The document summarizes key elements of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland including: 1) Alice experiences absurd physical changes as a symbol of puberty that cause her discomfort and frustration as she struggles to maintain a comfortable size. 2) The story uses nonsense words, rhymes, and poems like "Jabberwocky" to reflect the sense of unlimited possibility in Wonderland. 3) Humpty Dumpty provides translations for the made-up words used in the "Jabberwocky" poem to explain their meanings.

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND LANGUAGE GAME
“Drink me”
“Eat me”
The Tragic and Inevitable Loss of
Childhood Innocence
Throughout the course of Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland, Alice goes through a variety of absurd
physical changes. The discomfort she feels at never being
the right size acts as a symbol for the changes that occur
during puberty. Alice finds these changes to be traumatic,
and feels discomfort, frustration, and sadness when she
goes through them. She struggles to maintain a
comfortable physical size
A-SYMBOLS
Anything is possible in Wonderland, and Carroll’s manipulation of language
reflects this sense of unlimited possibility.

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B- RHYMES
 The Queen of Hearts - nursery rhyme
quoted in 'Alice in Wonderland', Chapter XI
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C- JABBERWOCKY
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"The Queen of Hearts
she made some tarts all
on a summer's day;
The Knave of Hearts he
stole the tarts and took
them clean away.
The King of Hearts
called for the tarts and
beat the Knave full sore
The Knave of Hearts
brought back the tarts
and
vowed he'd steal no
more."
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Jabberwock character is a feared monster in Lewis
Carroll’s poem called the Jabberwocky.
This poem tells the story of a brave man who sets
out to slay the Jabberwock, and finally returns home
with his head.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
`Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that
catch!
Beware the Jujub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!'
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought
--
So rested he by the Tumtum gree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey
wook,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through
and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
`And has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Calloh! Callay!
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

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Humpty Dumpty's translation of words in Jabberwocky
Brillig: - to broil / 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the time when you start broiling things for dinner
Slithy: -blended from slimy and lithe / slimy and active
Tove: -like a badger or a lizard or a corkscrew. They nest under sun-dials and live on cheese.
Gyre: -to go round and round like a gyroscope
Gimble: -to make holes like a gimblet
Wabe: -a grass-plot round a sun-dial, because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it.
Mimsy: -blended from flimsy and miserable
Borogove: -a shabby looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, looks like a live mop.
Rath: -a sort of green pig
Mome: -short for “from home”, meaning that they’d lost their way.
Outgrabe: -past tense of Outgribe / something between to bellow and to whistle, with a kind of
sneeze in the middle