Trail Of Changes In 'Alice In Wonderland'

Krista Adkins
Phillips/Cline
World Histories and Voices
21 November 2014 Trail of Changes Experiencing a journey can cause you to come back a completely different person than you were going into it. No matter how long the journey, a few days or just a couple hours, that person you were yesterday is gone. Depending on the type of journey you experience, you can become more thankful and appreciative, or you may come out with more confidence, or maybe it can give you a better insight on the world, or possibly all three. Not only can the journey change the person, but the person can change the route along their way. The novel, “Alice in Wonderland” shows how a journey can change a person in many different ways. One being, that it opens your eyes to the big picture, and sometimes it takes another person to show you that picture. The Caterpillar was that mentor for Alice. He first helped her by telling her that she could get back her height by eating the mushroom. He said “One side will make you taller and the other side will make you shorter.”(Carroll 43) The caterpillar also gave Alice a new perspective and helped her discover who she really is. “Who are you?” said the Caterpillar, “I—I hardly know sir, just at the present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I most have changed several times since

Favorably, in Alice’s case, it was for the better. She became a more confident, appreciative, and open-minded individual from her experiences and mistakes in Wonderland. She even said herself, “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”(Carroll) Experiences like that don’t last for a lifetime, but the memory of them does. However, the person isn’t the only thing changed. The route also twists and turns along the way. A journey can really change a person, but that person always leaves their mark behind on the route they