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Thesis: my paper will be a critical analysis over the book of Alice in Wonderland and some overview of the author. Through the story of “ Alice in Wonderland “ Alice sees this place as a realm in which she will wake up at any moment and that nothing in this place can hurt her, she sees her surroundings as figments of her imagination, a mirage if you will. As the story gets deeper and deeper in changes and outcomes she defeats incredible feats where the possibility of death is just taking a backseat in her min, but all of a sudden it comes to her attention that death is major outcome in some of the actions that she takes. When she comes to realize what is happening Alice becomes shocked frightened because now she has to change her perception of Wonderland into a real world scenario even though some of the things, actually most of the whole story that occur are so ludicrous that it would completely baffle and awe a normal person in the real world. With this new found perception she knows that she has to keep herself, the creatures, and other people she has connected with in the story alive and safe so her maturity level is also heightened in the fact that she is almost a hero/mother for these creatures and people and that responsibility she is able to accept while also trying to watch herself. When the queen yells “off with its head” even though no one ever dies, or gets their head cut-off” (http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/alice/themes.html) I think that’s when it finally hits home for her so this is just one of the many themes of this story. That death for Alice is a second shadow, a dark mysterious thing taken for granite that has always followed her, but it has taken many things or just one thing for her to realize the serious ... ... middle of paper ... ... giving up his life. So his development was a flat line of a crazy, but kind hearted creature, who would do anything for his friends and queen. The end of the story is just seen as a simple girl waking up from a very confusing, but very life like dream that her sister just looks in a blank stare, because her imagination must not work like that. The end of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland includes one additional scene. After Alice wakes up, she tells her adventures to her sister. Alice herself runs off gleefully, and for a moment the reader is left alone with the sister, recalling all the strange characters and weird happenings of Wonderland. Carroll uses the sister as a guide for the reader, teaching the reader how to appreciate Alice's imagination even while realizing that it's just a fantasy. (http://www.shmoop.com/alice-in-wonderland-looking-glass/ending.html)

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