This has to be my favorite book of all time. It's one i think everyone would enjoy and should defiantly read.
Its a very epic tale about a small girl named Alice. She is very bored and sleepy one day while lazing around the river with her older sister. Her sister was reading a book and Alice pointed out that it had no pictures. "A book with no pictures?" She thought to herself. "How mad." She then lost interest quickly.Suddenly, a white rabbit scampers by yelling that it is very late, and pulls a pocket watch out of its waistcoat.Now Alice doesn't instantly notice the strangeness of a talking rabbit, but when she sees the rabbit's clothes and watch, she becomes very interested. So she follows the rabbit hopping right down a deep rabbit hole. Giving no thought of how she plans to get out again;her curiosity got the best of her. She seems to fall very slowly in the darkness for some time, having enough time to observe the things around her. There were shelves, maps and pictures which hung on pegs. At one point, she picked up a jar of orange marmalade and puts it back into place on another shelf. She seems to fall for a long period of time, and begins to worry that she might fall straight through to the other side of the earth.She worries about missing her cat, Dinah at dinner. Finally, she reaches the bottom of the hole. She lands in a long hallway with a checkered floor, and is just in time to see the frantic white rabbit hurrying away.The hallway is lined with doors, but all of them are locked. On a three legged table made of glass Alice finds a key, but it is far too small for any of the locks. Then, Alice finds a tiny door hidden behind a curtain. The key works, but the door is way too small. Through the door there is a miniature passageway, leading to a lovely garden. The sight of the garden makes Alice more determined than ever to find a way to get through. Alice goes back to the table, where a little bottle has magically appeared. The label read "DRINK ME," and after checking to see if it marked "poison," Alice drinks it all up. She then quickly shrinks to a size small enough for the door, but she soon realizes that she has left the key on top of the now large table. She is now to short to reach it. After realizing once more that she will not be able to climb the table, she begins to cry. But then finds a piece of cake, on which is a little slip of paper that reads "EAT ME." Alice eats, and waits for the results. Growing larger in size her head is now to the ceiling and her foot the size of two doors. Again seeing she cannot shrink she begins to cry even more. Large salty tears splash amongst the now small floor and begin to fill the room. Alice, too upset to realize, began shrinking fast into the ocean of her own tears. Alice gasps for air, and is failing greatly. Just when poor Alice was giving up she spots a mouse bigger than her swimming in her tears. She soon gets the mouse's attention and is pulled to dry land...
Many things happen in this book such as one of the more famous scenes "The Mad Hatter and the Hare". Where Alice is lost in Wonderland and finds herself at a small tea party with a truly mad hatter and his crazy friend the hare. Yelling Happy Birthday, and saying strange riddles Alice tries to make an attempt to leave, but before doing so they move up the large table several times, and Alice never gets one sip of tea.
Another famous scene is the "Advice from a Caterpillar". Alice is very lost and tired. When she comes across the hookah smoking caterpillar he simply asks her "Who are you?". She can give no satisfactory reply, because she has changed so many times in one day that she feels she can no longer answer the question with certainty. The Caterpillar tells her it is not so confusing to change. They have a conversation in which the very mellow Caterpillar gives important advice to the irritable Alice. "You must keep your temper" he repeats. He asks her to recite "You are old, Father William," which Alice does, although afterward they agree that she recited incorrectly. He also tells her that she will grow accustomed to the sensitivity of the animals. Alice expresses that she wants to be larger, but Caterpillar contradicts Alice repeatedly, with absolute composure. After a while he crawls off through the grass, telling her that one side of the mushroom will make her grow taller, and the other side will make her grow shorter.
I thought "Alice in Wonderland" was a very psychedelic tale about really finding yourself through all craziness .
I give this book five out of five stomps!!!
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