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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a fantasy book which contains the elements of the adulthood and the childhood. When Alice looked at her sister’s book, which does not contain any pictures or conversation, she started to think about adult stuff. Later her journey to the adult world started in a funny and fantastic way. The changes in her body and the events that she came across show us her understanding of the adult world. In Wonderland, she sees events that she never experienced in her life. She attends a court for the first time and understands that she has to obey court rules like being silent. These events show that as she is growing she faces with loss of childhood innocence. The aim of this essay is to examine the theme of loss of childhood innocence as passing into adulthood in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. One of the most important themes that can be seen in every chapter in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is loss of childhood innocence. Alice is the only human being in Wonderland and the other animals are grown up. For this reason, other animals treat her like an adult and get offended by her careless language using. “She sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face – and she is such a nice soft thing to nurse – and she’s such a capital one for catching mice – oh I beg your pardon!” cried Alice again, for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt certain it must be really offended. “We won’t talk about her anymore if you’d rather not” said Alice. “We, indeed!” cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end of his tail” (Carroll, 16). We see that people have to be careful about what they are saying because it might hurt someone else’s feelings. Here, Alice hurts the Mouse’s feelings and realizes the mistake that she has done. In real life when a child do something bad, it seems him/her as a play. However, Alice realizes every time that she has to be careful,