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I.INTRODUCTION
1. Title and author
2. Cover
Year : 1865
Page :130
3. Author
6.chapters : 12
Name :
7. Summary
As fascinated by the sight, she follows the rabbit down the hole.
She falls for a long time, and finds herself in a long hallway full of doors.
There is also a key on the table, which unlocks a tiny door; through this
door, she spies a beautiful garden. She longs to get there, but the door
is too small. Soon, she finds a drink with a note that asks her to drink it.
There is later a cake with a note that tells her to eat; Alice uses both, but
she cannot seem to get a handle on things, and is always either too
large to get through the door or too small to reach the key.
While she is tiny, she slips and falls into a pool of water. She
realizes that this little sea is made of tears she cried while a giant. She
swims to shore with a number of animals, most notably a sensitive
mouse, but manages to offend everyone by talking about her cat's ability
to catch birds and mice. Left alone, she goes on through the wood and
runs into the White Rabbit. He mistakes her for his maid and sends her
to fetch some things from his house. While in the White Rabbit's home,
she drinks another potion and becomes too huge to get out through the
door. She eventually finds a little cake which, when eaten, makes her
small again.
The Queen takes Alice to the Gryphon, who in turn takes Alice to
the Mock Turtle. The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle tell Alice bizarre
stories about their school under the sea. The Mock Turtles sings a
melancholy song about turtle soup, and soon afterward the Gryphon
drags Alice off to see the trial of the Knave of Hearts.
The Knave of Hearts has been accused of stealing the tarts of the
Queen of Hearts, but the evidence against him is very bad. Alice is
appalled by the ridiculous proceedings. She also begins to grow larger.
She is soon called to the witness stand; by this time she has grown to
giant size. She refuses to be intimidated by the bad logic of the court
and the bluster of the King and Queen of Hearts. Suddenly, the cards all
rise up and attack her, at which point she wakes up. Her adventures in
Wonderland have all been a fantastic dream.
*The Mad Hatter - A small, impolite hatter who lives in perpetual tea-
time. The Mad Hatter enjoys frustrating Alice.
*The March Hare - The Mad Hatter’s tea-time companion. The March
Hare takes great pleasure in frustrating Alice.
*The Dormouse - The Mad Hatter and March Hare’s companion. The
Dormouse sits at the tea table and drifts in and out of sleep.
*The Mock Turtle - A turtle with the head of a calf. The Mock Turtle is
friendly to Alice but is exceedingly sentimental and self-absorbed.
*The Duck, The Lory, And The Eaglet - Wonderland creatures who
participate in the Caucus race.
*Bill - A lizard who first appears as a servant of the White Rabbit and
later as a juror at the trial. Bill is stupid and ineffectual.
III. PLOT
RISING ACTION : Alice enters the door into a vast garden residing
in Underland. Exploring it, she runs into the White Rabbit, the
Dormouse, Tweedledum, Tweedledee, and the Dodo. The group take
Alice to Absolem the caterpillar, where they consult a calendar like scroll
detailing the every day in Underland known as the Oraculum. Eventually,
on Frabjous day, Alice has to slay the Jabberwocky, but Alice--not
wanting to slay the dragon--attempts to consult them she's not the one.
Absolem comments that Alice is "Not hardly Alice." Before they can
return Alice to her home, the group is ambushed by
the Bandersnatch and cards. The White Rabbit and Uilleam the Dodo
get captured along with several flamingos. Alice, who's pursued by the
Bandersnatch, stands her ground. Mallymkun, the Dormouse, saves
Alice by stabbing out the Bandersnatch's eye, but it manages to scar
Alice's arm. Alice and the Tweedles carry on until the 'Jubjub Bird'
captures the Tweedles.
Meanwhile, The Red Queen screams out in anger that someone stole
her tarts. After finding out it was one of her Frog-Footmen, he is later to
be executed. The Queen informs a Fish-Footman to choke the frog's
children so she can eat them on a meal with caviar. She is informed
by the Knave of Hearts that Alice has returned to Underland, the Red
Queen assigns Bayard Hamar, the Bloodhound, to pursue Alice for his
imprisoned wife and pups, and his own freedom.
