Following Alice

In chapter one “Down The Rabbit-Hole”, Alice was falling down and thinking of random things that that she knows or misses. Alice thinks that she could fall through the Earth and land in Australia or New Zealand. She than remembers that they are upside-down and that they would walk with their heads down. This fall down to the center of the Earth could therefore land her in a world where everything is different or the complete opposite than where she came from. Thus, this fall down the rabbit hole could foreshadow her descent into the madness of Wonderland.

The one way conversations so to speak also help form Alice’s personality that the reader could could expect for most of the story. For instance, her ‘want’ to show off her knowledge will show that she does like to talk about things that she knows and what others, in her mind, do not. Then other times she would make an unanswerable questions, accidentally make a question confusing, or try to answer a question and be unable to fully or completely answer the question. This helps make out the typical mind of a young proud child who thinks that he or she can answer any question and come out right.

The conversation down the rabbit hole also at one point also shows that Alice is, as Lewis Carroll pointed out, curious about the world. With both her young curious mind and her incomplete picture of how the world works, allows the creatures of Wonderland to easily make Alice belief in what they say is correct. While I’m talking about the rabbit hole, why does the rabbit hole have so many shelfs and is so crowded? Could these crowded and dense shelfs also be a foreshadowing of the inside of Alice’s mind? But this thought does cancel out some of my argument by saying that her mind is not empty and incomplete but jammed packed full of either ideas, thoughts and desires. One of the desires, just to point out, is the Orange Marmalade. But on the other hand, a crowded or distracted mind is common for most young children.

So therefore, Alice’s mind is incomplete in it’s areas of knowledge,but is distracted by day-to-day life and complications, such as the lack of Orange Marmalade, and therefore sets the right image of girl falling down the recesses of her mind down to a upside-down world of Wonderland.