Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: A Journey Through the Rabbit Hole
Rabbit’s Home
In this instance, Alice meets the White Rabbit, who mistakes her for his housemaid, Mary. The rabbit sends her to find his gloves and fan. She goes to the rabbit’s home and finds the pair of gloves and fan, but she also finds a little bottle. Although this time the bottle is without a label with the words “DRINK ME,” Alice decides to drink it out of curiosity and starts to grow inside the house.
Alice has grown and now she doesn’t fit in the Rabbit’s home. She grows so much that she puts one arm out the window to fit in the house. The situation is desperate for Alice. She feels helpless. The White Rabbit tries to access her in different ways, but he can’t. At the end, the Rabbit decides to throw stones through the window. These stones change into little cakes. Alice thinks that she can’t grow any more. Then she eats a piece of the cake. She shrinks and goes out of the house. She runs off as hard as she could, and soon found herself safe in a thick wood.
Alice in the Room
Alice follows a White Rabbit because she is bored with her sister. Alice enters the rabbit hole, following the White Rabbit. There she falls down through the long and deep well, ending up in a room. The White Rabbit disappears, and then she discovers a little door behind a curtain. She can’t enter because the door is very little for her. After she sees a small bottle with a label, where it’s written the words “DRINK ME.” She drinks the contents of the bottle and shrinks, but she forgot the keys on the table, and now she can’t open the door. It is a very frustrating situation. Then she sees a piece of cake with the words “EAT ME.” When Alice eats the cake, she starts to grow or opens out like a telescope. Alice feels very frustrated with her physical changes. All this is very strange for her. She has been crying and is now sitting in a puddle of tears. Then Alice sees the White Rabbit, like he forgets a pair of gloves and a fan, and is in a hurry. Alice takes the fan and starts to fan herself in order to relax from this situation. When she is fanning herself, she starts to shrink, now she’s very little and ends up in her pool of tears. In this way, Alice ends one story and starts another very different and curious one.
The Pool of Tears
Alice is swimming in the pool of her own tears, she doesn’t know where the exit is when she sees a mouse swimming in the pool. Alice tries to speak to the mouse, but he doesn’t understand Alice. Alice goes out of the water, she was now with more animals, that they go out of the water also. Out of the water, the animals and Alice talk about the way to dry up. The mouse tells a story in order to dry up but out of order. The Dodo knows that a race can work. All animals and Alice start to run in a round, the race hasn’t any rules. When everyone is dry, the Dodo stops the race and says that everybody has won. The animals ask Alice for their prizes, Alice doesn’t know what to do. She puts her hand in her pocket and pulls out a box of comfits, she gives them exactly one candy each. Everyone has a prize except Alice because she had candy for every person, but she had no prize for herself. But she looks in her pocket and finds a thimble, that the Dodo gives her in the concept of victory. The thimble is a symbol of the victory. Alice thinks the whole thing very absurd, but she accepts the present thimble and follows her way.
Magic Cake
The cake appears at the beginning of the story when Alice shrinks because she has drunk from the bottle. Now she is small. Therefore, she needs to eat the cake to grow and take the keys to the little door. She eats the cake and opens out like a telescope. The cake appears again when Alice is leaving the Rabbit’s home because she has drunk the content of a bottle and has grown, so she does not fit inside the house. The Rabbit’s friends throw stones that become cakes. She eats one of the cakes and she starts to shrink in order to go out of the house.
Magic Fan
The fan is shown at the beginning of the story when Alice has opened out like a telescope, she sees the White Rabbit going across the room, and it loses a fan. Alice starts to fan herself with the fan in order to ease the frustration. In this moment, Alice starts to shrink, but she has cried so much that she is in a sea of tears.
Magic Potion
Alice, in the first seven chapters, drinks twice from two different bottles. One of them appears at the beginning of the story, and it has a label with the words “DRINK ME” printed on it. She drinks it, and she shrinks to her right size, now she is smaller than before. The other bottle appears in the White Rabbit’s home, but Alice also drinks it. In this case, Alice has experienced a physical transformation again, but she does not shrink. On the contrary, she grows and barely fits in the room.
Magic Mushroom
The mushroom is a curious object because when Alice meets the Blue Caterpillar, he tells her that, depending on the side of the mushroom from which she eats, she would grow or shrink. As she has both pieces of the mushroom, this is the first time that she can control the change of her size. First, she opens out or grows like a telescope, and after she can return to her normal size.
The Blue Caterpillar
There was a large mushroom growing near her. She stretched herself up on tiptoe and peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar that was sitting on the top, quietly smoking, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else. The blue caterpillar spoke sternly about who she was. Alice responded that didn’t know very well because she has grown and shrunk many times and is not clear who she is. She also says she feels bad with a small size such as 3 inches. The blue caterpillar was offended because it was 3 inches in size. Alice was confused about the conversation. Then the caterpillar tells her that, depending on the side of the mushroom from which she eats, she would grow or shrink. This is the first time she can control her size. The problem was that a piece of mushroom could make her shrink or grow.
Classroom Activity
Although Wonderland is an illogical, nonsensical world, you can ask your pupils to make lucid and reasonable judgements about the story and the characters. In class, you should help your pupils cope with passages causing difficulties in comprehension.