The wandering Alice encounters the Cheshire Cat who bandages her
arm and escorts her to the tea party. Alice arrives with Chessur and
meets Tarrant Hightopp, the Mad Hatter, along with Thackery Earwicket,
the March Hare and Mallymkun. Ilosovic Stayne, the Knave of Hearts,
arrives at the tea party. The Hatter quickly shrinks Alice to 6-inches tall
and hides her in a teapot. Tarrant manages to persuade Bayard to not
reveal Alice's location. Bayard leads the Knave and his troops away.
Tarrant begins his journey with Alice on his hat.
On their way, Tarrant tells his sad story on how he lost his clan and the
beginning of the Red Queen's reign known as the Horunvendush Day
with the loss of the Vorpal Sword. The cards begin to approach
cornering Tarrant and Alice at a river and as a last resort, Tarrant throws
his hat with Alice on it across the river. Tarrant is captured without
resistance and Alice decides to sleep under the hat.
Alice runs out to the courtyard but is ambushed by the cards, but the
Bandersnatch breaks free of its chain and escapes with Alice in tow.
Alice arrives at the White Queen's castle, presenting the Vorpal Sword to
the queen. The White Queen then shrinks Alice back down to her
original size. Alice meets once again with Absolem who replies about his
earlier comment that she was not Alice then but is more like Alice now.
Tarrant and Mallymkum are held in a cell near Bayard's wife and pups.
Chessur morths into the cell and wonders if he can have Tarrant's hat
after the execution. On the day of Tarrant and Mallymkun's execution,
the executor severs Tarrant's head but his body disappears with only the
hat floating in the air. Tarrant was substituted by Chessur and the real
Hatter is up with the Red Queen. Tarrant reveals that all of the Red
Queen's followers are phonies and Tarrant makes a speech for all those
willing to rebel against the Bloody Bighead to rise and escape to the
White Queen's side. In retaliation, the Red Queen orders the release of
the Jubjub Bird which terrorizes the people. Tarrant manages to escape
with Mallymkun, the Tweedles, Nivens, and Bayard's wife and pups, and
the Cheshire cat returns his hat and asks Alice how her arm is. The Red
Queen then tells the Knave to prepare the Jabberwock for battle as it is
time to visit her sister.
RESOLUTION :To find a Champion to do battle against the Jabberwock,
many propose but the calendar still shows Alice as the slayer. Alice, not
wanting to fight, runs off into the castle where once again she
encounters Absolem preparing to go into pupa stage. He chats with her,
and Alice finds out that "Underland" is what she mistakenly heard as
"Wonderland" during her first visit. Alice realizes that her dreams were
really memories and Underland does exist. Frabjous day has finally
arrived with both Red and White armies prepared for the epic battle.
Alice dons the armor and Vorpal sword. Both armies arrive at a
chessboard-like battlefield for the battle between Alice and the
Jabberwock. The Jabberwock finally reveals itself to Alice. Alice strikes
first slicing off the Jabberwock's tongue, all while doing so, trying to
reassure herself that it is not a dream. As the battle between Alice and
the Jabberwock carries on, the Jabberwock gains the upper hand.
Tarrant assaults the Jabberwock, leading both armies to battle. Alice
climbs some ruins of a castle and continues to fight the Jabberwock.
Tarrant faces off against the Knave, easily dominating him. Mallymkun
and Bayard are assaulted by the Jubjub bird but it gets crushed by a
catapulted boulder accidentally fired by one of the Red Queen's soldiers.
Alice finds herself grasping the edge of the rabbit hole. She climbs up
and out of the hole and returns to the party. Alice declines Hamish's
proposal, scolds everyone who wanted her to marry him, and chooses to
become his father's apprentice. Alice begins her voyage to China, saying
goodbye to her family. A blue butterfly lands on Alice's shoulder. Alice
smiles and replies, "Hello, Absolem." Absolem then flies off, and the
movie ends.
Although the Alice books are stories for children, they're probably
above the reading level of children of Alice's own age (seven in Through
the Looking-Glass). The introduction of longer vocabulary words and
Victorian customs also adds to the difficulty for twenty-first-century
readers. Still, for the most part, the books are written in simple language
that most readers can understand. Most sentences are relatively short
and straightforward, and when the language does become complicated,
the narrator usually makes fun of it for us before it gets too heavy.
3. LITERARY DEVICES
Symbols :The Garden, The Caterpillar’s Mushroom
V.THEME
3. WRITER’S INTENTION