For a few minutes, she is frightened the experience of falling disorients her.

And very soon she finds herself falling down a deep tunnel. Alice follows him simply because she is very curious about him. The White Rabbit wears a waistcoat, walks upright, speaks English, and is worrying over the time on his pocket watch. In a dream, Alice has escaped from the dull and boring and prosaic world of adulthood - a world of dull prose and pictureless experiences she has entered what seems to be a confusing, but perpetual springtime of physical, if often terrifying, immediacy. In this first paragraph, then, we learn about the protagonist, Alice, her age, her temperament, and the setting and the mood of the story. However, he is not merely a rabbit he will be the 'White Rabbit,' a major character in the novel. Slowly losing interest in her sister's book, Alice catches sight of a white rabbit. and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' Thus, we find many pictures and read much dialogue (although very little of it makes sense) in this novel.Īfter introducing us to one of the creatures in Wonderland, the Gryphon, for instance, the narrator tells us, 'If you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.' As noted earlier, Wonderland is filled with strange animals, and Alice's encounters with these creatures, all of whom engage her in conversations, confuse her even more whenever she meets yet another inhabitant of this strange country. And the story begins with Alice and her sister sitting on the bank of a river reading a book which has no pictures or dialogue in it. Each of the brief chapters, furthermore, is divided into small, individual, almost isolated episodes.

The novel is composed of twelve brief chapters it can be read in an afternoon.

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