"'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-'"
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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.
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