Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

• Chapter 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole

  • Alice watches a rabbit with a waist coat and a pocket watch talk to itself
  • Chases the rabbit down a rabbit hole in the lawn
  • Finds a room that had doors of many sizes
  • Glass table to key to the smallest door (hidden behind curtain)
  • Door too big for Alice. Drinks from a bottle that causes Alice to shrink
  • Alice is small cannot reach the key that was left on the table
  • Finds cake beneath the table and eats it

• Chapter 2: The Pool of Tears

  • Alice grows very tall. Starts crying as there is no one to speak with her
  • The rabbit comes from the door, hears Alice’s voice, gets scared and runs
  • It drops its gloves and hand fan behind
  • Alice uses the hand fan as its hot. Fan causes her to shrink
  • Alice falls in the pool created by her tears
  • Mets a rat and various birds that swim with her towards the shore

• Chapter 3: A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

  • At the shore everyone tries to dry themselves
  • The mouse tells a story. Everyone is still wet by the end of it
  • Dodo proposes they have caucus race. A race without a defined start & end
  • After some time of running everyone is dry. Dodo says Alice will give prices
  • Alice had candy which she hands to everyone
  • Alice asks the mouse to tell its life story
  • Mouse gets angry as Alice was not paying attention and walks away
  • Alice talks about her cat eating birds which causes everyone to leave

• Chapter 4: The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill

  • The rabbit walks by searching for his hand fan and glove
  • Seems Alice and thinks she is his maid and tells her to fetch his things
  • Alice runs to the rabbits house finds the required things along with a bottle
  • Alice drinks from the bottle and turns into a giant
  • Calls his friends/co-workers and tries to get the giant (Alice) out. All fails
  • Eventually throws pebbles threw the window that turns into cake
  • Cake turns Alice small. Alice runs from the house before she is caught
  • In the forest Alice runs into a caterpillar that is smoking a hookah

• Chapter 5: Advice from a Caterpillar

  • The caterpillar has a conversion and then slithers into the grass
  • Says the opposite sides of the mushroom can make her small or large
  • Tries one side and becomes small. Tries the other and becomes very large
  • Alice becomes larger than trees and has a conversion with a bird
  • Bird things Alice is a snake and is trying to steal its eggs
  • Alice carefully eats the mushroom and returns to her right side
  • Comes to a clearing that has a house that is smaller than her
  • Uses mushroom to shrink to right size

• Chapter 6: Pig and Pepper

  • A fish-footman raps on the door and a frog-footman opens the door
  • A large envelope is handed to the frog-footman
  • Invitation from the queen for the Duchess for playing croquet
  • Alice enters the house were the Duchess is nursing a child
  • There is an cook is making soup and a Cheshire cat was grinning
  • The Duchess tells the cook to cut its head at which Alice is surprised
  • Alice speaks with Duchess who hands over the child to go and meet queen
  • Alice takes the child and leaves the house who slowly turns into a pig
  • Alice meets the Cheshire cat who tells her about the Hatter and March Hare
  • Alice decides to visit the March Hare

• Chapter 7: A Mad Tea-Party

  • Beneath the tree was a table with the March Hare, Hatter and a Dormouse
  • They were having a tea-party. They do not want Alice to join
  • Alice joins in regardless. They talk about time, riddles and the Hatter sings
  • They ask the Dormouse to tell a story
  • The story is constantly interrupted by Alice
  • Hatter questions Alice’s manners
  • Alice gets angry and leave. Sees a tree that had a door
  • Ends up in the door with the glass table and key
  • Use key to open the door and uses the mushroom to become the right size

