The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, is a good spin off from Alice in Wonderland. In this story Alyss gets separated from wonderland by her Aunt Redd and is forced to leave Wonderland and go to London, England. Eventually she returns to face Redd and reclaims her rightful throne. This book is unlike the original because it gives meaningful themes. I will focus on not lose hope and that was displayed by the Alyssian’s, Hatter Madigan, and Alyss. The Alyssian’s did not lose hope even though they
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Start with classical architetcure in oxford, and why it took so long to happen Education presentation, vs. a fun presentation Thought I’d do everyone a favor The twisted tales of of Alice in Wonderland ( secrets and mysteries reveiled) If I can talk for 10 minutes about anything, I’ll have more fun taking about this - like it because you can see it when you’re 4 and then you’re see it when you’re an adult and it’s a completely different story History Lewis Carroll (scandal)
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we move through life we thus develop our own personal image of ourselves. This is not only created from our own thoughts, about ourselves, but also the influence and the perceptions that others have of us. This concept is called the ‘looking-glass self’. According to Dictionary.reference.com, the definition of this is, ‘the self-image an individual forms by imagining what others think of his or her behavior and appearance.’ The key word here is, ‘imagine.’ We are not influenced by the actual
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As soon as we received the sheet describing my first Socratic Seminar a few thoughts came to mind. At first I was confused. “What is a Socratic Seminar?” I thought. Second, “this could help my grade”. Finally I said to myself “this is going to be fun”. The nights leading up to the seminar I read through the question and Alice in Wonderland, searching for quotes and evidence to answer the questions given out. In my opinion I found some quality quotes to answer questions that supported my interpretation
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Based on the steps provided according to Ross, Alice (Alice in Wonderland) does complete a hero’s journey. “It leads to the heroine in the direction of personal growth and control over her surroundings. Alice learns how to manage her size. How to talk back to a queen and, finally how to wear a crown of adulthood” (Ross, 2004). In other words, Alice goes on an adventure that helps her transform into a new person and by the end of the adventure she is rewarded. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice’s ordinary
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Throughout the myriad of dramatic adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s novella Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1872), the caterpillar, and his place in the story, has become one of the most recognizable and frequently imitated aspects of the tale. Walt Disney brought its version of Carroll’s story to the silver screen in 1951 in its animated film Alice in Wonderland. With its expertise in animation Disney was able to take Carroll’s narrative to the level of the fantastic that the author had envisioned
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Alice In Wonderland, a very well known story written in the 1860’s. With many adaptations of this story today we are going to focus on the version created by the mighty Tim Burton. This film casted many popular actors/actresses such as Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway and Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter which come as no surprise since Tim Burton usually casts Johnny and Helena in most of his films. Overall, Tim Burton has a reputation for being weird, wacky and very unusual. These characteristics
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For my groups’ presentation, we researched the author backgrounds of Lewis Carroll and Etheridge King along with analyzing their poems “Jabberwocky” and “The Idea of Ancestry”. One of my jobs as a member of this group was to research the author background for Lewis Carroll. When looking for information, I looked for specific things like where he worked, his life as a child, his family life, if he had run into any legal problems, and if there were any authors who influenced his writing. I searched
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Lutwidge Dodgson, best known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, has written many novels, poems, and short stories in his lifetime but his most famous for his children's “nonsense” novels: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking Glass. His works, especially the two mentioned, have influenced countless readers over the years, and references to his writings can be found in every type of media from the song “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane to the the Matrix trilogy. While both
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