When I was in school, I read an abridged version of Alice’s adventures in Wonderland. Though I know the story, I was very keen in reading its unabridged version.
I bought the book; the cover page of the book has the sketch of a cat with a wide grin and gradually fading down finally with just teeth on it.
The entire book was full of adventure, from the first page till the last. The 86 pages of fantasy took me through my younger days. When I was a kid, I used to wonder I wish I could haven been in the world of fun, adventure, excitement and uncertainties.
Though this book was meant for children, my personal view is that it equally attracts the adult audiences too. The narration, character description, their diction are very well framed to the story. Every character, from the white Rabbit to the queen of hearts tells us about the different characters that exist and those we come across in our lives.
The bored little Alice, who gets tired , when she sees her big sister reading a book and suddenly she is distracted towards a white rabbit with a black coat crosses her and she follows him and suddenly lands in a rabbit hole. From there the story goes around Alice meetings with new characters and when I was reading every line carefully, I was taken to my world of reality, the characters depicted in this tale brings some sort of synonymous substitution for the creatures to humans in reality.
The White rabbit makes Alice to follow like the Vodafone dog, which follows its master religiously. The white rabbit illustrates a simple but a strong meaning to the story, where Alice follows him wherever he goes and ends up in meeting various creatures with different traits in them.
In every chapter of the tale the various acts of Alice shows the normal human character of curiosity, courage, dislike, negligence, pride, boldness ,kindheartedness etc…
Alice‘s curiosity makes her drink a bottle which claims “Drink me” , but her wise brain makes her to check whether the bottle also has a label "poison" in it. She could nt find anything and she drinks a little from it and suddenly she shrinks, This particular act of hers states how it is important to be conscious at a young age , and this trait of a person will make him/her to be conscious in the future also.
In the following chapter she finds a wise caterpillar who sits on a mushroom with his hookha and he advices her how to cope with the difficulties she will face during her odyssey in the wonderland. This character shows as a good guide where everyone needs in the journey of life.
All the creatures and characters are done so well, that it shows a trait of wittiness and humor.
Every adventure Alice undergoes makes oneself to be in the wonderland and having an adventurous life with the creatures and characters.
While travelling in the wonderland, Alice meets many personalities like the Mouse, Duck, Lory , Dodo, pigeon frog footman, fish footman, duchess and many others but I am not mentioning about them but the characters which played the major role and one which I could relate with.
Then the most interesting character comes, the Cheshire Cat which is always with a grin and appears and disappears and re appears whenever Alice find some difficulties in the Wonderland and also teach her the rules of the place.
The Mad Hatter is one of the members at the Tea Party he is occasionally rude and Alice often reminds him to be civil in his speech to her.
Then here comes our highness the Queen of hearts, I felt this as the funniest, though she is the hard hearted woman, who find pleasure in execution.
Right from the beginning till the end Alice relises that all were a long dream , the narration is very well done.
A really adventures experience for me to travel through this fantasy Island and explore all the characters.
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