Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Reading Diary A: Through the Looking-Glass




Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter
This portion of the “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There” starts off where Alice is beginning to investigate the mirror. When Alice begins to go through the mirror, I feel like she might be on some sort of medication. Being able to see chess pieces move by themselves and being self-aware would be a scary thing for me to witness. I don’t know how Alice didn’t freak out after seeing them unless it was all in her head.

Tweedledum and Tweedledee from Telltale Games: The Wolf Among Us
Alice approaches two fat men who are standing very still. Once again, I don’t know why Alice would consider going up and looking at the two. After a weird introduction and greeting by the twins, they begin dancing around about four times. This part is funny because Tweedledum and Tweedledee are fat and cannot dance any more. The twins are still a bit confusing and don’t even bother answering Alice’s question and instead they decide to tell her a poem.

The Walrus and the Carpenter is the longest poem that the twins decide to tell Alice. The two characters are walking across a seashore and ask an odd question about how long it would take maids to clear the beach. Then the Walrus asks some oysters to come and walk with them. After a decent walk, all the oysters are out of breath. The young oysters fell for the Walrus and the Carpenter’s trick and were all eaten by the two. It was weird how the oysters had feet and followed them to be eaten. The old oyster was wise enough to not follow the two and stay in the oyster-bed. In the end of the poem, the Walrus is sad that they tricked the oysters but reveals that he ate most of them.

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