Through The Looking Glass Paper
Amara Alhamwi
AP English 3
November 3, 2012 Through the Looking Glass In his stories, Carroll blurs the boundaries between being awake and being asleep so it becomes difficult to tell when reality ends and a dream begins. Carroll uses vivid description to show the different boundaries between being awake and asleep. Alice, being used as a perfect example to prove it with the reality and dream Looking Glass House, Carroll uses many other characters in the house showing the boundaries, and in the Looking Glass house a lot of what happens, Carroll describes the difference. In the beginning of the story, while taking a nap, Alice wakes up to pick up Kitty to bring her over to the chair. While that happens, Alice falls asleep and then goes into the mirror, which happens in her dream. Throughout going into the mirror, Alice is seeing elements from reality, combing with elements from the Looking Glass House. Alice then discovers that while looking through the mirror, that her room is on the other side. The room being almost the same as her own room, which is proving how being awake and asleep becomes difficult to tell whether you are in reality or in a dream. As Alice walks through the Looking Glass House, she starts to recognize some of the objects she sees. She realizes that they are objects from her room, such as pictures and a clock. They come to life and start to talk. As Alice goes on through the house, she does not realize that everything has to be done backwards. Also the characters move forwards while time does not move backward. They will know when something will happen before it happens. For example, the While Queen sentences the King's messenger way before he commits the crime. So being that she went through the mirror, anything that happens, becomes backwards. In reality, doing something backwards would be unusual, but not in the Looking Glass House. After leaving the forest Alice meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who are identical twins. They both
AP English 3
November 3, 2012 Through the Looking Glass In his stories, Carroll blurs the boundaries between being awake and being asleep so it becomes difficult to tell when reality ends and a dream begins. Carroll uses vivid description to show the different boundaries between being awake and asleep. Alice, being used as a perfect example to prove it with the reality and dream Looking Glass House, Carroll uses many other characters in the house showing the boundaries, and in the Looking Glass house a lot of what happens, Carroll describes the difference. In the beginning of the story, while taking a nap, Alice wakes up to pick up Kitty to bring her over to the chair. While that happens, Alice falls asleep and then goes into the mirror, which happens in her dream. Throughout going into the mirror, Alice is seeing elements from reality, combing with elements from the Looking Glass House. Alice then discovers that while looking through the mirror, that her room is on the other side. The room being almost the same as her own room, which is proving how being awake and asleep becomes difficult to tell whether you are in reality or in a dream. As Alice walks through the Looking Glass House, she starts to recognize some of the objects she sees. She realizes that they are objects from her room, such as pictures and a clock. They come to life and start to talk. As Alice goes on through the house, she does not realize that everything has to be done backwards. Also the characters move forwards while time does not move backward. They will know when something will happen before it happens. For example, the While Queen sentences the King's messenger way before he commits the crime. So being that she went through the mirror, anything that happens, becomes backwards. In reality, doing something backwards would be unusual, but not in the Looking Glass House. After leaving the forest Alice meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who are identical twins. They both