Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

             Alice's Adventure in Wonderland is a timeless story written by the 19th-century British author, Lewis Carroll. It is a compilation of a little girl named Alice's many adventures, beginning from the moment she dreams of following a rabbit down a hole. There is no central, concrete storyline, but rather Alice runs into one bizarre situation to the next before waking once more and telling the whole adventure to her sister. This story is packed with symbols that have been opened to interpretation as well as the debate for decades. It is easy to overanalyze the story; however, nothing can be known for sure. Almost everything in the book has a double meaning. It is known that Carroll first wrote down the ideas for this book when his beloved childhood friend, Alice Liddell, requested it. It remains in question; however, whether the book is simply a tale written to satisfy a little girl's wish or love-gifts to a speculated relationship with young Alice. The book also shows signs and references to Carroll's suspected drug addiction. It was never proven that he was under the influence of mind-altering drugs while he wrote this. The fact that all the characters are so nonsensical and unique may have lead to this conclusion.
             After Alice follows the peculiar White Rabbit down the rabbit hole, she finds herself falling slowly down for a long time. It is when she finally reaches the bottom that all her backward adventures start to unravel rapidly. First, she is troubled with drastically becoming ten inches tall, then several feet high. She then runs into many peculiar characters. To name just a few, there were, easily offended talking creatures, Bill the Lizard, a smoking Caterpillar, the ugly Duchess, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the temperamental Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle and the Cheshire Cat. She swam in her pool of tears, became so large that she was pushed around by the alarmed creatures, had tea with two very mad individuals, play...

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