Look I know it's been a while since we've chatted about the little blonde hair girl looking through the keyhole here. But yet I know of one whole story that I've not fallen through with you as a reading crowd. So let's break a mirror or two shall we? and see where the other side leads........
Hello Once again Little Miss Liddell,
Okay, I know everyone is scathing their heads wondering who is Miss Liddell?, right....?, Well the clues are already right in front of you if you didn't realize it?, with me writing the very text of this very entry in the color of dress the little girl known as Alice is famous for wearing in all of these images that I found colorized
some time ago by the late artist known as
Sir John Tenniel (B:February 28,1820-D:February 25,1914 ) and her dreamer of learning and creator Charles Lutwidge Dodgson who went by the pen name of Lewis Carroll (B: January 27,1832-D:January 14,1898
). Now I know everyone wants to know where the other parts of "Alice versus Alice" are, huh? Well they will be coming very soon, but this is about the original telling of "Through The Looking Glass" and all that it entails.... first of all the one main thing that is very different about "through the looking glass" from "Alice's Adventures in wonderland" is that it is in fact about playing chess and when Alice while playing with one of her cat's babies which is also here named Dinah like in the first story. She comes across the idea of exploring her thoughts of pretending when looking out of the window pane and seeing snow sticking to the window an thinking of what makes the white fluffy snow. "during the time of thinking of the how snow is doing this?," she is very vivid after all ,I'm only guessing here but I think, she wants to be the queen of a very special place? The place happens to be a drawing room. Alice had just asked "the kitty" as she called before that she was holding if "the kitty" wanted to be one of the queens in the place known as the looking glass house. Alice went climbing on the mantle of a fire place within the drawing room and found herself now playing within a actual glass structure she was interacting now with pieces of a chess board that were now alive. As she studies all of the pieces movements she happens to notice that in part some of her pretending or whatever is going on happenstance wise that even though she hasn't shrunk like last time that she will have to use her wits and cunning to figure out how to understand what is going on especially when both the Red queen and king offer her the greatest bit of fun a kid of any age could have with a living chess set which is figure out the lessons of life. It is at the end of chapter one where we meet Lewis Carroll's poem called Jabberwocky which he made into a character with John Tenniel very Monstrous illustration
seen here. (which I'm sure had no such bearing on his looks from Zenescope presses Alice in Wonderland look
or does it you be the judge?) but very much like in the original Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Alice's first thing she wishes to visit is the garden. Throughout chapter two she talks to flowers of all kinds. Which when the animated film by Disney came out in 1951, this was the only part of "Through The Looking Glass" actually included....or is it? In truth though, after being chatty with the many flowers Alice is with the Red queen and is starting her very own journey of being her own dream of a queen, but she must move like one, from here on out and her starting point is as any starting piece of chess "A Pawn". Which she is in every format of her tale being told, she is always trapped, in fact the only thing that ever does change of the character is she ages but ever so slowly.
With the start of chapter three she is looking at what we would call the animal world of the looking glass world,but before she starts looking into that part of the trek, she gets on a train to move to here next square. On the board and on the train she meets a man in her car that is made entirely of white paper and he ask her what her name is for she should know that if not where her final destination is she should be able to identify herself to the train's ticket collector when he wants know if the little girl has the right of using the railway. After the train ride Alice finds herself talking to a gnat about the understanding importance of why things are named at all, Alice befriends a little fawn as she tries of that very lesson taught by the gnat and wander through the woods where she comes upon two little boys dressed exactly alike.
The two little boys, turn out to be Tweedledum and Tweedledee who are both standing so still Alice even wonders are
,they even alive at at all? The young lads seem to be at odds with each other over in a battle between them, but when they saw the little girl named Alice they decided to put their differences aside for neither had apparently ever seen someone as lost as she was. The asked her if they could share a poem they know with her, she had kept thinking of a tune in her head. That went like this "Tweedledum and Tweedledee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedledum said Tweedledee Had spoiled his nice new rattle. Just then flew down a monstrous crow, As black as a tar barrel Which frightened the heroes so, They quite forgot their quarrel." This was one of the many things Carroll was famous for, putting poetry throughout all of his works, even today though when we read it, it seems rather ( thought provoking, at least to me it was while reading it, more on this later). These two characters were very playful with their interaction with miss Liddle, for though they were to be a blockade of letting her view what was to come they taught her how to be patient in understanding the need of sharing. In chapter five Alice happen to find that she can put part of what Tweedledum and Tweedledee have given her about choices a chance when she finds in that same forest the counterpart of the aforementioned Red queen the White queen in need of help. In exchange for that help the White queen tells Alice of her own kingdom being taking over by something that can only be adverted by Alice hurrying on her way.......In chapter six Alice just so happens to meet a very smart yoke of a guy named Humpty Dumpty (?), Who happens to help Alice piece together everything she knows so far, in grand mathematical way through yet one thing that is frustrating her which so happen to go back to the good ol boys known as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. After her time with Mister Dumpty, Alice finds that she is in the middle of a heated battle between a loin and a creature that shall remain nameless, just in case my niece Heidi comes to read this one, I don't want any leaked surprises to be revealed as of yet. Still I guess I can tell you that it seems that the Mad Hatter is in "Through the Looking Glass" as a "bread and butter" prisoner of where the battle takes place between the as yet revealed creature and the lion. Still Alice finds even more problematic setbacks, before her journey to being a queen from a pawn when she comes across two knights one Red and one White, whom want to surround the forthcoming queen in capturing her in chapter nine. It so happens that even though he is a bit lofty the White knight wins in getting Alice to help him in achieving the help a old man needs on the way to the castle. After helping the White knight be assured of his own confidence of being a skilled teacher as well Alice goes on the final part of her quest to be a queen. In chapter ten of "Through the looking Glass", we see that Alice must find a way to outsmart the two queens that have been trying to hinder/hamper her goal all along which she does by singing both to sleep. When she comes to the castle she is still perplexed when she can't enter her own kingdom, she has to have the help of a frog to even enter the front door. Once inside there is a party for the newest queen of the land. Till she confronts the White queen one last time by shaking her......and it turns out that Alice sees not a queen of any color but her Dinah's kitten trying to wake her up out of a deep slumber! In the end Alice still hasn't learn to be kind to everything around her for it turns out the kitten was the Red queen and Alice herself was the White one. Alice wonders what would have happen in that dream kingdom after all and so do you the reader.
