Through the Looking
Glass
Alice was alone in the sitting-
room playing with the two kittens who were being naughty about the soft balls of wool they had found very intriguing. The sofa was very comfortable and the conversation Alice was
having with the kittens was beginning to fade away as they stopped purring and fell asleep. Alice could almost hear snow against the window panes and
wanted to see if they could be at least seen through the Looking Glass Room widows.
When she climbed up the mantelpiece , it appeared the glass began to melt and things in the room she had always wanted to get to were very much the same they looked in her room, but there were also some substantial differences . She found talking chess pieces walking about in twos and a book with a poem written in a strange way with the
words which gave its reader only an impression of having a meaning.
In the garden with talking flowers, she came across the Red Queen who promised Alice she would become a Queen ,too, as the world around them was just a huge chessboard with the ground arranged into squares divided by little
brooks. Thus Alice became the White Queen’s Pawn and had to cover eight squares to become a Queen. She also realized that there are some rules to
follow in the new world she was in, such as that you have to run until you are out of breath to stay in the same place, or that if you wanted to get somewhere, you should take the opposite direction. She had to accept the fact that time and situations change in the blink of an eye and it is possible to think in chorus.
On her way she meets the creatures from nursery rhymes and even her own dinner. She travels by a train which jumps over brooks, and in a boat with the old Sheep knitting a sweater. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the two angry brothers fight and when they have finished they tell Alice a rhymed story about the Walrus and the Carpenter who had eaten all their oysters friends with tears in their eyes. Humpty Dumpty taught Alice to play tricks with words and put them in one box to form a new meaning. The Lion and the Unicorn fought for the crown and having lost the battle they got drummed out of time. The gentle White Knight managed to bring Alice safe and sound to the last square even though he kept on falling off his horse every now and then.
In the last square Alice found herself in front of an arched doorway with the words: Queen Alice written on it. There was a Frog servant who brought her into a large room with fifty guests in it. There was a long table with many delicious dishes on it but it was impossible to taste any of them, as all of them were alive and bowed in front of Alice. Finally, not only the dishes were moving around but also the cutlery , plates and bowls. Alice thought it was all the Red Queen’s fault and started to shake her in order to punish her but the Queen became the black kitten. Since that very afternoon for many years to follow, Alice was asking herself the same question: who dreamt it all – she or the kitten.