Alice's Adventures:Chapter 1

"...She did not like to drop the jar, for fear of killing someone underneath..." Pg.2

(E) I believe the author is trying to let the readers know that Alice is still very young and childish. She acknowledges that falling down the rabbit hole was odd, yet she makes assumptions like this. This also shows that Alice is a Considerate girl when not really needded. She has no idea what lies below her so she takes precautions, which is the correct approach in her situation. As a kid she really isn't too shocked on what was happening. She goes along with the nonsense and creates her own nonsense as she goes. Which was just the way as a kid, she took her situation.

"...For this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people..." Pg.7

(R) Alice obviously has lots of time to her own. When a creative kid like Alice does not have anyone to share creativity with, they only have themselves to do so. She does not have many people to talk, or maybe even none to talk to, so she has pretty much created her own friend. She points out all the nonsense without really realizing her own nonsense, a common thing children do. She uses this other imaginary person to tell her basic things like, what's right from wrong or what she should do in a certain situation. She has imagined her own parental figure. Evidently because she does not have, or in her opinion, a good parental figure.