I spent two months reading this classic tale of a young girl who went through different odd-ventures in wonderland. Yes, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland took me quite sometime to finish with the whole story since I have to juggle reading with work, video games, internet surfing and among other things. I don’t normally just sit down and grab a book like most people who dedicate their lives into the four corners of every book they read. Though I find this book a little bit inappropriate for my age, I still find Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland interesting and entertaining; one good subject to enhance my vivid imagination.

Side bits About this Book

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is generally known as Alice in Wonderland because most film and television adaptations were using the said title, instead of its original name. The novel was originally written by an English author Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carrol in 1865 for a 10-year old girl named Alice Liddell, daughter of Henry George Liddell, the Vice-chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church. Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson together with Reverend Robinson Duckworth met Alice with her sisters three years before the book was written. On their journey with the girls, Reverend Dodgson told the story about a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for some adventures. The girls loved it and Alice Pleasance Liddell asked Dodgson to write it down for her and on November 26, 1864, he gave Alice the handwritten manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, with illustrations by Dodgson himself. Hence, the story of the little girl Alice and her adventures was finally published in 1865 carrying the title of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by “Lewis Carroll” with illustrations by John Tenniel.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | The Synopsis

Little Alice is getting very bored while sitting with her sister who is reading a book by the riverbank. While trying to sneak a look on the book that which her sister is reading she thought of how useless it is since it doesn’t contain any pictures and conversations at all. The hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid so she was considering on whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up when suddenly a White Rabbit with a pink eyes caught her attention. The White Rabbit is running late, who actually took a watch out of his waistcoat-pocket. She hurriedly followed the rabbit until she fell down on a rabbit hole and when she hits the bottom, she finds herself standing in a peculiar room with locked doors of different sizes. Alice notice a small door that leads to a beautiful garden but her current size won’t fit through. When she saw a bottle at the table which is labeled “DRINK ME”, she drinks it and it causes her to shrink enough to fit through the small door. But regrettably, she left the key high above the table; just when she finds a cake under the table with the words “EAT ME” on it. She ate it and the cake makes her grow so tall that her head struck against the roof of the hall. And because she got all frustrated for what she’s been going through, she began to cry and this causes a large pool all around her. When the White Rabbit returns he was startled at Alice that he drops the gloves and the fan he is holding. When Alice took the fan and the gloves and started fanning herself for the hall was very hot, she began to shrink. Alice swims through her own tears and meet a Mouse, who is also swimming on the pool of tears. She started a small talk but could only say something about her cat Dinah, which just offends the poor little mouse. And soon this pool of tears becomes crowded with animals and they all swim to shore and talks about how to dry again. A Dodo suggested for a Caucus-Race and Alice gave the winners some sugar coated sweets. And they ended up talking about her cat which causes a remarkable sensation among the animals.

When the White Rabbit appears again, he asked Alice to go back to his house and get his gloves and fan. When she finds another bottle and drinks from it, she grows so large that she has to stick one arm out of the window and her foot up the chimney. Outside she hears the animals talking and the next thing she knew, they were throwing pebbles at her which turns into little cakes. When she ate it, she began shrinking, then she went out running till she finds herself in a thick woods. And there she met an enormous puppy with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her.

Moving on to her adventure, she came upon a mushroom and sitting on it is a Caterpillar smoking a long hookah, wherein she was asked with questions that which makes her admits to her current identity crisis. She was even called a serpent by a pigeon when she shrunk too much that she thought her arms and shoulders were gone and she seemed to rise like a stalk out of sea of green leaves.

Then she met an odd looking footman and called it Fish-Footman. The Fish-footman carried an invitation for the Duchess of the house to play croquet, of which he delivers to a Frog-Footman. She enters the Duchess’ house and welcomes herself. She saw the Duchess cook and is throwing dishes and making soup which has too much pepper that which causes Alice, the Duchess and her baby to sneeze violently. The Duchess flings the baby to Alice and let her nurse it a bit while she leaves to play croquet with the Queen.

Stirring on, Alice bumped into a tea party with the March Hare, the Hatter and the Dormhouse. The conversation began rolling; Alice was all the more insulted with all the riddles, stories and remarks of the three beings. So, she left and picked her way through the woods while saying that it was the stupidest tea party that she had ever been to.

To continue with her adventures, she met the King and Queen of Hearts and was asked to play croquet with them. As the game of croquet begins, with flamingos as the mallets and hedgehogs as the balls, the Queen charges more people to death. Then she met a Gryphon who takes her to the Mock Turtle. The Mock Turtle tries to tell her a story about how he used to be a real turtle in school and so on until the Gryphon drags her away for an awaiting trial about a stolen tarts. After her arguments with the King and Queen of Hearts during the ridiculous proceedings, the Queen ordered to behead Alice but the brave Alice wasn’t frightened at all, calling them out as nothing but just a pack of cards. Then Alice’s sister wakes her up and told her she has a long sleep while brushing gently some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face.

“Be what you would seem to be”–or if you’d like it put

more simply–“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than

what it might appear to others that what you were or might have

been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared

to them to be otherwise.”

Scanning through the book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland comprises lots of morals, life’s lessons and enchanting courage; the guts to face reality and the daring act of just being yourself and believe in your dreams and what you are capable of. The true beauty and wonders is not measure by what we see thru our naked eyes but what we reckon it to be inside our heart.