PaperTopic

I am going to do my paper over Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and how the story represents Alices struggle of growing up. It represents her letting go of her childhood and accepting her new role as a young lady. In the book this is shown by her constant random size changing, her inability to understand or fit in with the world around her, and her final resolution in the end where she calls out everything for what they really are, showing she has matured through course of the story.
It is evident that Alice is struggling with something through the course of the novel and Carroll never comes oout and says what it is. I believe that in the real world she has hit the point where she is becoming a young adult, and that of course is not easy for any kid. Kids have a completely different view on the world and they cannot understand why adult are they way they are, just as adults sometimes do not understand why kids are the way they are. This struggle is such a significant one that it carries over to her dreams and it is there that she tries and sorts it out, all while the reader's watch.
I still don't know if I will do this topic for sure. If i can think of something better I will probably do that.

'Alchemist' Noticeables

So far I have noticed to main things in the story. The one that stands out the most is the focus on 'personal legends' and 'omens.' It seems that ever since the King of Salem brought it up just about every chapter mentions something about one or the other. It makes sense as the plot of the story is this boy realizing his personal legend but it still seems overly stated.
The other main thing I have noticed is how the author seems to put alot of life lessons in his text. Every situation ends with a quote about life. Like when he is talking about his sheep and says that maybe there is a language that does not require words. Or the part about the world's greatest lie. It comes off like the author is trying really hard to get his views on life across to the reader; he is not very subtle about it. It is not bad, it just seems kind of cheesy.

The Hatter and the Hare

In Tim Burton's "Alice In Wonderland," the Mad Hatter and the March Hare were depicted somewhat differently than they were in Lewis Carroll's version. Of course they were still just as crazy and contradicting as they were in the book, but there were a few things that did not match up or were not completely expressed in the book. The main thing I noticed was that the Hatter seemed much more dark in the movie, almost depressed and even scary. In the book it seemed he was a very happy enthusiastic character. The March Hare also differed between the versions a bit. In the book he was definately insane as his sentence were very contradictory, but in the movie it almost seemed like he was tripping on acid or something of that sort. He really did not say much and when he did they were very random and abstract things like "cup!" As for the Cat, I thought he was portrayed fairly similar in both versions. The only thing I noticed was that in Burton's version he kind of floated around like a ghost and I really did not get that from the book. He just kind of disappeared. But yeah, the tea party and its participants definately were not as light-hearted and chaotic as they were portrayed as in the book.

The Era of Queen Victoria

Lasting from 1837 to 1901, the Victorian era was that of Queen Victoria's reign over England. During this time, the population nearly doubled due to the advances in industry during the Industrial Revolution. This rapid growth of people caused much poverty, overcrowding and hard times for a major portion of the people of England. Because of this, child labor became widely popular as families struggled to get by. During this time there were also some important advances in communication. Railroads were put into placed and used more often for the transportation of goods. "Railway time" was also adopted all over Britain which helped in uniting the country. It is also said that during the era that science became what we know it as today, with such books as The Origin of Species by Darwin being published.
~SOURCE: Wikipedia~

Favorite Book

I would have to say that out of all the book I have read, my favorite was probably The Road by Cormac McCarthy which I read last year for AP Literature. There were many things I liked about it. First of all, I really like books and movie dealing with post-disaster/ apocalypse scenarios. I also liked the style in which it was written. McCarthy did not use correct sentence structure but rather simple fragments to tell the story. The imagery in this books was also well used. He was able to bring the foreign and alien setting to life for the reader. Good book