Alice in Wonderland: Part B

Alice found herself in a court room, but this wasn’t an unfamiliar space. She knew who most of the figures were from the jury, the judge, and others. She noticed that before the trial had even started, the jury were already scribbling things on their note sheets. “Stupid things” was written on each of the jury members’ notes for some weird reason. Eventually the white rabbit blew in his horn three times and the trail started. The Rabbit read a little poem about the Queen of Hearts making some tarts, and then they proceeded further. In came the first – the mad hatter. The King really didn’t like the hatter, He questioned the hatter on if his hat was stolen, but the hatter explained that he sold hats for a living.

Alice was looking on as the hatter was interrogated, and as she did when she first fell down the rabbit hole, she began to grow enormously tall. The dormouse sitting next to her complained that she was taking up too much space.

The hatter went on, explaining that he was a poor man. He argued with the rabbit about what was said, and the king kept threatening to have him executed. The hatter told him everything he knew, and the judge ordered him to leave the court afterward. On his way out, the Queen ordered the guards, “Off with his head,” but the hatter had already dashed away. He knew that the Queen was likely to make this order, so he made a quick break for the exit. Fortunately, he was fast enough to make it away. The trail continued with the Duchess’s cook. The King ordered her to give evidence but she refused. She eventually provided a little bit of information.

Again the court moved on to the next witness, which came as a big surprise when the next witnessed was called…. “Alice”.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carol (1865)

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Reading Notes: Alice in Wonderland part A

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One day Alice was sitting on the river bank, bored as could be, when a curious rabbit hopped by her. In a panicked fashion, the rabbit reached into his waistcoat and pulled out a watch and said he was going to be late. Alice had never seen anything of the sort, so she got to her feet and ran after the rabbit because she was curious as to what it would do. As she was running after the talking, and well dressed, rabbit, she was just in time to see him hop down a large rabbit hole. Instantly, Alice knew she had to run after it, so she hopped into the rabbit hole as well. After entering the hole, Alice found herself falling, but she was falling so slowly. She remembered having so long to look around as she fell. The walls of what appeared to actually be a well, seemed to have bookshelves and cupboards lining the walls. It was the most curious well she had ever seen. After a while Alice questioned whether she would ever find the bottom of the because she felt like she had been falling for ages. Eventually she became very sleepy and when she woke up she had finally found the bottom. She wasn't hurt, but she didn't know where she was. She saw the rabbit and chased after him again, but he disappeared into one of the rooms in the building she was in. To her surprise, every room in there was locked. Alice found a golden key lying around, and it unlocked a tiny door with a little hole on the other side that wasn't even big enough to fit her head through. Still, she could see the most fabulous garden on the other side, and she longed to be there. She went back to the main room and found a bottle with a liquid that she presumed to be poison. After inspection, she decided to give it a shot, but then she began to shrink so small she couldn't have been a foot tall. Another problem arose, though, because she couldn't reach the key which she had sat on the little table. She was terribly sad because she thought she would never get out, but then her eye caught a little box under the table that said "eat me". She ate the cake inside and grew to the ceiling of the room she was in. She was now nine feet tall, and again sad because she didn't know how to get out...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carol (1865)