Retrieved via, Bedtime-Story. I’d definitely recommend this Short Story as it has an interesting spin off and the concept is somewhat inspiring. It was a looking glass. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. The Looking Glass Brother: The Preposterous, Moving, Hilarious, and Frequently Terrifying Story of My Gilded Age Long Island Family ... His short fiction won a PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize. ( Log Out / Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (also known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass or simply Through the Looking-Glass) is an 1871 novel by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). If you have any comments on any of the stories or my posts, I will gladly share my thoughts. Nellie was impatiently, desperately in need of help and answers for her husbands sickness, typhus. [4], The White Queen offers to hire Alice as her lady's maid and to pay her "twopence a week, and jam every other day." “The Lady in the Looking-Glass,” by Virginia Woolf, tells the story of a woman who examines herself on the exterior and interior. So this is fully suited for anyone in the years between eleven-thirteen. It was not so easy to understand the concept of the short story at first because you are unsure if she is dreaming even through she states at the bottom that “I must have fallen asleep.” And the beginning scene with the crimson, glaring fire makes you want to re-read the story again to fully comprehend. The young woman is too desperate to get married -- she's too invested in marriage for salvation -- for everything -- this I think is the criticism -- the point of the story. Alice says that she doesn't want any jam today, to which the Queen replies, "you couldn't have it if you did want it. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. I liked how the writer was narrating the story in his view point of the dream, and when the characters dialogue was written then he made each character appear different through their dialogue. ‘Oh, you wicked little thing!’ cried Alice, catching up the kitten, and giving it a little kiss to make it understand that it … the looking-glass things had ceased to breathe and lay still in the trance of immortality. 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The book ends with the line "Life, what is it but a dream?". Don't depend on a husband and married life for completion. Until of course the mysterious stranger appears out of the “gleaming and now and then flaring crimson.” Which this relates to a fire, as fire tends to glare and become heavy and full of radiance in crimson. Suddenly Nellie began looking back on her life and seeing all the little details on how her future will soon turn out to become, this time without the looking glass. Alice and the White Queen advance into the chessboard's fifth rank by crossing over a brook together, but at the very moment of the crossing, the Queen transforms into a talking Sheep in a small shop. Alice soon finds herself struggling to handle the oars of a small rowboat, where the Sheep annoys her with (seemingly) nonsensical shouting about "crabs" and "feathers". Out of a brood of five or six one was sure to die.” She was worrying of how she could barely look after her husband but oh so wanted too. What's there to do? Chapter Five – Wool and Water: Alice next meets the White Queen, who is very absent-minded but boasts of (and demonstrates) her ability to remember future events before they have happened. He lives in New York City. Change ). Develop yourself. Loved this article about the benefits of reading. I definitely believe that this short story would be perfect for a year twelve book club as the vocabulary is stretched enough to be for even a year thirteen and the confusing concept of this short story might possibly acquire the mind set and frame of at least a year eleven. Lewis Carroll decided to suppress a scene involving what was described as "a wasp in a wig" (possibly a play on the commonplace expression "bee in the bonnet"). “I must have fallen asleep,” she thought with a sigh of relief.” This evidently shows that the whole short story was a dream. "The Truth About Pawn Promotion: The Development of the Chess Motif in Victorian Fiction" [dissertation].