In this next section of Alice in Wonderland, Alice and her cat start to wonder about Looking-Glass house and the secrets that hide in there. As she enters this mysterious house, she finds a lovely garden full of many talking flowers. She also finds many answers that don't make sense in reality, but make sense to Alice in her dreams. Such as the reason why flowers can talk here is that the soil is rough, keeping them awake, and outside, the soil is soft keeping them asleep. Further on, she stumbles upon a large chess board, and many of the pieces are moving about, especially the Kings and Queens. Later on, Alice notices that she has shrunken once again, and also that the woods, or wilderness, was the chess board where every area is a different block on the board, where she would meet different pieces of each team. She encountered Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and also Humpty Dumpty, which I had no idea was in this book. Moving onto more blocks as a pawn to become a queen, Alice encounters a field where there are many pieces from both sides fighting, even the White King and the Hatter. Although, this is where the section ends.
"I see nobody on the road." said Alice.
"I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much I can do to see real people, by this light!"
(Carroll, 194)
After reading this from the White King Chess piece, I started laughing very hard that i had to tell my brother, once he had heard it, we both started laughing because the King was literal when it came to seeing 'Nobody' as a person, even though Alice meant that she didn't see a single person on the road. Then I thought that she is dreaming again, like she did when she went to Wonderland.
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