Elisa 11/02/2013
Essay
Adventures in Wonderland is a book that can be read by people of any age, because it shows a lot of psychological and philosophical aspects trough puzzles and self reflection. The main character, Alice, is a child in transition to adolescence, who has to face some confusing growth problems that also affects her inner being.
Alice starts regretting her new forced life, saying that “it was much pleasanter at home”, a nostalgic feeling of the comfort that a child like her used to have. She also doesn't like to receive so many orders by mice and rabbits, which can be understood as several orders a grown person receives to survive in the society.
The kid gets so confused because she has too many different sizes in a day, a very common feeling of teenagers, because they can't do some things that are too childish and sometimes things that are just for adults; so Alice starts not recognizing herself: “I— I hardly know, sir, just at present — at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”
In the end, her older sister, a grown figure, thinks of how her little sister will cross her growing up process without losing the beauty and purity of an child heart. In a very romantic view, the sister's beautiful words expect that Alice wins this journey by becoming an adult that doesn't let her inner child die, and never let the dream of Wonderland be forgotten. Because Wonderland is a representation of the childhood, the fuel of the nostalgic good memories that Alice got.