Week 12 Storytelling: Alice Wanting To Go Back to Wonderland

Storytelling: Alice in Wonderland

A couple nights ago, the craziest thing happened to me.  I woke up in a frantic sweat from a dream I had about falling down a very deep well and my adventures with a weird rabbit that worried about time too much, a mad hatter who a big giant hat, and so many more crazy people that I have never seen before in my life.

I would have thought it was all just a crazy dream from eating pizza too close to bedtime, but when I woke up with a little bottle from my dream in my pocket, I started to wonder. 

“Could this have been real?” I thought to myself as I looked at the bottle and the little bit of icing on my face from the cake I ate in my dream, too.  This was all way too much of a coincidence to have only been a dream.

I woke up, looked at my clock, and realized I was very late for school.

“I’m late, I’m so late!” I kept saying over and over to myself.  I paused for a second and knew that I had heard that before.  A light bulb turned on inside my head and flashbacks from the white-haired, red-eyed rabbit from my dream raced through my head. 

“It’s all just a dream, it’s all just a dream,” I had to keep reminding myself throughout the day.  I tried to tell my friends about it, but they all just laughed in my face and teased me about it.

“You’re crazy, Alice!” Mariah yelled to my face during my first class.

When I tried telling Becca, she said I should be put in a crazy house because something like that could never happen.  I thought for sure they might believe me at least a little bit.  At that point in the day I knew I was right about all the events that happened that night.  Too many signs reflected what happened that night that it had to have happened. 

Every night since then I have tried to look down the same special well and do everything the same as the night I fell down that deep well and found myself surrounded by bookcases, lamps, and cup-boards.  I didn’t understand why it wouldn’t happen again.  Nothing seemed to make sense anymore.  Nothing lined up to what happened that night. 

It wasn’t until this morning as I was getting on my bike to ride to school that I found something shiny on the ground.  I picked up the object and I knew I had seen this before.  It was a watch, but not a normal watch.  It said the day of the month instead of the time. 

“It’s the rabbit’s watch!” I yelled out so loud that people a mile away could hear me.  This was just what I needed to get back to the Wonderland that I was in before.  It seemed crazy but I wanted to go back.  I needed a land away form earth for a while.  As I picked up the watch, I turned it around and it read, “You’re late, you’re late! Please come back at this date!”

I turned the watch around again and November 15^th was circled in what looked like the strangely colored butter from the tea party I attended.  Why, November 15^th is only a few days away! I couldn’t wait to go back and see what other shenanigans I could get myself into and other weird and crazy friends that I could meet.

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 Bibliography:  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.  Alice in Wonderland Unit.

Author’s Note:

This story originated from the famous story of Alice in Wonderland that many people are fairly familiar with.  After reading the stories in the unit, I thought to myself about how her friends probably felt when she told all of them about her experience.  I decided to write a story about the situations she probably got herself into after the dream and the aftermath of the experience.  It was important to me while I was writing this story that I added many clues to portray that the story was real.  I was already familiar with the story, so I combined all of it and took my favorite parts out of the story to write about in my post.  I added the part about her finding the watch that belonged to the rabbit with the date on it to venture into the idea of possibly writing a second story to follow this one about her adventures back into Wonderland.  Maybe next time, she can bring someone else with her so they don’t all look at her crazy.

 

Week 12 Reading Diary B: Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland Part 2

A Mad Tea-Party Part 1:

·      Table under a tree

·      The hare and the hatter were there

·      A dormouse was there asleep

·      They acted like they didn’t have enough room at the table because they were al crowded in the corner

·      Sat at a large chair at the end

·      Hare offered wine but there wasn’t any wine

·      Alice didn’t quite get along with them at first

·      Hare offered wine but when alice said there was none, he said it was rude that she sat down at his table

·      Hatter told her she needed to cut her hair

·      So alice began to be asked riddles

·      “I see what I eat” is the same as “I eat what I see”

·      “I like what I get” is the same as “I get what I like”

·      “I breathe when I sleep” is the same as “ I sleep when I breathe”

·      his clock says what day it is but not what time it is

A Mad Tea-Party (cont.):

·      hatter kept making riddles and rhymes

·      everything was about time

·      started singings songs to drift off into sleep

·      Queen jumped up and yelled about the hatter murdering time

·      She wanted his head cut off!

·      It’s always tea time and they have no time in between to wash up

·      They wanted Alice to tell them a story but she didn’t have it

·      Alice asked lots of questions to them

·      Wanted to know why they lived at the bottom of the well

·      Needed more tea

A Mad Tea-Party (end)

·      Got some tea and read and asked again

·      They said it was a treacle-well

·      Dormouse started to draw

·      Dormouse drew a treacle

·      They were all confused about being inside the well and drawing it

·      Drew everything that started with an M

·      Alice got very mad and disgusted

·      Dormouse fell asleep very fast

·      Trying to put him in the tea pot

·      Found herself back in a long hall

·      Nibbled at a mushroom

·      Then found herself in the garden

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Week 12 Reading Diary A: Alice in Wonderland

Alice In Wonderland: Down the Rabbit Hole

·      Alice with her sister on the bank

·      Sister reads a book with no pictures

·      Wanted to make a daisy chain

·      White rabbit with pink eyes ran by

·      Rabbit was running late and talked and she didn’t think anything of it

·      Rabbit took out his waistcoat pocket watch and hurried down a large rabbit-hole

·      Alice went after the rabbit

·      Fell down a very steep well

·      As she fell, surrounded by cupboards and book-shelves

·      She fell for a long time and wondered how many miles she had fallen

·      She was very smart and learned a lot in school

·      Thinking about how she was going to ask about where she was

·      Still falling

Down the Rabbit Hole (cont.)

·      Fell off into a doze as she continued falling

·      Fell into a heap of sticks and dry leaves

·      Saw the white rabbit still hurrying down the path

·      She was in a long, low, hall

·      Lots of doors but all of them were locked

·      Scared because she didn’t know how she was going to get back

·      Saw a golden key on a three-legged table

·      Key was too small and wouldn’t open them

·      Found a door 15 inches high and it worked!

·      It lead to a beautiful garden but she was too big to fit

·      Began to think that very few things were really impossible

·      Couldn’t fit so back to the table to look for another key

·      Found a bottle that said “drink me”

·      Checked it out to make sure it wasn’t poisonous

·      Smart and remembered to check because she didn’t want anything bad to happen to her by simply not reading the instructions

·      Tasted nice like tart cherries, pineapples, turkey, like thanksgiving dinner

Down the Rabbit Hole (end)

·      She shrunk down to 10 inches high

·      Enters in the garden

·      She forgot the key but by this point, she was too small to reach it

·      Couldn’t climb up the legs because it’s too slippery

·      She gave her self the advise to stop crying and grow up

·      Found a cake in a little glass box that said “eat me”

·      She was hoping it would make her grow bigger again

·      The cake didn’t make her change so she finished it off

  

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