Background
Carroll builds much of the humor from wordplay, puzzles, parody, and reversals of adult logic. The story rewards close attention to language: a character’s confident explanation may be less stable than the nonsense it tries to correct.
Reading notes
- Read dialogue aloud and notice how a change in wording changes the argument.
- Track moments when Alice’s size or name shifts, and ask how those changes affect her choices.
- Separate the rules a character claims to follow from the rules that actually govern the scene.
Version note
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