爱丽丝梦游仙境AlicesAdventuresinWonderland

爱丽丝梦游仙境 AlicesAdventuresinWonderland Chapter 1-Down the Rabbit Hole Alice is bored sitting on the riverbank with her sister,when she sees a talking,clothed White Rabbit with a watch run past.She follows it down a rabbit hole to a curious hall with many locked doors of all sizes.She finds a small key to a door too small for her to fit,but through which she sees an attractive garden.She then discovers a bottle labelled DRINK ME,the contents of which cause her to shrink too small to reach the key.A cake with EAT ME on it causes her to grow to such a tremendous size her head hits the ceiling.Chapter 2-The Pool of Tears:Alice is unhappy and cries and her tears flood the hallway.After shrinking down again due to a fan she had picked up,Alice swims through her own tears and meets a Mouse,who is swimming as well.She tries to make small talk with him but all she can think of talking about is her cat,which offends the mouse.Chapter 3-The Caucus Race and a Long Tale The sea of tears becomes crowded with other animals and birds that have been swept away.Alice and the other animals convene on the bank and the question among them is how to get dry again.The mouse gives them a very dry lecture on William the Conqueror.A Dodo decides that the best thing to dry them off would be a Caucus-Race which consists of everyone running in a circle with no clear winner.Alice eventually frightens all the animals away,unwittingly,by talking about her cat.Chapter 4-The Rabbit Sends a Little Bill The White Rabbit appears again in search of the Duchesss gloves and fan.He orders Alice to go into the house and retrieve them,but once she gets inside she starts growing.The horrified Rabbit orders his gardener,Bill the Lizard,to climb on the roof and go down the chimney.Outside,Alice hears the voices of animals that have gathered to gawk at her giant arm.The crowd hurls pebbles at her,which turn into little cakes which when Alice eats them reduce her once again in size.Chapter 5-Advice from a Caterpillar Alice comes upon a mushroom and sitting on it is a Caterpillar smoking a hookah.The Caterpillar questions Alice and she admits to her current identity crisis,compounded by her inability to remember a poem.Before crawling away,the caterpillar tells Alice that one side of the mushroom will make her taller and the other side will make her shorter.She breaks off two pieces from the mushroom.One side makes her shrink smaller than ever,while another causes her neck to grow high into the trees,where a pigeon mistakes her for a serpent.With some effort,Alice brings herself back to her usual height.She stumbles upon a small estate and uses the mushroom to reach a more appropriate height.Chapter 6-Pig and Pepper A Fish-Footman has an invitation for the Duchess of the house,which he delivers to a Frog-Footman.Alice observes this transaction and,after a perplexing conversation with the frog,lets herself into the house.The Duchesss Cook is throwing dishes and making a soup which has too much pepper,which causes Alice,the Duchess and her baby(but not the cook or her grinning Cheshire Cat)to sneeze violently.Alice is given the baby by the Duchess and to her surprise,the baby turns into a pig.Chapter 7-A Mad Tea Party The Cheshire Cat appears in a tree,directing her to the March Hares house.He disappears but his grin remains behind to float on its own in the air prompting Alice to remark that she has often seen a cat without a grin but never a grin without a cat.Alice becomes a guest at a mad tea party along with the Hatter(now more commonly known as the Mad Hatter),the March Hare,and a sleeping Dormouse who remains asleep for most of the chapter.The other characters give Alice many riddles and stories.The Mad Hatter reveals that they have tea all day because time has punished him by eternally standing still at 6 pm(tea time).Alice becomes insulted and tired of being bombarded with riddles and she leaves claiming that it was the stupidest tea party that she had ever been to.Chapter 8-The Queens Croquet Ground:Alice leaves the tea party and enters the garden where she comes upon three living playing cards painting the white roses on a rose tree red because the Queen of Hearts hates white roses.A procession of more cards,kings and queens and even the White Rabbit enters the garden.Alice then meets the King and Queen.The Queen,a figure difficult to please,introduces her trademark phrase Off with his head!which she utters at the slightest dissatisfaction with a subject.Alice is invited(or some might say ordered)to play a game of croquet with the Queen and the rest of her subjects but the game quickly descends into chaos.Live flamingos are used as mallets and hedgehogs as balls and Alice once again meets the Cheshire Cat.The Queen of Hearts then orders the Cat to be beheaded,only to have her executioner complain that this is impossible since the head is all that can be seen of him.Because the cat belongs to the Duchess,the Queen is prompted to release the Duchess from prison to resolve the matter.Chapter 9-The Mock Turtles Story The Duchess is brought to the croquet ground at Alices request.She ruminates on finding morals in everything around her.The Queen of Hearts dismisses her on the threat of execution and introduces Alice to the Gryphon,who takes her to the Mock Turtle.The Mock Turtle is very sad,even though he has no sorrow.He tries to tell his story about how he used to be a real turtle in school,which The Gryphon interrupts so they can play a game.Chapter 10-Lobster Quadrille The Mock Turtle and the Gryphon dance to the Lobster Quadrille,while Alice recites(rather incorrectly)Tis the V oice of the Lobster.The Mock Turtle sings them Beautiful Soup during which the Gryphon drags Alice away for an impending trial.Chapter 11-Who Stole the Tarts?:Alice attends a trial whereby the Knave of Hearts is accused of stealing the Queens tarts.The jury is composed of various animals,including Bill the Lizard,the White Rabbit is the courts trumpeter,and the judge is the King of Hearts.During the proceedings,Alice finds that she is steadily growing larger.The dormouse scolds Alice and tells her she has no right to grow at such a rapid pace and take up all the air.Alice scoffs and calls the dormouses accusation ridiculous because everyone grows and she cant help it.Meanwhile witnesses at the trial include the Mad Hatter,who displeases and frustrates the King through his indirect answers to the questioning,and the Duchesss cook.Chapter 12-Alices Evidence Alice is then called up as a witness.She accidentally knocks over the jury box with the animals inside them and the King orders the animals be placed back into their seats before the trial continues.The King and Queen order Alice to be gone,citing Rule 42(All persons more than a mile high to leave the court),but Alice disputes their judgement and refuses to leave.She argues with the King and Queen of Hearts over the ridiculous proceedings,eventually refusing to hold her tongue.The Queen shouts her familiar Off with her head!but Alice is unafraid,calling them out as just a pack of cards.Alices sister wakes her up for tea,brushing what turns out to be some leaves and not a shower of playing cards from Alices face.Alice leaves her sister on the bank to imagine all the curious happenings for herself.