Wondering in Wonderland

         All these pictures and words are very important to the novel because they all represent and/or show the main characters(some including the setting), the setting(s), the themes, and the situations Alice found herself in. The main characters are Alice, the White Rabbit, the Caterpillar, the Queen of Hearts, the King of Hearts, the cards (Two, Five, and Seven), the Mock Turtle, the Cheshire Cat, the Gryphon, the Hatter, the March Hare, the Duchess, and Alice's sister. The setting was based on our 'real' world and it was also in Wonderland based on Alice's dream.

         In Alice's dream, the first setting she appeared to go was down a rabbit hole where she met the first main character, the White Rabbit. The White Rabbit was very important to the story because he was the one who led Alice into the rabbit hole and that's how it all started. Alice then met another main character and it was the caterpillar. When Alice met the caterpillar, it was sitting on a mushroom while smoking a hookah. He actually tricked Alice by telling her that if she went on one side of the mushroom she would get smaller, and if she went on the other side she would get bigger. Apparently she was bigger only on some parts of her body. Though the caterpillar, didn't really help Alice with her size, it did teach her to adapt to things just like it does. The next main character was the Duchess. The setting when Alice met her was in her house. Alice liked the Duchess because she liked to find morals in everything, just like Alice. What Alice didn't like from the Duchess was that she treated her baby really bad. That was when Alice decided to take the baby, and Alice then met another main character. That main character was the Cheshire Cat. The Cheshire Cat is able to disappear and reappear at any time. In chapter 7, we met two other main characters which were the Hatter and the March Hare. Alice met them while they were having the Mad Tea Party, and they were also witnesses at the trial ,with Alice, later in the story. Alice then enters a beautiful garden and that is where she met the next main characters which were the playing cards(Two, Five, and Seven). They were blaming each other for painting the roses wrong. That was the first time Alice heard a negative thing about Alice because they said that they would go 'off with their heads'. From there, the Queen appeared and she was in a very bad mood. She was an important character in the story because she is the main ruler of Wonderland. Alice had to follow her orders in order for her not to get killed at the end of the story. In that same chapter , Alice met the king. He was important in the story because he was the only one who could have done something about the Queen being so harsh, but he never did anything. If the king were to stop the Queen from being so strict, there wouldnt be so much caos, and there also wouldn't be so much dead people. After so much that Alice had been through, she meet the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle. I find them being very important because they were the only ones who were actually friends with Alice. The last main character was Alice's sister because she was the one who woke up Alice from her dream. If she wouldn't have, we would have known what really happened with Alice at the end of her dream.

        There were also six words(themes) that I thought represented the novel. Those words are imagination, consequences, childhood, nature, curiosity, and innocence. Alice's imagination was able to take her to Wonderland. Without all of her imagination, there wouldn't be so much interesting things put into it. The next word that represented the novel was 'consequences' because everything that she did led her to something else. Whatever she did would always affect her later on in the story. Childhood has a lot to do with the novel because it showed a lot of who Alice was. She was different because she thought differently since she was a child/kid. I found 'nature' to be an important word because the whole setting was based on nature. Alice was surrounded by trees and plants. Curiosity was very important in the novel because if Alice wouldn't have been curious, she probably wouldn't go in the rabbit hole, and none of what happened would have happened. The last word I chose was innocence because Alice's innocence was how everything happened. If she wasn't innocent, her dream would be very different because she wouldn't have taken the same choices.