Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 7

Passage:

"'And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. 'Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' 'What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. 'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.'"

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111

Comments and Response:

I choose this scene purely because of the humor in the word play that is used. Instead of lesson being used in the traditional where the person is taught something, Lewis Carroll uses the words phonetic saying to say something else completely that being lessen.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 6

Passage:
"Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so savage when they met in the kitchen. 'When I'm a Duchess,' she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone, though), 'I wo'n't have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without-Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered," she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, "and vinegar that makes them sour-and camomile that makes them bitter- and-and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered."

Page:
103

Comments and Response:
This further develops Alice's character as a little girl that does not know much about the world. She does not realize that ingredients in food do not turn people a certain way and that different situations and circumstances are what make people a certain way. In addition it is funny how she says that when she becomes "a Duchess." I find this funny because this is how little kids talk, they say that they will become this and that.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 5

Passage:

"'Would you tell me, please,' said Alice, a little timidly, 'why you are painting those roses?' Five and Seven said nothing, but looked at Two. Two began, in a low voice, 'Why, the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and, if the Queen was to find it out, we should have all our heads cut off, you know. So you see, Miss, we're doing our best, afore she comes to-'"

Page:

91

Comments and Response:

This single passage develops the cards Two, Five, and Seven and it also develops the Queen. It is shown in this passage that the cards are incompetent by planting the wrong set of flowers, planting white flowers instead of red flowers. This passage also shows the gravity of their mistake, their mistake being punishable by death. Through the degree of the penalty that is being served for a simple mistake as planting the wrong set of flowers shows the Queens character as somewhat an irrational character. Punishing the cards by beheading them is an extreme thing for such a small offense.