For Week 13, I chose to read about Alice in Wonderland mainly because it was one of my favorite movies growing up. My family and I would always watch it on our VHS player while we ate popcorn, and I even had a stuffed cat that I called Dinah (even though it turned out to be the white cat from the Aristocats instead). Before reading, I was super interested to see whether or not this story would be similar to the movie, and I was pleased to find out that this story tells a similar one that the movie does! For these notes, I chose to focus on the trip that Alice takes down the rabbit hole when she first sees the white rabbit with the pocket watch. This story even retells the story in the same way as it is told in the movie. Alice is watching and listening to her sister read her school book, all while making a chain of daisies, when she sees a white rabbit that is running late. This reading tells this portion of the story like this:
"There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that, nor did Alice think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
Along with the fact that it is very similar to the movie, this story also uses an elegant prose style which adds a poetic element that pulls the reader in. This elegance is kind of captured in the movie in the way that the characters speak, but through this written version, we are able to fully see the authors poetic influence and the artistic choices that he chose to employ to bring this story to life. I also enjoyed that this story was organized in a way that was chronological and cohesive, as it made it easier to follow along with!
Bibliography: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865). Down the Rabbit-Hole
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| Illustration by Sir John Tenniel, Gutenberg |
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