Alice in Wonderland is a prose written by Lewis Carroll, originally Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, in 1865. He was an English author but also a mathematician and logician. Since child Carroll loved writing novels and poems (most of them being funny or satirical). Later on he became a mathematician professor but still continued to write all kinds of texts. Under the name of Lewis Carroll he wrote his most recognizable books Alice in Wonderland and it’s sequel Through the Looking Glass which both tell about Alice’s adventures in Wonderland.
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland has a theme of overcoming the difficulties of childhood and becoming an adult. At first Alice is a crybaby who cries over things way too easily but as I continued reading she made a lot of progress and became more mature and capable of holding her own against the illogical things in Wonderland. The book is an obvious fantasy and fairy tail story which includes talking animals, normally impossible things like growing and shrinking while eating or drinking something and much more ”curiouser and curiouser” coincidences. Alice in Wonderland is a book one of a kind and none of the books I’ve read haven’t had worlds as surreal. Still novels like Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling and Inkheart by Cornelia Funke give the same kind of thrilling feeling in which you just want to continue reading.
The main character of Alice in Wonderland is Alice, a young girl living in England. She is a daydreamer who loves to show of her knowledge. From many parts of the book the reader can spot parts in which explains Alice’s large imagination. Despite her quick temper she’s still very polite, honest and sweet. She is a perfect image of a well educated little girl from a well earning family. On the other hand Alice is well portrayed by her personality, her appearance isn’t being mentioned in the story. If there wouldn’t be any pictures, a first timer wouldn’t really have much clue about her looks.
I have read quite a few books in English but none of them had included poems or so. ”Carroll plays with linguistic conventions in Alice in Wonderland, making use of puns and playing on multiple meanings of words throughout the text”, is well said. He uses Alice’s confusion in advance and plays with all kinds of words which were at some places quite hard to understand. Plus Carroll loved poems and used them with delight. He also used a bit old fashioned language and sentences (well, the story was written in the 17th century). As for the narrator in Alice in Wonderland it is omniscient. The narrator tells thoroughly what Alice thinks or does but doesn’t follow other characters as closely.
For a short story Alice in Wonderland took me some time to read. I have, for a long, wanted to read this book but haven’t had the cuts to loan it. It was nice to see from where my favorite Disney Princess movie had had it’s beginning. I think I overestimated the book and were a bit disappointed when finished. Still Alice’s adventures is a classic which I recommend to everyone, young and old.