Passage:
"'Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought Alice. 'I'm glad they've begun asking riddles--I believe I can guess that,' she added aloud.
'Do you mean that you think that you can find out the answer to it?' said the March Hare.
'Exactly so,' said Alice.
'Then you should say what you mean.' the March Hare went on.
'I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know.'
'Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. 'Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see!'
'You might just as well say,' added the March Hare, 'that 'I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'!
'You might as well say,' added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, 'that ' I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe'!"
Page:
80
Comments and Response:
Although all of them are mad (crazy) they present a very interesting argument to Alice that makes her rethink what she had said. Although all the same words are in the sentence rearranging them creates a different meaning of the sentence all together. Rearranging the words makes something sensible like "I breathe when I sleep" instead saying something ridiculous like "I sleep when I breathe" which implies that ever time you breathe you are sleeping, which doesn't make for a very interesting life.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 3
Passage:
"'Whoever lives there,' thought Alice, 'it'll never do to come upon them this size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!' So she began to nibbling at the the right-hand bit again, and did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high."
Page:
64
Comments and Response:
For someone who has been going through trouble since arriving in Wonderland one would think that Alice would be much nicer and not play tricks on others. Her being mischievous might be due to her being young, or that Wonderland is beginning to change her. It seems that the later is more correct because earlier in the book she was messing with the white rabbit when he was just trying to get into his own house. In addition she is readily eating the mushroom piece that makes her grow just to scare some people that she has not even meet yet.
"'Whoever lives there,' thought Alice, 'it'll never do to come upon them this size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!' So she began to nibbling at the the right-hand bit again, and did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high."
Page:
64
Comments and Response:
For someone who has been going through trouble since arriving in Wonderland one would think that Alice would be much nicer and not play tricks on others. Her being mischievous might be due to her being young, or that Wonderland is beginning to change her. It seems that the later is more correct because earlier in the book she was messing with the white rabbit when he was just trying to get into his own house. In addition she is readily eating the mushroom piece that makes her grow just to scare some people that she has not even meet yet.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1
Passage:
"It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. 'No I'll look first,' she said, 'and see whether it's marked 'poison' or not'; for she had read several nice little stories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that, if you cut finger very deeply with a knife that, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if a you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
Page:
17
Comments and Response:
This passage shows the great amount of wisdom that Alice believes she has. In this passage Lewis Carroll is poking fun at the character named Alice by calling her wise and then saying something ridiculous that only an innocent child would say, "and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later." Through this example Lewis used the character of Alice to underscore the effects of drinking poison by making them seem not as serious as they actually which will ultimately lead to the death of the person who drank the poison.
"It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. 'No I'll look first,' she said, 'and see whether it's marked 'poison' or not'; for she had read several nice little stories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that, if you cut finger very deeply with a knife that, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if a you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
Page:
17
Comments and Response:
This passage shows the great amount of wisdom that Alice believes she has. In this passage Lewis Carroll is poking fun at the character named Alice by calling her wise and then saying something ridiculous that only an innocent child would say, "and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later." Through this example Lewis used the character of Alice to underscore the effects of drinking poison by making them seem not as serious as they actually which will ultimately lead to the death of the person who drank the poison.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 2
Passage:
"The first question of course was, how to get dry again...At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of some authority among them, called out "Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'll soon make you dry enough!" They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon. "Ahem!" said the Mouse with an important air. "Are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know, Silence all round, if you please! 'William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, earls of Mercia and Northumbria--'"
Page:
33
Comments and Response:
This scene depicts some of the wackiness that occurs in Wonderland. Instead of the Mouse coming up with an idea that will get everybody dry, in the sense that everybody will no longer be wet, he instead comes up with a dry topic that everybody will find boring. This scene also puts to good use the double meanings that words have in different contexts in this case it being dry. In addition this scene provides the reader that not everything is what it seems in wonderland.
"The first question of course was, how to get dry again...At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of some authority among them, called out "Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I'll soon make you dry enough!" They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon. "Ahem!" said the Mouse with an important air. "Are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know, Silence all round, if you please! 'William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, earls of Mercia and Northumbria--'"
Page:
33
Comments and Response:
This scene depicts some of the wackiness that occurs in Wonderland. Instead of the Mouse coming up with an idea that will get everybody dry, in the sense that everybody will no longer be wet, he instead comes up with a dry topic that everybody will find boring. This scene also puts to good use the double meanings that words have in different contexts in this case it being dry. In addition this scene provides the reader that not everything is what it seems in wonderland.
Friday, November 2, 2012
The Rise of Nine 2
Passage:
"Now Eight stands and stretches, revealing a bit of his stomach as his shirt lifts. He leans down and picks up a walking stick and twirls it in his hands. I can’t take my eyes off of him. It’s such a new and unusual feeling for me and makes me feel shy and excited at the same time.
Pages:
No pages reading on pdf file o my laptop
Comments & Response:
Number seven who also goes by the name Marina is totally crushing on Eight. It seems as all these feelings towards eight are new for her and that she has not experienced these kind of feelings before. This also creates greater imagery of number Eight because this chapter is told from the perspective of Marina who is falling hard for him. This passage is not the first time that she has expressed sense of liking him but this passage states a sign of affection of Marina to Eight.
"Now Eight stands and stretches, revealing a bit of his stomach as his shirt lifts. He leans down and picks up a walking stick and twirls it in his hands. I can’t take my eyes off of him. It’s such a new and unusual feeling for me and makes me feel shy and excited at the same time.
Pages:
No pages reading on pdf file o my laptop
Comments & Response:
Number seven who also goes by the name Marina is totally crushing on Eight. It seems as all these feelings towards eight are new for her and that she has not experienced these kind of feelings before. This also creates greater imagery of number Eight because this chapter is told from the perspective of Marina who is falling hard for him. This passage is not the first time that she has expressed sense of liking him but this passage states a sign of affection of Marina to Eight.
The Rise of Nine
Passage:
"I’m struck by his playfulness, unsure if it’s going to be an attribute or a liability. I decide to view it as a positive. I can just see the annoyance and confusion on the Mogadorians’ faces moments before this kid turns them to ash. Crayton leans forward and, as if they’d rehearsed the routine in advance, Eight does a flip onto the ground, then claps his hands, obviously pleased with himself."
Pages:
Not known, reading it off a pdf file on my laptop.
Comments & Response:
This is character development of the the characters number six and number eight. Six displays characteristics of being cautious but also of being an optimistic character stating that she will take his playfulness "as a positive." Eight is shown to be a kind of comedian or tension reliever for the group which may come in handy as Six has stated, "I can just see the annoyance and confusion on the Mogadorians' faces moments before this kid turns them to ash."
"I’m struck by his playfulness, unsure if it’s going to be an attribute or a liability. I decide to view it as a positive. I can just see the annoyance and confusion on the Mogadorians’ faces moments before this kid turns them to ash. Crayton leans forward and, as if they’d rehearsed the routine in advance, Eight does a flip onto the ground, then claps his hands, obviously pleased with himself."
Pages:
Not known, reading it off a pdf file on my laptop.
Comments & Response:
This is character development of the the characters number six and number eight. Six displays characteristics of being cautious but also of being an optimistic character stating that she will take his playfulness "as a positive." Eight is shown to be a kind of comedian or tension reliever for the group which may come in handy as Six has stated, "I can just see the annoyance and confusion on the Mogadorians' faces moments before this kid turns them to ash."
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)