The first
impression I had of the book Alice in Wonderland was that I thought it was more
a book for children, not for adolescence. I like the book, now that I have
finished it, but I find the book a bit boring. I actually thought, since Alice
in Wonderland also has film versions, that the story would be fast-paced and
that it had a real message. I never saw any of the movies made based on the
book Alice in wonderland. After reading the book I wanted to see the movie, but
it seemed boring to me as well. In my opinion the book didn’t have a real
message.
During class I realized that my classmates had a totally different opinion. Some classmates actually liked the book and thought it had a very clear message of growing up and the journey of being a girl to being an adolescence to being an adult. Some also thought it was a bit boring, but it hasn’t got much pages so it didn’t really matter. Some classmates came up with a theory during class I didn’t understand. It was a theory that states that a lot of the encounters Alice has in the book, are actually sexual metaphors. So when the white Rabbit jumped in his rabbit hole, it should have a sexual meaning. I couldn’t identify with this theory.
The book is suitable for HAVO and VWO 1 classes I think, because it’s writing style is pretty easy to read and the story isn’t hard to understand for beginners. I think this book would be suitable for an age group of 10 to 12 years old, as we speak of the age group of the Netherlands.
I couldn’t really identify with any of the characters of the book, because I don’t see any similarities. The only one I can actually understand is the White Rabbit. At the point that Alice is inside his house, and she grows after drinking a potion she found in white rabbits room he acts pretty normal. Like a stranger is inside his house. It is a very funny scene in the book according to me, because something actually happens here. I think Alice in Wonderland is a bit boring because not really thrilling things happen, so when something happens you keep that in mind. That’s a good thing. I remember myself thinking oh no not another growing bigger and smaller part, when Alice is with a frog on a Mushroom. That was probably the thing that annoyed me the most, Alice growing bigger and smaller in every happening. However after discussing the book in class I must say I liked it a bit more, because I could talk about the weird things that happen. I think children really like this book, as I said, aged 10 to 12. I wouldn’t recommend it to my students because it’s too easy and too boring for a teenager to read, at least that’s what I think. If I would teach at a primary school I think I would use it.
During class I realized that my classmates had a totally different opinion. Some classmates actually liked the book and thought it had a very clear message of growing up and the journey of being a girl to being an adolescence to being an adult. Some also thought it was a bit boring, but it hasn’t got much pages so it didn’t really matter. Some classmates came up with a theory during class I didn’t understand. It was a theory that states that a lot of the encounters Alice has in the book, are actually sexual metaphors. So when the white Rabbit jumped in his rabbit hole, it should have a sexual meaning. I couldn’t identify with this theory.
The book is suitable for HAVO and VWO 1 classes I think, because it’s writing style is pretty easy to read and the story isn’t hard to understand for beginners. I think this book would be suitable for an age group of 10 to 12 years old, as we speak of the age group of the Netherlands.
I couldn’t really identify with any of the characters of the book, because I don’t see any similarities. The only one I can actually understand is the White Rabbit. At the point that Alice is inside his house, and she grows after drinking a potion she found in white rabbits room he acts pretty normal. Like a stranger is inside his house. It is a very funny scene in the book according to me, because something actually happens here. I think Alice in Wonderland is a bit boring because not really thrilling things happen, so when something happens you keep that in mind. That’s a good thing. I remember myself thinking oh no not another growing bigger and smaller part, when Alice is with a frog on a Mushroom. That was probably the thing that annoyed me the most, Alice growing bigger and smaller in every happening. However after discussing the book in class I must say I liked it a bit more, because I could talk about the weird things that happen. I think children really like this book, as I said, aged 10 to 12. I wouldn’t recommend it to my students because it’s too easy and too boring for a teenager to read, at least that’s what I think. If I would teach at a primary school I think I would use it.
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