Reading Notes: Through the Looking Glass (Readings A &B)

• Nice steps through a mirror and finds herself in a world that is exactly the same, but opposite of the one she left. There are moving pictures, clocks, and chess pieces 
• The Jabberwocky poem is written backwards; it can only be read in a mirror
• Alice can float/fly
• Tweedledee and Tweedledum are jolly little fellows who like to say "Contrariwise" and argue
• The landscape of the land changes with the actions of the characters
• I.e. the three are dancing so the tree plays music using its branches
• Tweedledee and Tweedledum begin to tell Alice a story, The Carpenter and the Walrus
• It is written like a poem
• It's kind of morbid poem--- the walrus and the carpenter trick young oysters to walk along the beach with them ad then they eat them after they promised not to
• Tweedledum and Tweedledee suit up in a myriad of household items and proceed to argue abut whether or not they should fight
• Everyone in wonderland is really sassy
• They also speak in riddles
• Alice confusing a necklace for a belt
• Carol uses a lot of interrupted sentences in his writing 
• dashes and parentheses
• Humpty Dumpty acts as a "wise" character
• He translates the Jabberwocky poem for Alice 
• A clumsy red knight takes Alice as prisoner and a white knight immediately saves her 
• Both knights are dressed in suits of armor remnant of a chess piece
• The white knight has made contraptions for his horse that protect against mice infestations and shark bites
• The knight keeps falling off of his horse
• The knight drops her off and she finds a golden crown on the meadow
• The Red and White Queens give Alice a test to see whether or not she is a queen
• They ask implausible addition and subtraction questions 
• The two queens fall asleep against Alice
• Alice sings to the wonderland world for them to come join her at her dinner party
• Alice's cat wakes her up from a dream

Bibliography: Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Caroll

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