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.
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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.
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