Alice in Wonderland!

Alice in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll is a book about childhood innocence. It is said that Carroll might have written this book when he was high on drugs but many critics think that that is just garbage. Many people believe that Carroll wrote his book as a children's story for girls he was very close too. The one he was the closest to was named Alice. Carroll was always very good with children and even is this story was meant as a childrens story it has a lot of literary value. The main idea of the story is Alice growing up. Throughout the story Alice changes size multiple times. When she changed size she would get frustrated and upset, sometimes she even just sat down and cried. I think that her change of size is supposed to be similiar to a child going through puberty. A child going through puberty goes through many changes and it may b difficult to get used to them at first. The changing of size also relates this book to Gulliver's Travels. In Gulliver's Travels the main character himself doesn't change but he finds himself either bigger or smaller than the people around him and it causes many problems. In Alice in Wonderland it is Alice herself that changes size and makes her bigger or smaller than she should be for the situation at hand. In Wonderland most of the people she runs into are actually animals. Animals seem to be higher in hierarchy than humans very similiar to Gulliver's Travels when he went to the land of the horses. None of the animals really think very highly of humans. I feel that this story will make a great addition to my senior study and I might read Through the Looking Glass to get a little bit more because Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is such a short book.