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This week I read chapters 8 through 12 and I finished the book! During these couple chapters I really got to see Alice's true personality. Even though I did see it throughout the whole book, I think these couple chapters really put Alice in the spotlight. In chapter 9 Alice finally became a Queen, after such a long journey. I was happy that she had finally become the queen because she deserved it considering all she had gone through.
I had been waiting awhile to see if it was truly a dream or not and in chapters 10, 11, and 12 I had finally found my answer. In chapter 10 Alice had begun shaking the queen. I didn't really understand why she was doing that but once I got to chapter 11 I realized why. Here the queen was her kitty! This gave me a clue on whether or not it was a dream. In chapter 12 Alice said to her kitty "You woke me out of oh! such a nice dream!" This one line made me think that it was defiantly a dream but, as I read on the author left me with a question and that question was "Which do you think it was?" After I had thought about it for a little I came up with a conclusion. I believe that you could think either way, it could be a dream but it could be reality. It just depends on your personality and what you believe in. Some could argue that it is indeed a world or another dimension that you can go to, or it could be a world you visit when you are under the influence of either drugs or alcohol. Both of these explanations seem very unrealistic in this situation because Alice was a young girl. I think that it was indeed a dream, it was all just a figment of Alice's childish imagination. It probably was her "dream" world, full of things that are apart of her personality.
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This week I read chapters 3 through 7 of Through the Looking-Glass House. In these chapters Alice faces many conflicts that are associated with the characters that she meets. In chapter 3 I really saw Alice's imagination because I am seeing the bugs that she is imagining and they are quite interesting and crazy-looking. In this chapter I really saw how the land of the looking glass world was laid out. It gave me a better understanding of what to except and envision. As a reader when you're reading a book, it is easier to understand the text when there is an image in your head. For me, this helps a lot because throughout this book, I had a hard time understanding the text and the author really helped me by using imagery in the text. In chapters 4 through 7 is where Alice really runs into the problems and conflicts. She meets many difficult characters and its frustrating as a reader because Alice is making sense when she is talking to them but they aren't able to comprehend what she is saying and it gets annoying. This is another thing I struggled with while reading the book. Luckily though, with all of the conflicts that she had she was able to find a way out of them and that gave me a sense of relief. I only have a couple more chapters to go, and I am really eager to see how the story ends. By this point I am asking myself a couple of questions. One very important question that I have is; Is it all a dream? Hopefully I will find an answer to that question in the next few chapters. This week I read the last two chapters of the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland portion of the book and the first two chapters of the Looking Glass section. In chapters eleven through twelve Alice meets many new friends, but along with meeting new friends she does run into some conflict. She is accused of stealing the tarts while she is in court. As a reader this made me wonder, did Alice really steal the tarts? This turned the book into a short little mystery because I didn't know what was going to happen next and I was excited to see how Alice was going to defend herself against these accusations. At the end of chapter twelve, I found out how she defended herself. It was quite exciting because a lot happened during this time. She first tipped over the jury box, and then the pack of "warrior" cards flew down on to her and basically attacked her. Both of these actions were very unexpected and it threw me through a loop hole!
The first two chapters of the Through the Looking Glass portion of the book, I was quite confused. At first I really wasn't sure what was going on. That was until I really analyzed it and then I understood. Once I understood the basic plot of what was happening then it had became quite interesting. She envisioned herself in this imaginary world where her cats were portrayed as chess and most everything was backwards. Both of these chapters I thought were really interesting because as a reader you really saw Alice's imagination in full effect. |
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