Alice in wonderland

Book Report

Name of the story: Alice in wonderland

Time: Unspecified summer afternoon

Place: Near the river, in wonderland.

Summarize the story

Alice was sitting on the river shore, with her sister who was reading an uninteresting book full of letters, without any illustrations in it. Alice was tired of boredom and heat, and while she was thinking about making flower wreaths, she got interrupted by the talking rabbit who passed by, wearing a tail-coat and a watch. While rabbit was criticizing himself for being late, Alice decided to follow him, but he disappeared into the lair of a bush.

Alice followed him into the hole, but she was scared because she fell deeper. She kept on falling into darkness, unaware of the speed, time, and distance of her fall. She kept on thinking that she could end up at the other side of the world, where people were walking at the top of their heads, as in New Zealand. Numerous questions appeared in her mind, and as the dark was becoming lighter, she noticed a lot of objects falling down the hole with her, as bookshelves, closets, clocks, geography maps etc.

She took a jar of orange jam from one of the shelves but soon returned the jar back as it was empty. Alice started thinking about her cat, and started to wonder would the cat be suitable for catching bats. Suddenly she fell on a big pile of leaves, and her fall ended.

Alice landed in a long hallway, at the end of which she saw a White Rabbit leaving in a hurry. She tried to follow him, so she entered a long, dimmed room with a lot of doors in it. After seeing a key on a glass table, she tried opening the doors with it, but the key wasn’t fitting any of them. Finally, at the end of the room behind the curtain, she found small doors who were easily opened with the key, but she was too big to walk through. The door led into a beautiful garden, filled with flowers and water fountains.

From that moment on, all the impossible things begin on happening. Alice returned to the glass desk, where she found a glass bottle with “Drink me” note. After drinking the potion, she shrunk enough to fit the door, but soon she realized that she forgot the key at the glass table, so she started crying until she found a biscuit in a glass box.

The message on the glass box said “Eat me”, so Alice ate the cookie, growing in height until she hit the ceiling with her head. She started to cry again, bursting into a lot of tears, aware that now she is too big to enter the garden.

Soon she heard tapping sounds and saw a White Rabbit wearing white gloves and a fan, talking about him being late to see the Dutchess. Alice spoke to him, and he got really scared of her, throwing the gloves and fan while he was running away. Alice took those things, put gloves on her hands and started cooling herself with a fan.

Suddenly, she started shrinking again, so she took the key and left all the other things when she was the exact size for passing through the doors. She found herself in a pond of salty water, made out of her tears. She had to swim and also met a lot of animals swimming in water as well.

A lot of ducks, frogs, mice were swimming while eagles, owls, and parrots were flying. She finally got to the shore, where she met more animals, as turkeys, colorful lizard, giant frog, bears, bunnies and a lot of different birds as well. While she was shaking off the water of her clothes, a White Rabbit appeared and told her to hurry up and report to the Dutchess who probably has some assignment for her.

Alice was very surprised as the White Rabbit kept on explaining to her that she has to work something and that he is overwhelmed with work as well. Alice replied he treats her like a servant, which made White Rabbit run away, and a caterpillar who was listening to their conversation fainting. Alice used this opportunity for trying to escape, but she was too small, shorter than the leaves of grass.

At the top of one mushroom was a caterpillar smoking a hookah, who advised Alice telling her the Dutchess isn’t important at all, and the Queen is ruling the army of paper playing cards. She also warned Alice that the White Rabbit will try to dress her using the leaves, and the Mad Hatter is boiling rocks.

Alice also met a smiling Siamese cat sitting at the nearest tree. The cat got offended by Alice being surprised with her ability to laugh, so she apologized for the cat who warned her that she’ll never get an invitation for visiting the Queen. Alice kept going and asked about the White Rabbit all the other animals she met on the way. Animals didn’t know where he was, but somehow she found him on her own.

After seeing the White Rabbit, she met the fish who took Alice to the Dutchess. The Dutchess was throwing meat,pots, pans and skillets while she yelled at her servants at the same time. Dutchess told Alice to get ready for visiting the Queen, but fish was mocking the Dutchess that the Queen will never let her near. Fish magically turned into a swallow and left after Dutchess threatened to eat her, so Alice and the Dutchess went together to see the Queen.

After entering the courtyard, Alice was surprised by the look of the castle, and the playing card army marching around as well. They announced the arrival of the Queen, followed by her King. Seeing the Dutchess, Queen ordered the army to put her in prison, but the Dutchess presented Alice as an exotic animal who she brought as a royal gift.

Alice got offended, telling them she attended the school, and is capable of writing, reading and reciting various poems. The Queen evaluated her abilities as useless, giving her a task of watching the flowers who forgot to bloom. Alice got angry and declined Queen’s order, wishing to grow back to her normal size and leave this crazy land. Dutchess ordered her to calm down before she provokes the Queen.

As she entered the other part of the yard where she was assigned to her duty, Alice met a lot of turtles and a lion with wings. One old turtle was dancing with the lion a rather funny dance, and they made Alice burst in laughter, although the turtle was crying the whole time.

Alice found out that the turtle lost the bet of winning the White Rabbit in the race, so she had to give him her hat, her symbol of dignity. Alice tried to cheer her up, but the turtle remained broken-hearted as the Hatter Bill refused to make her a new hat.

Queen decided to put Bill the Hatter on a trial due to his laziness. Soon, the trumpets announced the proclamation of a verdict. Bill appeared in the courthouse with a cup of tea in his hand, refusing of letting it go, but decisive to drink it in the name of the King, making the soldiers laugh.

The White Rabbit was in charge for reading the verdict, and Bill the Hatter got a sentence of spending a week behind the bars. He reminded the Queen he can’t make hats in prison, but she replied that she is capable of surviving a week without a new hat. The Queen spotted Alice and ordered for her to be imprisoned and beheaded as well.

The White Rabbit tried to talk some sense into the Queen, explaining that the Alice isn’t an animal, yet she is a part of a species referred as a “child”, and he has seen a lot of them in a land very far away.

While he was talking, Alice saw a bottle with a sign “Drink me”, so she did, so she went on growing so tall that she broke the roof of the courthouse with her head. Queen ordered the army to arrest her, but Alice shook them off and told the Queen she is going home.

Alice heard the voice of her sister waking her up and telling her she had enough of sleep. Her sister was still reading her book at the river shore, and Alice was lucky for waking up in the ordinary world, but also feeling a bit sad because of her leaving the Wonderland.

She told her sister about her vivid dream and then went home for a cup of tea. Her sister closed the book she was reading and started to think about Alice, her stories, and her noble heart.

Her sister realized that Alise will grow up into person fond of children and become a woman who will enjoy in telling tales and fairy tales to them, perhaps even the story about Wonderland as well. She will talk about her childhood and always care for other living beings.