Summary Of The Book Alice s Adventures - 1779 Words

Samuel English Mr. Poetzinger Freshman Honors English 25th, January 2015 Alice’s not so Wonderful Adventure in Wonderland In the novel, â€Å"Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland† written by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), a young teenager in the midst of the transition between childhood and becoming an adult stumbles around in a very confusing world. Alice goes through a variety of absurd physical changes. The discomfort she feels at never being the right size acts as a symbol for the changes that occur during puberty. Alice finds these changes to be traumatic, and feels discomfort, frustration, and sadness when she goes through them. She struggles to†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬Å"Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? ‘I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?’ she said aloud. ‘I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think—’ (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) ‘—yes, that’s about the right distance—but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?’ (Alice had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but she thought they were nice grand words to say.)† (PG. 2-3) This explains how education was, and how facts were cherished much more so than actually being able to apply the things that one would learn. In this specific portion of the text, Alice tries to recall the Longitude and Latitude of where she could possibly be. Dodgson actually mocked the education system in the 1860’s. Back then, you would simply be rewarded by memorizing facts and terms, not actually learning concepts that you would be able to use in life. Alice doesn’t even know what Latitude and Longitude mean, she just knows that they are advanced vocabu lary and when she says them she is patted on the head and people say, â€Å"Good girl!†. Just the whole ideals of adults at that time, and their expectations were all just