Reading Log-Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

How does the text relate to the theme of a journey?

The text narrates about the journey of Alice in Wonderland. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland represents the child's struggle to survive in the confusing world of adults. To understand our adult world, Alice has to overcome the open-mindedness that is characteristic for children. In Wonderland, she encounters a way of living and reasoning that is quite different from her own. But during the journey through Wonderland, Alice learns to understand the adult world somewhat more. She goes to many different places and meets many characters with weird behaviour, for example, Mad Hatter and March Hare. In fact, she is growing up. This is also represented by her physical changes during the story, the growing and shrinking. At the end of the story, the journey in Wonderland is only a dream but that dream seems so real for her and gave her many good morals in life.

What is the main issue in the text?

The main issue is the behaviour of the characters that Alice meets in Wonderland. They try to baffle her, confuse her, order her about and even behead her. Even the ones who are not directly mean to her are antagonists, as their strange behaviour confuses Alice. Conflict is happening every time Alice meets a new character and is being confronted with its strange rules and behaviour. During the trial, when Alice is called to give evidence. She calls the creatures by their name: 'nothing but a pack of cards' and they all come flying down on her in rage.

What quality do you admire or dislike in a character?

I would prefer my disgust for the character the White Rabbit, which is the first Wonderland character, Alice encounters. She follows him when he hurries into his hole and thereby enters Wonderland. The White Rabbit is nervous and always in a hurry. He appears to be late for his job with the Duchess. While walking through Wonderland, Alice comes upon his house where the White Rabbit, still in a hurry, mistakes her for his housemaid Mary Ann, and orders her to get his gloves and a fan. When she grows and gets stuck in the house, the Rabbit orders Pat to get her out. In the end I discover that the White Rabbit is a herald in the Queen of Heart's court. However, he is confident enough about himself to contradict the King of Hearts.

How does the text develop your understanding of the world?

From the main character of the story, Alice and the story told me many things about the imaginary world, Wonderland through a different perspective. Imagination and creativity are unlimited. I understand of what exactly happened during adolescence. It is very important for us to maintain personality. It shows when Alice arrives in Wonderland, she confuses about her identity. The text also shows that we should not change the way we think just because other people acting differently from us. Thus, we need to cope with their ways and respect their ideas and avoid breaking the rules in their places.