The Looking Glass Wars

Passage:
"Alyss didn't get along with the other children living at the foundling hospital..."

"Alice worked hard to enter into the world in which she found herself..."

Pages: 

123 and 162

Comment and Questions:

The entire quote itself is not what is important in this journal but the name in both quotes, Alyss and Alice,  which are two ways to spell the same name for the same person. In the first quote the young ladies name is spelled Alyss, which I believe the author left that way to symbolize her struggle against the new world that she had traveled to and she that she had not succumbed to the ways of that society and new world. Later on in the book however, the author changes the spelling of Alyss' name to "Alice" to symbolize her finally being broken and conforming to the ways of the new world and accepting the way that they do things instead of keeping to her traditional ways of her old world. Through theses two examples the author shows that a person can only resist society as a whole for so long until they finally yield to the pressure and conform to the ways or norms of society.