My favorite Story would have to be Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventure in Wonderland". It's a story about a curious little girl and her runaway imagination that both get her in all sorts of interesting situations. My fascination with this story came when I was a child and viewed the Disney animated version of this tale, so for years this was the way I believed the story to be. However, as an adult I did read Lewis Carroll's book and some things were different or more appropriately omitted from the Disney movie than in the book. For example, the chapter about Pig and Pepper. Although I must be honest when I say I didn't really miss that particular chapter simply because it is totally creepy to me. A baby that becomes a pig? Gross!!!!!!!
Why I like the story is because Alice is a curious kid (not unlike myself), who on a rather uneventful day decides to follow her imagination (the white rabbit) down a hole and into a world of the macabre. Alice meets some pretty unique characters along her journey. The Cheshire cat being one of my favorites because he is mysterious and wise. He doesn't rescue Alice everytime she finds herself in trouble but serves to vex her enough into incorporating her own logic and reasoning that eventually leads her back home.
In fact, logic and reason seem to serve as the backdrop of the story. This is interesting considering Lewis Carroll aka: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a scientist and mathematician as well as a philosopher and writer. The book really is thought provoking because sometimes words and questions have duel meanings like when the caterpillar asks Alice upon meeting her: Who are you? When she stumbles with an answer he then demands her to "explain yourself!" Which she replies "I can't explain myself because I am not myself." This makes me wonder if ever demanded to, how well could any of us "explain" ourselves?
Why I like the story is because Alice is a curious kid (not unlike myself), who on a rather uneventful day decides to follow her imagination (the white rabbit) down a hole and into a world of the macabre. Alice meets some pretty unique characters along her journey. The Cheshire cat being one of my favorites because he is mysterious and wise. He doesn't rescue Alice everytime she finds herself in trouble but serves to vex her enough into incorporating her own logic and reasoning that eventually leads her back home.
In fact, logic and reason seem to serve as the backdrop of the story. This is interesting considering Lewis Carroll aka: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a scientist and mathematician as well as a philosopher and writer. The book really is thought provoking because sometimes words and questions have duel meanings like when the caterpillar asks Alice upon meeting her: Who are you? When she stumbles with an answer he then demands her to "explain yourself!" Which she replies "I can't explain myself because I am not myself." This makes me wonder if ever demanded to, how well could any of us "explain" ourselves?
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