English 021 Creative Reading

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The Pawn and the Power--United in Life's Struggle!
7 Carroll
by kparker

In “The Garden of Live Flowers,” Alice, feeling like an outsider, at first wonders “being a Pawn” (163) would be like in the “great huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world” (163). Soon, the Red Queen drags Carroll around the tree. Before she mentions wanting to...
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April 28, 2005, 02:23 PM
Naming Logic
7 Carroll
by kanders2

No passage in Through the Looking Glass plays with names quite to the extreme that the scene about insects does. In insect in the real world changes from a Horse-fly to a “Rocking-horse-fly… made entirely of wood, and gets about by swinging from branch to branch” (173). A horse fly’s...
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April 28, 2005, 02:01 PM
Literally a Hill, Hyperbolically a Valley
7 Carroll
by began

During Alice’s early encounter with the Red Queen, Alice takes a phrase of the queen to be literal when it is not the intention at all, and it provides an early rift in their relationship. Alice says, “I thought I’d try and find my way to the top of that...
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April 28, 2005, 01:59 PM
Alice is a Goose
7 Carroll
by bellwang

In “Wool and Water,” the Sheep frequently cries “Feather!” (202-3) as Alice incorrectly drags her oar into the water. Alice assumes the Sheep is bleating meaningless remarks and continues rowing. The Sheep continues, “Feather! Feather! You’ll be caching a crab directly.” Alice, oblivious that the Sheep is using rowing slang...
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April 28, 2005, 01:58 PM
The communication of the Red Queen's pun
7 Carroll
by pdecoste

“When you say ‘hill’ the Queen interrupted, “I could show you hills, in comparison with which you’d call a valley.” “No I shouldn’t,” said Alice, surprised into contradicting her at last: “a hill ca’n’t be a valley, you know. That would be nonsense—” The Red Queen shook her head, “You...
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April 28, 2005, 01:56 PM
The Queen of Specific
7 Carroll
by lcolon

In “Wool and Water,” Alice “address[es] the White Queen” (p. 194), which the Queen takes for “a-dressing” (194). This discrepancy leads her to think that Alice is referring to putting on her clothing, an action she has had difficulty with. Because Alice has hit a sore spot, the Queen proceeds...
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April 28, 2005, 01:41 PM
Mind the Volcano
7 Carroll
by kmcqueen

The dialogue between the White Queen and the White King offers an unusual pun that confuses the King in regards to the present situation. “Mind the Volcano!” (144) is the Queen’s warning to her husband to watch out for the hand that had just moved her around the room. However,...
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April 28, 2005, 01:00 PM
All the cool kids are doing it.
7 Carroll
by jsese

Early on in Through the Looking Glass, the Queen gives Alice some advice: “Speak in French when you ca’n’t think of the English for a thing—turn out your toes as you walk—and remember who you are!” (166) Her advice seems random, but its importance becomes more apparent by the time...
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April 28, 2005, 11:07 AM
Alice and The Voice of Corny Jokes
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by sstewar2

During the third chapter of “Through the Looking Glass,” Alice begins her search for the eighth square. On her way there, she runs into a group of animals in a carriage and a little voice tells corny jokes in her ear: “Indeed I sha’n’t!” Alice said rather impatiently. “I don’t...
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April 28, 2005, 04:34 AM
Don't take me seriously.
7 Carroll
by oradwan

A strangely literal incident in the first chapters of Through the Looking Glass occurs when Alice first encounters the Red Queen: “Alice … explained … she had lost her way. ‘I don’t know what you mean by your way…all the ways here belong to me’ [said the Queen]” (161). The...
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April 27, 2005, 09:08 PM
Swinging Meanings
7 Carroll
by acathcar

Although Alice dislikes insects, she is very pleased with herself for knowing the “names of some of them.” In response, the Gnat declares, “Of course they answer to their names.” This exchange between Alice and the Gnat leads to an association of double meaning with the word “name”. While Alice...
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April 26, 2005, 10:59 PM
Intellectual Puns
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by rmccally

At one point in the story, Alice finds herself wandering through a garden talking to flowers. During this visit, Alice asks the flowers how a tree in the middle of the garden could protect them: ‘“But what could it do, if any danger came?” Alice asked. “It could bark,” said...
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April 26, 2005, 10:22 PM
A Plant's Pun
7 Carroll
by aahearn

When Alice questions why the flowers she meets in the Looking Glass garden are able to talk, the Tiger-lily replies, “In most gardens, they make the beds too soft – so that the flowers are always asleep” (159). This clever pun on the term “flowerbed" contributes to the anthropomorphic characterization...
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April 26, 2005, 08:52 PM
Eigth blog assignment
7 Carroll
by mphillip

Post before class on Thursday, April 28 Zero in on a passage in Through the Looking Glass in which someone uses a name or a phrase in a strangely literal way. In what way does this use lead to bad communication? How responsible is Alice for misunderstanding? - or, contrariwise...
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April 26, 2005, 02:20 PM