In Frank Beddor’s book The Looking Glass Wars, the tale of Alice in Wonderland is told from the perspective of Princess Alyss Heart. She is forced to evacuate from her home because of her evil aunt Redd’s attack on the queendom and ends up alone in London, but is found and brought back to the queendom to take her spot as the queen. Beddor provides many different themes that go on throughout the book, and one of them is “don’t give up hope”. Evidence of this being a theme is proved by the actions of Dodge Anders, Hatter Madigan, and Alyss Heart in many different situations in the book. One character who didn’t give up hope throughout book is Dodge Anders. Dodge is forced to watch his father get killed in battle and stays to help the queendom …show more content…
recover. He helps out at a camp where they live. Hatter returns with the news that Princess Alyss Heart is alive and is old enough to come back to Wonderland and be the queen. “Again, she felt the tug of a long-buried affection for one who… she would not allow herself to think of him. She had to be realistic.”Dodge never thought he would see Alyss Heart again. Although Dodge never said it but “he had long ceased to be surprised by negative twists of fate. But Princess Alyss alive? Hatter Madigan returned to Wonderland through the Pool of Tears?.” Dodge goes to find Alyss at her wedding to rescue her.“He hadn’t known what to expect when he found the princess: perhaps a young woman not quite ready to fulfil her destiny, a woman who would need convincing of her own powers, in whom the bravery of a warrior queen was not yet second nature, but he hadn’t expected this.” Her wedding is crashed by Redd’s army and Dodge defends Alyss keeping her safe. They flee back to Wonderland and go to there Alyssian camp. Dodge showed the theme don’t give up hope by staying at the camp for years waiting to get the chance to see Alyss and he helped out around the camp and saved Alyss. Alyss Heart, the main character of the book also shows the theme don’t give up hope.
Alyss’s parents are killed by Redd’s evil army, her father King Nolan was ambushed by Redd’s troops led by her best fighter the Cat and her mother Queen Genevieve was killed by Redd. Alyss was forced to flee Wonderland through the Pool of Tears. She ends up in London and meets a man named Leopold. Leopold proposes to Alyss and she says yes. Whenever she talks about Wonderland they just make fun of her. She said “I had to turn my back on Wonderland.” But on her wedding day she sees Dodge and notices the scar on his face and realizes it’s him. Redd’s troops attack and Dodge defends Alyss and they flee back to Wonderland through the Pool of Tears. She led an army to attack Redd and her forces but they didn’t know if she was capable of leading them. They were all asking “‘But can she lead …show more content…
us?’” but she proved them wrong and won against Redd. That is why Alyss shows the theme don’t give up hope. The final of the three characters that show the theme don’t give up hope in the book is Hatter Madigan.
Hatter was Queen Genevieve’s bodyguard but when Redd attacked she told him to leave him behind and protect Alyss. Hatter jumped into the Pool of Tears with “Alyss Heart, holding tight to Hatter Madigan, plummeted toward the surface of the water below.” and ended up in Paris while Alyss ended up in London. For the next few years he searched for Alyss non stop crossing the world. “He planned to canvass the streets, search every lane and alley for the princess before moving on to another town or city.” He finally got a lead on where she was when Dodge Anders published his book Alice in Wonderland. Hatter traveled to where Alyss was and was so close to finding her but he was ambushed chased into an alley with a dead end where a puddle leading to the Pool of Tears was. He was forced to jump and ended up in Wonderland where he delivered the news that Alyss was alive and old enough to be the queen. Hatter was injured from a bullet wound so Dodge went to go rescue Alyss. Hatter helped around camp. When Alyss came back she led an army and defeated Redd with the help of the Alyssian’s including Hatter himself. This is why Hatter Madigan shows the theme don’t give up
hope. Many characters don’t give up hope, including Dodge, Alyss, and Hatter. Dodge sacrifices his life many times helping the Alyssian’s, saves Alyss, and avenges his father. Alyss waits for years to go back to Wonderland, she sacrifices her life to save the Queendom and all of Wonderland by becoming the Warrior Queen. Hatter forfeits years of his life searching every city and town in the world looking for Alyss. The theme of not giving up hope show the reader that if you give up hope you’re giving up what you want. If Hatter Madigan gave up hope he would have never found Alyss. If Dodge gave up hope he never would have never seen Alyss again, the Alyssians would have been defeated, and he would have never avenged his father. And if Alyss would have given up hope the whole queendom would have been ruled by Redd forever and Wonderland would never have been the same again. That is why you should never give up hope.
“‘It makes no difference if I’m alive or dead except as it concerns the princess.’” I chose this quote because it is showing how Hatter would risk everything to save the princess which can kill Redd. “He hadn’t known what to expect when he found the princess: perhaps a young woman not quite ready to fulfil her destiny, a woman who would need convincing of her own powers, in whom the bravery of a warrior queen was not yet second nature, but he hadn’t expected this.” In this quote he was going to save Alyss for good and he didn’t what to expect. Also he wanted to save because he knew how to get back to wonderland. This is how Hatter was a part in the theme of good will conquer all.
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Alyss concludes, “This marriage would please her mother, for her family’s sake” (Beddor 171). Alyss acts as a people pleaser when she accepts Leopold’s proposal. She doesn’t love Leopold, but accepts his proposal only to make her mother happy. Alyss has decided to no longer stand out and become like “every women” (Beddor 191). Alyss desires to conform and submit to ideas of society. She becomes normal and no longer stands out like odd Alyss. Mrs. Liddell exclaims “ The dress she had purchased months before, but which Alyss had always refused to wear it because she feared it would make her look normal”, Alyss now wears it ( Beddor 151). Alyss starts to dress like everyone in England. She no longer looks like a former Wonderlander, but becomes by all appearances a proper young
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In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as irresponsible, immature, and silly. On Alyss’s seventh birthday, she is now eligible to become queen. Bibwit tells her, “The position comes with tremendous responsibilities.”, but she doesn’t seem to care. (Beddor 25) Instead, she plays pranks on everyone and does not take her responsibility as queen seriously.
One of the characters that shows his loyalty to the queendom is Hatter Madigan. At the beginning of the story Hatter Madigan jumps into the pool of tears with Alyss to save them from the cat. “Alyss Heart holding tight to Hatter Madigan, plummeted toward the surface of the water below.” This quote represents Hatter jumping into the pool of tears to save Alyss’ life. “Hatter bowed his head.
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