Reading Notes: Alice in Wonderland: Part A

(Rabbit Hole by Richard Webb

Characters: Alice, Sister, Rabbit

Alice: Young girl, very curious, her mind wanders a lot, should really be more cautious, but does not seem to care much.

Sister: very very inattentive. needs to pay more attention to where her sister has been.

Rabbit: not a punctual person. should work on time-management.

Plot: Alice is sitting outside her house with her sister. The sister is busy reading a book that looks really boring to Alice because it has no pictures or conversations. She is thinking about making a flower crown but sees a rabbit. This rabbit is very flustered because he is late for something and checks the time on his pocket watch that he got from his waistcoat. Alice thinks this is weird so she tries to tail the rabbit. this leads her to the rabbit hole and she just jumps in. She then starts to fall. She falls for a very long time. There are cupboards all around her and she doesn't know what's happening. Eventually, when she's about to fall asleep, she lands in a hay bale very stunned, but not injured. she sees the rabbit hopping away. She follows and sees that there's a table. The table has a key and she finds a small door for it. She looks in the door and sees a window that leads to a beautiful garden. She goes back to the table and finds a bottle. she drinks it and becomes small. She doesn't wanna be but then finds a cake and eats it and she becomes really strange. She then balances it out by eating the rest of the cake to get back small.

Setting: Outside some farmhouse and in the rabbit hole. I don't think I'll change anything about this right now.

What I Could Change: I could look at this story from the sister's perspective. Maybe she just looked up from her book and saw her sister jumping into a hole and didn't think anything about it. Then, after a while, she realizes that something is very wrong.

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