Tuesday, 5 May 2009

The Story-Alice in Wonderland

*Alice is sitting outside with hersister when she spots a white rabbit. Fascinated by the rabbit she follows it down the hole.
*At the bottom of the long fall she lands in a long hallway full of doors.
*There is also a key on the table, which unlocks a tiny door; through this door, she spies a beautiful garden.
*The door is too small, she finds a drink with a note that asks her to drink it.
*There is later a cake with a note that tells her to eat; Alice uses both, but she cannot seem to get a handle on things, and is always either too large to get through the door or too small to reach the key.
*While she is tiny, she slips and falls into a pool of water. She realizes that this little sea is made of tears she cried while a giant. She swims to shore with a number of animals, most notably a sensitive mouse, but manages to offend everyone by talking about her cat's ability to catch birds and mice.
*Alone, she goes on through the wood and runs into the White Rabbit.

illustration by Ralph Steadman

*He mistakes her for his maid and sends her to fetch some things from his house. While in the White Rabbit's home, she drinks another potion and becomes too big to get out through the door. She eventually finds a little cake which, when eaten, makes her small again.
*She comes across a Caterpillar
sitting on a mushroom. He gives her some valuable advice, as well as a valuable tool: the two sides of the mushroom, which can make Alice grow larger and smaller as she wishes. While stretched out, she pokes her head into the branches of a tree and meets a Pigeon.
*The pigeon is convinced that Alice is evil, and although Alice tries to reason with the Pigeon he tells her to be off.
*Alice goes back to her normal proportions and continues through the woods.
*She comes across a little house and shrinks herself down enough to get inside, The house belongs to the Duchess.
*The Duchess and the cook are arguing and seem unconcerned about the baby that there looking after, Alice decides
to take the baby with her, but the baby turns into a pig and trots off into the woods.
*The next character to bump into Alice was the Cheshire cat, The Cheshire cat helps her find her way through the woods, but he warns her that everyone she meets will be mad.
*Alice next goes to the March Hares house where is is giving a tea party- A Mad hatters tea party with the March Hare the Hatter and the Dormouse.
*Time stopped for the Mad Hatter and since then the time has always been six o'clock; it is therefore always teatime.

*After a very intense Tea party with some argumentative woodland creatures. Alice leaves through a tree with a door in it, when she goes a little further it is clear that the door is the original door she entered her adventure through.
*She walks on through to find herself in the Queen of Hearts garden. There are three gardeners dressed in playing cards and are painting the roses red (this is because if the queen realised they had planted white roses they would be beheaded) .
*The Queen then arrives, Alice helps to hide them in flowerpots as the Queen has ordered for them to be executed.
*The Queen invites Alice over to play croquet, Which is not an easy game because the mallets and balls are live animals.
*The game is interrupted when the Cheshire Cat turns up. The King of Hearts is not very happy about this at all.
*The Queen takes Alice to the Gryphon ,who then takes her to the Mock turtle. They both tell Alice strange stories about their school under the sea.
*The
Gryphon drags Alice off to see the trail of the Knave of Hearts.
*The Knave of Hearts has been accused of stealing the tarts of the Queen of Hearts. The evidence against him is looking bad and Alice is appalled by this and does not agree with the procedures at the same time she begins to grow larger again.
*She is called to the witness stand, by which time she has grown to her full size.
*Alice refuses to be intimidated by the bad logic of the court and the bluster of the King and Queen of Hearts. Suddenly, the cards all rise up and attack her.
*The cards all rise up and attack her, at which point Alice wakes up, her adventures in Wonderland have all been an amazing dream.
-THE END-