Book Report

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

By

Lewis Carroll

The famous novels Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll are about the adventures of a young girl named Alice , who begins her long journey into Wonderland after following a white rabbit with a big golden pocket watch . The rabbit keeps looking to his watch and fretting that he 's late . Alice is made very curious by him , and follows him down a long , dark rabbit hole full of cupboards and shelves She keeps falling for

a long time and thinks she will fall right through the earth until she lands on a pile of sticks

From there , she continues down a long hallway and comes to a bottle that has a tag with the label `drink me ' on it . She sips from it and begins shrinking until she thinks she will finally shrink into xistence . At that point , she then takes a bite of cake that has a tag reading `eat me ' on it , and grows extremely tall . She begins to cry with her new problem and creates a flood of tears in the hallway . Once she shrinks down again she meets a group of animals and they begin a `Caucus race ' to dry themselves after the flood Alice created with her tears

When the hallway disappears , Alice finally encounters the white rabbit who mistakes her for his maid , Mary Anne . He asks her to find his gloves and fan , and she obeys , going into his house where she finds them and drinks once again from a bottle that makes her grow enormous . Several animals try to get her out of the house again , but it is only after she eats the cake that she grows small , and is able to run away from the white rabbit and others who thought she was a monster

She then meets the caterpillar , who asks her to recite her lessons . But she only wants to know how to return to her normal size . He tells her that if she takes a bite of the mushroom on one side , she will grow very tall , and if she eats the other side , she will grow very small . She takes a bite of one side and immediately , her neck and legs grow very long and a bird in the trees mistakes Alice for a serpent who is trying to eat her eggs . No matter what Alice tells her , she cannot convince the bird of her innocence and she quickly remembers to eat the second half of the mushroom to grow small again

After she escapes the bird , she finds a small house which belongs to the duchess . The duchess is nursing a small baby while the cook works on a meal that causes pepper to fly everywhere and everyone to sneeze . Alice notices a grinning cat called a Cheshire cat there . At one point the duchess s Alice 's beheading but then she merely goes to play a game of...