresponsible, immature, and silly. On Alyss’s seventh birthday, she is now eligible to become queen. Bibwit tells her, “The position comes with tremendous responsibilities.”, but she doesn’t seem to care. (Beddor 25) Instead, she plays pranks on everyone and does not take her responsibility as queen seriously.
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.
In The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, the story of alice in wonderland is modified and changed to where Alyss is the Princess of Wonderland, who is forced to leave wonderland when her evil Aunt Redd takes over and kills alyss’ parents. When hatter madigan and alyss are separated in the pool of tears, Alyss ends up alone in England. Eventually returning to take back her throne. When changing the story he developed new themes like how Dodge, Jack of Diamonds, and Alyss can not stay children forever.
Until we can learn from our mistakes we are doomed to repeat history. Many historians feel that without knowledge of the past can prevent future conflicts and events from taking the same course of events. This statement is true for the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War occurred before in the form of the American Revolution. In order to understand the validity of that statement one must understand the French and foreign influences, the might of the British and United States, how the wars were fought, geography, and politics used in both wars. By understanding these one can come up with a working definition of revolution and the similarities between the two conflicts which span over 150 years between the two.
When Alyss was a young girl in the novel she was characterized as maturing, rebellious, and mischievous because of the things she liked to do. She was described as maturing because of something that happened to her when she came to this dimension. By being in the real world she matured by learning the “...struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all it’s guise.”(Beddor 102) By living as a homeless orphan with a small group of kids. Along with learning that she would soon learn that “...even to survive-let alone survive with dignity-is heroic.”(Beddor 102) She will learn this by giving into peer pressure because people were
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
One of them even said, “‘If we are successful against Redd, no one can say that our success is without sacrifice. But I sometimes wonder if it has required too much of us.’” (302) Alyss used her imagination to defeat Redd and defeated her for the good of the kingdom, not revenge. After Redd’s rule was over, Alyss proclaimed, “‘It will be rebuilt,’ she said. Dodge nodded. ‘No one will be forgotten, Dodge. Not Sir Justice, not the lowliest card soldier, no one.’” (357) Overall, Alyss had gained all of the responsibility she needed in order to be a wonderful ruler of Wonderland. She had gained a lot of responsibility from her adventure and all of her responsibility was
In the essay "Worldviews in Conflict," Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey compare and contrast the ideas of Christianity and the views of today's society. Throughout the essay they provide information about how the changes in society affect views regarding Christianity. Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcy's essay was written to contribute information so others could understand their views about the shifting cultural context and how it affects society's beliefs.
...ities. Love is a long hard road and cannot be reached by taking a straight, clear-cut path. Even though throughout the scene Hermia and Lysander are in constant conflict, a resolution is eventually reached. Hermia and Lysander remain in love, proving that true love can prevail.
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One of the biggest questions plaguing most political theorist is what will be the source for future conflict in this increasingly globalized world. Samuel Huntington a prominent political scientist in the U.S tried to answer this question in 1996 when he published the “Clash of Civilizations” which discusses the primary source of future global conflicts. In it he mentions religion and cultural differences as being the main source of conflict in the post cold war world. In evaluating Huntington’s theory you must evaluate modern conflicts and global issues of the present and compare them to the ideas held in his theory to see if his beliefs hold up to the substantial weight of the evidence. In critiquing Huntington’s argument you must also be