Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland



Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland

 Alice! A childish story take,
And with a gentle hand
Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
In Memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
Pluck'd in a far-off land.
                         
                                           Lewis Carrol

Hi, everybody ! I hope you are fine.

I'll tell you something about one of the loveliest girl, Alice, and one of the most amazing children's books: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland.

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland was written in 1865 (first English version) by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, well knonw as his pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

In this story, we met a little girl who travel through a rabbirt's burrow.
Once there, she lives weird and confusing situations since the first moment: she's swimming into her own tears, she speaks with different animals, she participates in a race where everybody won (except her), and many other uncommon experiences.

During the reading, you'll travel into a British society that is reflected in every character and Alice will know many of them. Some of them are: The White Rabbit, a mouse, the March's Hare, the hatter, the Duchess, a blue Caterpillar, etc.
There's a moment when she meets the most iconic characters in all the kingdom: The Queen of Hearts, who in Carrol's words ''had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she said, without even looking round.'', and loves playing croquet.

You can find some of the classical rhimes, such as: "You Are Old, Father William", "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat", "The Lobster Quadrille", and many more parodies.

I recommend personally this book because it has many word's games, bizarre situations, jokes, and you can learn a bit more about grammar tricks that you haven't find out in literature.

Finally, click in the video based on this book. 
The perfomance is by Vocaloid and her friends representing a kind of staging about Alice's adventures and how she meets the other characters.
They sing in Japanese but you can read the subtitles in English/Japanese likewise.
I hope you like it.

See you next !









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