Week 12 Reading Diary: Looking Glass

This week I am retelling stories from Through the Looking-Glass.

In My Own Invention Alice has been captured by the White Knight. They then run in to the Red Knight and he wants Alice. So they decide to fight for her. She gets very nervous during the battle and hides behind a tree.  They both fall off their horses so the Red Knight decides to give up.

In My Own Invention (cont.) the knight and Alice are venturing on and on along the path. He presents her with his box that is to hold his clothes and lunch, Alice points out that it is upside down though and that all of it’s contents have fallen out. Later on she notices that he seems to fall off the horse a lot and he becomes offended by that statement.

In My Own Invention (cont. again) Alice and the White Knight are still going along on their adventure along the path and Alice wants to know some of the things the knight has invented. He tells her he will give her the secret to getting over a fence in a new way when he thinks of it. He also explains various helmets he has invented.

In My Own Invention (end) the knight and Alice were still traveling along but the knight was getting sad and low-spirited. He expressed to Alice that it was officially time for them to part ways. He left her and she watched him ride off, falling on each side of the horse. She crossed the eighth square and tumbled down a hill. She came across a golden crown that fit perfectly on her head.

In Queen Alice, Alice is enjoying her newfound glory of being a queen and her marvelous crown. She happens to stumble upon the White Queen and the Red Queen who are playing a game. She asks them about the game and it frustrates them so they lash out at her.

In Queen Alice (cont.) Alice and the Red Queen and White Queen are having debates over many things. Alice asks them both if they can do sums, they say they can do sums but cannot do subtraction under any kind of circumstance. Alice is the main speaker in this story.

In Queen Alice (cont. again) Alice is approaching a door that has ‘Queen Alice’ written on top of it, with two bells. She knocks and is denied entry. Then a frog with giant boots comes over and advises her to stop knocking. Then the doors fly open and Alice is welcomed in, she is then at a feast and everyone is cheering for her as the new Queen!

In Queen Alice (end) Alice is forced to sit in-between the Red Queen and the White Queen at a dinner. She feels especially uncomfortable having to be in-between them. The Red Queen is shouting out orders the whole time and Alice feels that it is unfair for her to be the only one ordering.

In Shaking and Waking Alice is still at the dinner and things are beginning to become very tense. She yells out at the Red Queen that she is going to shake her in to a kitten. She grabs her and shakes her until she becomes a kitten.