• Chapter 8: The Queen’s Croquet-Ground

  • Alice finds 2 Cards trying to paint a white rose tree red
  • The Queen had wanted a red rose tree but they planted a white one
  • The procession of the royals starts the cards bowed down to their faces
  • Alice did not bow when the Queen was beside her she got angry
  • Queen wanted to behead Alice but the King pleaded that she is a child
  • Queen invites Alice to play croquet. The game follows no rules
  • Flamingo, hedgehogs and card solider loops are used to pay the game
  • The queen ordered to behead anyone that tries to win against her
  • The Cheshire Cat’s head appears in the and talks with Alice
  • The King sees that cat and asks it to kiss his hand
  • Cat declines. King asks Queen to have the cat beheaded
  • Executioner, king and queen get into a quarrel
  • They are not sure on how to behead the cat as it does not have a body
  • They ask Alice for a solution. Alice says to ask the Duchess as its her cat
  • While they fetch the Duchess the cat disappears

• Chapter 9: The Mock Turtle’s Story

  • The Queen takes Alice to a Gryphon to meet the Mock Turtle
  • The Mock Turtle is always sad and sobbing
  • The turtle tells Alice that he once was a real turtle
  • Tells about the lessons (length reduces each day) he had taken in school

• Chapter 10: The Lobster-Quadrille

  • The Mock Turtle talks about Lobster Quadrille (type of dance)
  • They ask Alice about her adventure and agrees its quite curious
  • A voice calls out to them from a distance that the trail is starting

• Chapter 11: Who Stole the Tarts?

  • The trail is about the stolen tarts
  • The King is the judge. Jury consists of 12 birds and animals
  • The rabbit was responsible for making the announcements
  • The hatter is called as the first witness but is to scared to speak normally
  • The Duchess cook is called as the second witness
  • The Dormouse passes a comment. Queen asks to remove him from court
  • In the commotion the cook disappears
  • The rabbit does not have a third witness and calls for Alice

• Chapter 12: Alice’s Evidence

  • King asks Alice what does she know about the tarts
  • Alice says she does not know anything. Rabbit produces a letter
  • The letter contains the poem. On reading King declares the Knave duality
  • Alice insists the song is nonsense and does not mean anything
  • Alice grows to her original size. Queen demands that Alice is beheaded
  • Alice says she isn’t shared as they are just cards
  • The cards leap into the air to attack Alice
  • Alice wakes up from her sleep on her sisters lap and her about the dream

Through the Looking-Glass

• Chapter 1: Looking-Glass House

  • Alice was sitting on a armchair and was talking with Dinah (cat)
  • Thinks about the Looking-Glass House. Climbs the fireplace
  • Surprised to see she can climb through the glass
  • Looking-Glass House live photos with old man face clock
  • On the table is an chess set with pieces that are alive
  • The White Queens daughter (Lily) starts crying and is at the end
  • Alice lifts the Queen and places her next to Lily. Queen is shocked
  • Alice realized the pieces cannot hear and see her
  • Queen calls for the King. Alice lifted and places the King next to Queen
  • Both of them are shocked and terrified at what just happened
  • Alice kinds a book at had a poem about the Jabberwocky
  • Alice decides to inspect the world and leaves the house

• Chapter 2: The Garden of Live Flowers

  • Alice tries to go up the hill to look at the entire garden
  • Every time she ends up at the house. Alice sees that the flowers can talk
  • The Red Queen appears. Alice tries to walk to her but reaches the house
  • Alice walks in the opposite direction of the hill and end in front of the Queen
  • They go to the top of the hill. Alice sees the country is like a chess board
  • Alice says should also like to play. Queen says she can be the While Spawn
  • Alice says she should like to become a Queen
  • They run very fast for a while but seem to be in the same location
  • Queen gives Alice direction on how to get to the eight square
  • In the eight square she can become Queen. Queen vanishes

• Chapter 3: Looking-Glass Insects

  • Alice made it to the train where the conductor asked for ticked
  • Alice said she does not have any ticket
  • In her cabin where various animal passengers
  • One of them was a insect (Gant)
  • There was a river on the way and the train had to jump over it
  • When the train jumped Alice fell out of the train and was in the woods
  • The Gant and Alice talked about different types of insects
  • Alice saw another wood and went into it and forgot her name
  • Once out of the woods she remembered her name again

