Chosen summary assignment due Friday

I plan to use strategy 6, which involves quoting and paraphrasing.

In this short summarized article about The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland Maatta is trying to give a summarized version of her analysis of the book. In the beginning paragraphs she writes about Charles Dodgson and how his story is based on a girl Alice, who was very close to him. Dodgson wrote this story for three young girls which included Alice. Dodgson was believed to write the story in honor of Alice Liddell. Many people consider the story to be “variations on the debate of gender.” Maatta mentions a few events that she finds are important. One is when Alice continuously grows and shrinks in the book, believing that this changing of size indicates the ups and downs of adolescence hood and the battle between being a woman or a girl. Girls at adolescence are unconfident. A line in the book reflects upon this, “She generally gave herself good advice, though she rarely seldom followed it.” Throughout her adventure she is incapable of understanding the rules of the Wonderland which could in fact reflect on adulthood. This would make since at the adolescent stage in her life. Time is an important theme in the story. The rabbit is constantly looking at his watch and tea time is the same time each day; growing up takes time. Maatta declares, a theme stated earlier, that the first story of the book is somewhat close to a description of a young girl (Alice) leaving childhood, going through youth, and then entering the world of adulthood. If one looks deep into the story they will find evidence that suggests the feelings Dodgson had for Alice. There is long sentence at the end of the first story where Alice’s sister proclaims her feelings for her. This was believed to be evidence of Dodgson’s feelings. (I will write the long sentence right now). Grief is a common tone throughout the sequel and Maatta thinks that this is the grief Dodgson felt when Alice grew up and moved away. His thought are portrayed through Alice’s sister throughout the book.

Taken from http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/explain/alice841.html