Week 12 Reading Notes Part A

This week, I decided to read about Alice in Wonderland. I have watched the Disney movie before, and was quite familiar with their telling of the tale, but I wanted to know more about the original telling. I found that the actual story was quite different from the Disney version. Although plot elements were consistent, the tone of the story was very different. This part was the first story of the unit.

Notes:

• Alice was very bored one day watching her sister read. She noted that the book was very boring without any pictures or conversations.
• She saw a rabbit walking past, yelling that it was going to be late to something
• At the time, Alice did not think anything was strange about a talking rabbit, but later she realized that it was quite a strange phenomenon.
• She followed the rabbit down a rabbit hole, not thinking about how she would get back out
• The fall was very long, and she was able to examine her surroundings.
• She realized that the sides of the fall were shelves, and she inspected them for items
• She fell for what seemed to be forever, and thought that she might go straight through the earth and end up in Australia or New Zealand.

Rabbit by Sir John Tenniel

This story is part of the Alice in Wonderland unit. Story source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865).