Alice Collage Response

This collage is my response to the book Alice in Wonderland. I put the red roses in the top right corner of my collage to show how they were an essential part of that scene in the story. The three trees are symbolic of the three gardeners because they were trying to paint the white roses red before the queen of hearts noticed because they did not want to be “off with their heads”. In addition, the playing card and the queen show my interpretation (how I imagined) the queen made her entrance.
- monika a

The End Of Solitude Response

In the article the "The End of Solitude" the author portrays the fact that people feel the need to be recognized and connected with others. Therefore we live in a society were social networks dominate our lives and increase as people’s desire to be noticed also increase.

- monika a

"The End of Solitude" Response-Hillary Dietzel

In "The End of Solitude," Deresiewicz emphasizes the importance of solitude in one's success. He stresses how solitude leads to deep introspection, and is the ony way to truly form your own ideas and personality. "But no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific or moral, can arise without solitude." It is true that solitude is important, but one cannot truly experience the values and joys of life without creating personal relationships and connections. For instance, when I think about important or amazing times in my life, there has always been someone there with me, or someone who has shared the same life changing day. To me, life is not only about accomplishments that can only be made through solitude, but moments, and the ones we share with our friends and family. Greatness can be achieved through solitude, but one cannot feel truly fulfilled without shared human experiences.

Short Story for Literary Periods - Allaura Levi

Once upon a time there was a girl named Elizabeth, she liked romance and was very dramatic. It was almost like a paradox. For john reason and logic were not supernatural, unlike shelly who went to church all of the time. Jane was like Elizabeth and used her imagination a lot and was mellodramatic like Charles. Leiws and Victoria were very conservitive. However, Henry was a tree huger and liked nature. Oscar like wild art, while J.S. also enjoyed the beauty of nature like Henry. William was skeptical of Langston's revolution and T.S's war. James and WOlf were just rebellious and didn't care about anything. Beckett was a crazy nonsensical hermit where as magic was a thoughtful thing. Morrison was also a chaotic person who was in a psycward where he listened to jazz. This story is def. not traditional.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - George Han

Alice in Wonderland is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. The whole story is one big fantasy filled with talking animals, talking deck of cards, and most importantly, underlying morals and themes.

It is revealed at the end that the whole story occurred in Alice's dream, explaining the nonsensical and deviating events in the story. The narrative is Alice's subconscious at work, interpreting real world observations and experiences in its own way and form through various disparate episodes.

Our subconscious also does the same for us, the audience, in the form of dreams. Our dreams often takes place as a way for us to explore our thoughts, observations, and experiences. The scenarios that takes place in our dreams may help us come to understand whats troubling us or may come off as a nonsensical folly like the literary classic, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Reading Response to "Alice" - Kelli Horvath

*Alice experiences the loss of childhood innocence*
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This idea is expressed in the very first chapters when Alice falls down the rabbit hole, she sees things on shelves and objects flying all around her; she grabs at them as any normal seven year old would do. However, she is initially introduced to the idea of growing up (even though she may have not known it) when she drinks the drink and becomes extremely large, she feels that once a child grows up, the opportunities only a child experiences are gone. The reality of the situation can also be described as Alice losing her sense of childhood purity or innocence, because not only her size grows, but her thought process changes as she experiences all of her own bodily changes; she never fits in with her size, (small or large). An example of this is when she is told by the white rabbit to go to his house and she again becomes a giant and no longer fits in what then appeared to be a dollhouse, this carries over to her sense of being a child transforming into a grown up. The fact that she continues to eat and drink things that make her body change are an exapmle of an archetype, or signal to the reader that there is a deeper meaning; it also signals to the audience that Alice is still a child in that she is very naive to the process of losing childhood innocence. However, this changes with the initiation of growing older.