"Why is a raven like a writing desk?" - The Mad Hatter

Photo taken at Safe Halloween at Weatherford College 2010

      Since I have never actually read Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland, I am basing my knowledge of this story on the movie Alice in Wonderland that Walt Disney released in 1951.  I am now very excited to read the book and be able to compare the two.  This has been one of my favorite movies ever since I was little.  I think the quirkiness and the overall randomness in Alice in Wonderland is what has always drawn me to it.  Alice in Wonderland is so zany and fun that I can't help falling in love with the characters and the upside-down world Alice finds herself in.  I can’t wait to see how Lewis Carroll’s original characters compare to the ones depicted in the movie.  

     Much like the title I chose for this post, there are many aspects of Alice’s world left up to the individual to decipher or interpret, as there might not be a correct answer to some of the riddles or questions posed by Alice and her new found friends.  Nonsense is a key ingredient in keeping this light-hearted story in the hearts and minds of children and adults today. As a child, I often found myself wanting to go to a place of my own in which I could be creative and have only my imagination or a good book to keep me company.  Alice’s world would have been the perfect place. 

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"

— Alice