Alice in Wonderland Essay

1. How would you characterize Alice?

Based on the novel Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll, Alice, the heroine of the story is a curious, imaginative, strong- willed, and honest young English girl. Her adventures begin when she falls asleep by the side of a stream in a meadow and dreams that she follows a White Rabbit down his hole.

Her curiosity has made her ventured the world she never been before, entered each doors that she able to open, she even trying hardly to figured out how to open the doors she couldn’t opened. She also curious about the food and drink she’d found in her journey, she always ate and drank beverages she’d never known just to figure out what its taste or what it’s used for.

Her imagination take her to try to communicate with every creature or character (which most of them are animals) she’d met on her journey even though she knew that it would never happens in normal life. She has many adventures in a Wonderland peopled by all kinds of strange characters and animals.

Her strong-willingness makes her always optimized that she could through all of her journey nicely and got back to her normal life in normal world.

Her honesty makes people or character she’d met cared for her and want to help her to figure out who she is and how to get her back to her real world.

The tale is an extended metaphor for the challenges she will face as she grows into an adult. She possesses unusual composure for a child, and she seems bright but makes many charming mistakes. She grows more confident as the book progresses.

2. Explain this quotation!

�Who are you?’ said the Caterpillar.

This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, вЂ?IвЂ"I hardly know, sir, just at present вЂ" at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.’

Based on the story, the Caterpillar may not know exactly what creature Alice is, because he never saw any creature like her around in his world.

Being asked like that make Alice confused herself. She find herself hardly explain to the Caterpillar about who or what creature she is. So she innocently replied to the Caterpillar that she didn’t know exactly who or what creature she is that time. She rather confused of what happens to her because by that morning she woke up as a normal girl in normal world got herself accompanying her sister on the bank. But then suddenly in the next moments she founds herself trapped in a journey in very strange world (that later she called it Wonderland) since she met White Rabbit in the garden and follow him in to his hole.

Since then she got herself changing her body size and shape for several time and met so many strange creature ever since every time she enter each doors. She had had herself changing into small size, telescope shaped and also giant sized after she ate, drank, wear or holding something strange she’d never ate, drink, or touch before. She also found herself could talk familiarly with some creature that most of them are talking animals. Those would never happen in her normal world and normal life.

3. “Teenage Wasteland”

In general, teenagers today have a more difficult time than their parents did. The economic condition might be the biggest problem to work out. Not only the living costs that rose because of the current exchange that shrink all the time but the cost of education also being one of the big issue to think about.

Nowadays, everyone must compete to be the successful one to have better status so that they could be admitted in their society. The way to be the successful one is by getting in to appropriate school or college, make a good mark, and then accepted for a good position in a good company. That’s why all the parents more concerned about their children’s education.

The cost of education could not count