• Chapter 4: Tweedledum and Tweedledee

  • Dum and Dee great Alice and they dance by holding each others had
  • Dum and Dee sing the “Walrus and Carpenter” song to Alice
  • Alice hears a loud voice, Dee and Dum tells her its the Red King sleeping
  • Dum saw a rattle and confirmed that she could see a rattle
  • Dum informed it was a new rattle that was spoiled by Dee
  • They decide they need to fight. They find all kinds of items to wear
  • When they were about to fight a monstrous cow appear and they run away
  • Alice hides behind a tree in the woods. A shawl comes flying by

• Chapter 5: Wool and Water

  • Alice catches the shawl and notices the White Queen looking for it
  • Alice handed her the shawl and helped fix her cloths
  • The Queen starts screaming and tells Alice she is about to prick her hand
  • The Queen says her memory words both ways (knows about future events)
  • The Queen looses the shawl again and crosses a brook to catch it
  • The Queen turns into a sheep knitting cloths and Alice is in a shop
  • The show has numerous items that move away when Alice reaches them
  • Sheep asks Alice if she can row and hand her the two knitting needles
  • The needles turn in oars and they are in a boat
  • The river contains rushes (plants) which Alice tries to catch
  • They soon are back in the show. Sheep asks what does Alice want to buy
  • Alice buys a egg. Sheep says its at the end of the shop on a chair
  • As Alice gets closer the chair and everything around it turns into trees

• Chapter 6: Humpty Dumpty

  • The egg got larger and larger and started looking more like a human
  • Alice spoke with Humpty Dumpty. He explained how he is good with words
  • Alice asks him to explain the meaning of Jabberwocky
  • He explains the meaning of the words in the first verse
  • Humpty Dumpty sings Alice a song and then closes his eye
  • Alice leaves him and hears a loud crash in the forest

• Chapter 7: The Lion and the Unicorn

  • Alice sees thousands of soldiers running through the woods
  • Alice meets the White King who says sent away and the soldiers and horses
  • Alice spot an messenger return. King says he had two messengers
  • Messenger says the Lion and Unicorn are at it again
  • The go to the town were the Lion and Unicorn and fighting
  • They meet the second messenger who is having tea with bread and butter
  • The fighting stops for the day the King orders for bread to be brought out
  • Then a cake is bought out which is handed to Alice for distribution
  • The cake pieces seem to return whenever its cut
  • Unicorn tells Alice the correct way to cut a looking-glass cake
  • Long drums start playing. Alice crosses a brook and covers her ears

• Chapter 8: It’s My Own Invention

  • When Alice opened her eyes everything leaving the cake tray vanished
  • Alice taught she was dreaming or rather the Red King was dreaming
  • The Right Knight appears and says that Alice is his prisoner
  • The White Knight appears and says he will save Alice
  • They have a fight and in the end White King wins
  • Alice tells the Knight she wants to become a Queen
  • The Knight guides Alice to the edge of the woods and leaves
  • Alice crosses the brook (Square 8) and finds a golden crown on her head

• Chapter 9: Queen Alice

  • Alice meets the White and Red Queen
  • They tell Alice she needs to take an exam to become the Queen
  • They also say Alice will be holding a feast for them
  • They ask Alice questions which she cannot answer and fall asleep
  • Alice walks away and finds door with her name on it
  • Alice hears songs being sung for her from inside
  • Alice opens the door and is seated between the Queens
  • Alice is introduced to dishes, who great her and are then taken away
  • Alice to told to give and speech before which strange things happen
  • Alice is annoyed and pulls the tablecloth to upsets everything
  • The Red Queen turns into dolls which Alice picks up

• Chapter 10: Shaking

  • Alice shook the Red Queen doll and its turned softer and rounder

• Chapter 11: Waking

  • Alice notices the doll was a cat after all

• Chapter 12: Which Dreamed It?

  • Alice asks her black kitten if she was the Red Queen
  • Similarly she asks Snowdrop (White kitten) if she was the White Queen
  • She asks Dinah if she was Humpty Dumpty
  • Alice asks Red Queen (cat) to settle once and for all who’s dream it was
  • Cat keeps licking feet (Alice thinks it could have been the Red kings dream)