Review Of The Maturation Of Alice Adventures

Natalie McAllister Ms. Listro English IV Level 1- MOD G 15 April 2016 The Maturation in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Herman Heese once said, â€Å"I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us† (Goodreads). Hermann Hesse was a German, who wrote about mind and body, spirit and nature, and spiritual search within oneself. Hesse explains that through one’s life, an individual will learn through their experience. In order to for a person to become mature and transform from childhood to adulthood, that individual has to understand that through suffering, disappointments, and melancholy they learn to accept who they are and will transform from their personal experience. Throughout the novel, Carroll emphasizes the maturation and the growth within an individual externally and internally, with the protagonist Alice. Alice’s adventure begins when she follows the White Rabbit down into his rabbit hole. Alic e quickly learns that the rules and the people in Wonderland are different and unique. The audience witnesses Alice grow and develop as she encounters many different types of characters and confusing situations. As Alice goes through changes, external and internal, she discovers who she is and reacts to situations differently. In his novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll exposes the nature of maturing and adapting through Alice’s encountersShow MoreRelatedGo Ask Alice2576 Words   |  11 PagesCompulsive Behaviors Memoir Report and Review Psychology Introduction Go Ask Alice is a 1971 book about the life of a troubled teenage girl. The book continues its claim to be the actual diary of an anonymous teenage girl who became addicted to drugs. Beatrice Sparks is listed as the author of the book by the U.S. Copyright Office. The novel, whose title was taken from a line in the Grace Slick, penned Jefferson Airplane song White Rabbit, go ask Alice/when shes ten feet tall, is presentedRead MoreThe Oldest Jest by Jennifer Johnston1010 Words   |  4 Pagesthat Keane is contradicting herself in trying to keep her writing identity a secret. A thought that comes to mind is that it is quite possible Keane did not want to be in competition with her mother who was quite a â€Å"poetess and writer of literary reviews for Blackwoods magazine [and it was] considered an honor to write for Blackwoods and they published almost anything [her] mother chose to write† (Quinn 66). The hiding behind the pseudonym of M.J. Farrell was more for Keane to keep an onymous and stated