Reading Notes B Week 12: Alice in Wonderland

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Alice arrives upon the mad tea party, which is just as confusing as the rest of her adventure.  She finally gets frustrated and leaves and makes her way to the Queen's croquet grounds.

She comes upon playing cards as gardeners and they are painting a white rose bush red.  She thinks this very curious.

The Queen arrives and everyone in her party is playing cards, but by the patterns she can tell if they're soldiers, her family, or gardeners.  The Queen asks Alice to play croquet after threatening to off heads off several "people."


The croquet grounds were very strange.  The balls were live hedgehogs, the clubs were live flamingos, and the soldiers had to bend their bodies to make the arches.  Alice first had to learn to control her flamingo.  The flamingo and hedgehog never cooperated and the soldiers were always moving the arches around.  The Cheshire cat showed up to make things even more confusing.  The Queen said "off with his head!" but the executioner couldn't find a body to take the head off of because the Cheshire cat could make all or parts of him invisible.  

Then there becomes a very strange and messed up trial that Alice has to sit through and watch.  Alice began to grow back to her normal size during the trial.  The trial kept getting stranger until the Queen ordered Alice's head to be taken off but Alice, being back at her full size, swiped away the card-soldiers, then found herself awake back on the bank with her sister.  She thought to herself, what a curious dream, then got up & went off for tea.  

Bibliography:  Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.  Weblink.

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