Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Alice's Shrinkage
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Feb 24, 2015 01:57PM
Alice continues to shrink and expand throughout the book. I believe this may be pleasing to a child; however, it may as well be harming to them as well. The shrinking and expanding can allow the child's imagination to wonder and be anything that she may desire. Alice mentions in the book that she had thought about being able to so some of the things that she is now doing. Hence,if a child continues to change, the child will forget her identity. This happens to Alice as she changes sizes during the book. She can never really answer the questions about who she is because she doesn't know.This is what make her concerned with her own identity.
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In reciting "How doth the Little Crocodile," the answers come out wrong.
The deer also forgets it's a deer, and gets scared of Alice once it remembers.
My interpretation is the child's world of make believe, like when Calvin pretends he is Godzilla attacking Neo-Tokyo, when he is actually a kid in a sandbox with some toy cars.
"Hence,if a child continues to change, the child will forget her identity."
If by that you are implying growing up, then yes one does lose the identity we had as children.
Plus the White King is dreaming us anyway, so we have whatever identity he dreams up for us, otherwise we would go out, bang! Like a candle.
The deer also forgets it's a deer, and gets scared of Alice once it remembers.
My interpretation is the child's world of make believe, like when Calvin pretends he is Godzilla attacking Neo-Tokyo, when he is actually a kid in a sandbox with some toy cars.
"Hence,if a child continues to change, the child will forget her identity."
If by that you are implying growing up, then yes one does lose the identity we had as children.
Plus the White King is dreaming us anyway, so we have whatever identity he dreams up for us, otherwise we would go out, bang! Like a candle.
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