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Carroll’s writing style plays a huge part in why his book
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is still enjoyed by those of all ages today. He uses language to create Alice’s world of nonsense. One might even look at his writing style as yet another character in the story. There are many examples of how his writing style actually takes on a roll as a key part of the story. One example is that “much of the nonsense effect is . . . achieved by directing conversation to parts of speech rather than to the meaning of the speakers — to definitions rather than to indications. When Alice asks the Cheshire-Cat which way to go, he replies that she should, first, know where she's going” (CliffsNotes).
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Another example of how his writing style takes on the roll of a character can be seen in chapter three of Carroll’s book when the Mouse was telling a story and Carroll had the words move down the page in the shape of a squiggly mouse tail. One might say that “the nature of nonsense is much like chance, and rules to decipher it into logical meaning or sense patterns work against the principal intent of Carroll's purpose — that is, he wanted his nonsense to be random, senseless, unpredictable, and without rules” (CliffsNotes). I don’t know that I completely agree with the first part of this statement. I think that Carroll did a great job at conveying his purpose through his writing style and use of language when creating this widely loved children’s book.
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