Okay now let's get to why I was wanting to read this
very book to begin with? I know that when I was very little I had loved cartoons as much as I did toys and science fiction. I also remember that I loved making stuff up as any young kid would like to do? I recall being an animal in "The Zoo" when we had a babysitter. We would make "The Zoo" out of wooden chairs and blankets, the babysitter her name was Sherry Smith and was our next door neighbor, and she thought that was the greatest form of play ever. I think the reason I loved it so much was because we would all myself, my brother Micheal, and my sister Kylie would be a animal of our own choice and Sherry was "The Zoo Keeper" but there was a time when she would let each of us be "The Zoo Keeper" as well, I have to say being kid can be always awesome,because you need to cherish those moments of being able to strive in being youthful while you can for one day everyone wakes up wondering did I do enough as a kid of playing hard or have fun with my friends...... The other reason I truly wanted to read this classic story along with it's predecessor was I wanted to go and explore a kind of feeling from reading where I have had to actually think beyond "it's enjoyable to have what I'm use to of reading in my comfort zone, besides that I also recently went and read the fantasy novel seen here
which is super creative in it's own right because it's creator like Dodgson of Alice's tale made up everything with in his story. The only true difference is Alice is based off of the little lady shown her
who was one of many of the children in the Liddle family that Dodgson cared for her name was Alice by the way, she lived from May 4, 1852 in Westminster London and died at the age of eighty two Westerham Kent, England on November 6,1934, this was who the fictional Alice was based off of. Now as you can see I have in the up above summary of this very tale of of "Through the Looking glass and what Alice found there?" I have left many open questionable things, but of the main two I'm sure you'll all know the answer to one, yet be perplexed or at least left with quizzical thought every time you look in the mirror kinda like the old myth of the rhyme of calling out "BLOODY MARY three times in a darken bath room" or maybe just leaving you struck on the other side of Wonderland, I don't really know? If you recall earlier I had said that Walt Disney productions went and used only one part of "Through the Looking Glass" in their animated movie of "Alice in Wonderland" from nineteen fifty one, well it was a little bit off because besides of shards of a talking garden in it, it also had both this fragment of glassiness in from the tale I just recounted from above. They included Tweedledee and Tweedledum, see that was easy right? But here is the other one and after writing both the question and answer down here I will give you my take on it even if it is wrong okay.......So who was it that created good ol Humpty Dumpty fable? Was it Lewis Carroll himself?, for here is how it goes according to what way it is written in " Through The Looking Glass" "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All of the king's horse and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." Now in modern tellings of this nursery ryhme as far back as I know the last part of the fourth lyric has changed as much as I have always known it to be, "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All of the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again" I do believe that in every part of my soul for some reason or other that Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll did come up with the original flow of the classic nursery rhyme. Now as I said before when I last said was talking about what novel series I'd be reading after the Alice books it is these seen here
and so far even though I'm still just a few chapters in on the book where the girl is kissing the guy on the cover, I can only say this, it is what you need if you love your science fiction with a bit of humor in it, for darn tooting sure! One lat thing about this Alice tale early this past summer I had happen to of found in my hunt for images of "Alice in Wonderland"
these two cool lyrical posters that happen tell both stories in their whole entirely. Which is a pretty neat way of every thing in it's own right is odd and strange for where I found these, I also saw a poster of the William Shakespeare stories of "A tale of Two cities" and that one had one of the cities on top of another.....and then there was his "Hamlet" but it's been so long I can't remember how the text was picture wise, and one last thing about "Through the Looking Glass" at it's end Carroll takes the little girl's name and makes it into a poem. Yet if you want to know how it goes.....I say invest in a copy of this story or both.
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