Growing Up And Life Lessons In Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland

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By looking at Alice in Wonderland, one can see that Lewis Carroll included the themes of growing up and life lessons because he was trying to teach the children he watched over real lessons about the real world. He was a man and knew how to communicate with children in a way that made sense to them. we will be looking at what he did and how he is still helping people ahev a great time to this day.
Lewis Carroll had 10 siblings almost all of which were female. he was the second oldest in thefamily and took to rugby quite well. he would later suffer a horrible case of Whooping Cough that would prevent him from playing, kicking him out of his prime like a tiny injured bird. However all was not in vain as before he lost the use of his rugby playing …show more content…

and both his and Alice’s accounts state that it was a perfectly sunny day with good weather and cool temperatures. the minute they got home Alice immediately asked Mr. Carroll to write it down for her so that she could read it again. it was only published because it exchanged hands until it finally found its way to a renown publisher who asked him to publish it. the actual story of Alice in Wonderland is quite simple. A young girl is being read to by her older sister and sees a white rabbit wearing an overcoat and a pocket watch. she decides to follow it into Wonderland where she experiences several amazing things such as changes in her height to a talking cat that likes to disappear. how this man came up with this idea is unknown it is known however that he always tried to teach the children a lesson with his stories. and thats exactly what he did here. the beginning is as i said girl, rabbit, wonderland. it is worth mentioning however that as she is falling down into wonderland she notices its more like shes floating down not falling. throughout the begiinning of the book she s not looking for the rabbit like the movie so clearly lies. shes talking to several animals and creatures that have washed up in a pool of her tears. she then scares them away with a story about her cat Dinah. she then proceeds hrough the door that was blocking her path and finds the rabbits

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