Reading Diary A: Alice in Wonderland

Alice and the Characters of Wonderland, by Jesse Wilcox Smith (1923)

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I know that I am making a frame tale based around the character of Alice, but I figured it might be nice to explore her world in depth as written in the literature.
   Alice starts out her adventure following the white rabbit down the rabbit hole, commenting on how peculiar the whole experience is especially when she starts her long fall. She starts wondering what she'd do if she fell to the other side of the world. Then her mind moves onto more nonsensical topics, like "Do cats eat bats?" Alice finishes her fall and finds herself once again on the tail of the white rabbit, but finds herself stuck when she comes to a door that's far too small for her to get through. She manages to find a bottle labeled "drink me", which Alice does, and becomes just small enough to fit through the door. But realizing she could no longer reach the key for the small door, she begins to cry, and can't seem to stop herself from flooding the entire chamber. After eating a cake labelled "eat me", Alice then grows tall enough to reach the key.
   Next Alice follows the rabbit into a thick forest, where she loses sight of him but encounters the company of a hooka-smoking caterpillar. As she begins to converse with the rhetorically confounding caterpillar, Alice realizes that she has become more nonsensical and dreamy since entering this strange new world. The caterpillar, however tests Alice's patience with more learning lessons, similar but more nonsensical compared to the ones her sister read to her. As Alice becomes infuriated with the Caterpillar's attitude, she stomps off, but not before the Caterpillar calls her back over again. He tells her not to "lose her temper," and then to recite more literature from her lessons. Just as Alice was about to lose her temper from this endless quarrel with the Caterpillar, he suggests to Alice to eat either side of the mushroom to grow taller or shorter for the particular height that she would like to be.

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