Bookies: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (July)
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Jumping off Questions
1.) Did you enjoy the book? (If no, why?)
2.) Did anything in the book surprise you?
3.)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is considered, traditionally, to be a children's novel. Do you agree?
4.) Why, in your opinion, do you think is Alice such a popular cultural icon?
5.) Would you suggest this book to someone who has never read it? Why or why not?
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I was surprised when the Gryphon said this about the Queen: "'It's all her fancy, that: they never executes nobody, you know. Come on!'" (in chapter 9). At first I read it as meaning that the Queen's orders of executing people never really result in executions. I was very happy to read that! But after reading it again, the double negative is worrying. Also, fancy could mean "illusion" or "whim," which are two very different things.
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Yes, it's a book I've read a few times now!
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The scene with the Duchess is always interesting. I was initially familiar with the Disney cartoon, which leaves that out, and I think it's the creepiest part of the book. Also, the gryphon and mockturtle were left out. I looked it up and they were going to be in the cartoon but their scene was deleted, but they were still in a Jell-o commercial.
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I think it can be! It has the whimsy and fun for children's stories. I feel like classics are timeless and have some sort of appeal to everyone, sort of like the Hobbit. It also makes me think of how Neil Gaiman commented that books like Coraline sometimes seem creepier to adults than they do to children because of life experience and different things. I think Alice can be like that.
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I think Alice deals a lot with adventure, sense of self, and whimsy, which are appealing to most everyone. It's a universal theme. I also think the characters and the illustrations for them add something appealing to it. I've always had a connection to the Cheshire Cat.
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Probably, but it depends on their interests.
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