Summary of “Alice Through the Looking Glass” for a reader’s diary
Author's name : Lewis Carroll
Title : Alice Through the Looking Glass
Number of pages : 158. Lewis Carroll. "Alice in the Wonderland". Publishing house "Rosman". 2010
Genre : Fairy tale
Year of writing : 1871
The material was prepared jointly with a teacher of the highest category, Kuchmina Nadezhda Vladimirovna.
Experience as a teacher of Russian language and literature - 27 years.
Main characters
Alice is a smart, inquisitive, cheerful girl who loves exciting adventures.
The Black Queen is a strange, harmful, awkward ruler.
The White Queen is kind and caring in her own way, but also harmful.
Tweedledum and Tweedledum are cheerful, sweet brothers who just can’t find a common language.
Kitty is Alice's little black kitten.
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Summary of Carroll's novel "Alice Through the Looking Glass"
English Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There · 1871 Summary of the novel Readable in 6 minutes, original - 3 hours
In this book, Lewis Carroll, a great lover of puzzles, paradoxes and “shifters”, the author of the already famous “Alice in Wonderland”, sends his favorite heroine, the girl Alice, to another fairy-tale country - Through the Looking Glass.
Like last time, Alice sets off on adventures thanks to her curious and cute animal - a black kitten, with whom she plays half asleep. And on the other side of the magical mirror face, various miracles and transformations begin.
Alice seemed to find herself in exactly the same room with a blazing fireplace, but the portraits there were whispering about something, the clock was smiling broadly, and near the fireplace Alice saw many small, but living chess pieces. The Black King and the Black Queen, the White King and the White Queen, the Rooks and Pawns were walking there and chatting decorously, obviously not noticing the appearance of Alice.
And when the girl picked up the king and cleaned him of the ash, he was so frightened by this intervention of an incomprehensible invisible force that, by his own admission, his sideburns went cold to the tips, which, the Black Queen did not fail to notice, he did not have at all. And even when clever Alice figured out how in this country it was necessary to read poems written in a completely incomprehensible way, and held the book up to the mirror, the meaning of the poem still somehow eluded her, although it was felt that the words contained a lot of familiarity and the events depicted were amazing.
Alice really wanted to explore the unusual country, but it was not easy to do: no matter how hard she tried to climb to the top of the hill, every time she again found herself at the entrance to the house from which she came. After talking with very lively flowers growing nearby in a flower bed, Alice heard unusual advice: to go in the opposite direction from the goal. Seeing the Black Queen, Alice did so and, to her amazement, met her at the foot of a previously unattainable hill. It was then that Alice noticed that the country was divided into neat squares with hedges and streams - like a chessboard. And Alice really wanted to take part in this chess game, even if only as a pawn; although most of all, of course, she wanted to become Queen. But in chess, if you try really hard, even a pawn can become a queen. The Black Queen even told her how to get to the eighth line. Alice set off on a journey full of surprises and adventures. In this extraordinary country, instead of bees, elephants flew around Alice, on the train in which Alice found herself, passengers (including a Goat, a Beetle and a Horse) presented tickets the size of themselves, and the Controller looked at Alice for a long time through a telescope, microscope, theater binoculars and finally concluded: “You’re going in the wrong direction!” Having approached the stream, the train carelessly jumped over it (and with it Alice jumped to the fourth line of the chessboard). Then she met so many incredible creatures and heard so many incredible opinions that she could not even remember her own name. Then she no longer objected when the Lion and the Unicorn, these fairy-tale monsters, began to call her, Alice, the Beast.
On the fourth line, as the Black Queen predicted, Alice met two fat men, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, who were always arguing and even fighting over trifles. The brawlers pretty much frightened Alice: bringing her to the Black King who was sleeping nearby, they declared that he was only dreaming of her and that as soon as the King woke up, like Alice and themselves, everything around would disappear. Although Alice did not believe them, she still did not wake up the King and check the twins’ words.
Life through the looking glass was reflected in everything. The White Queen, who met Alice, promised to treat the girl with jam tomorrow. Alice began to refuse, but the Queen reassured her: tomorrow really never comes anyway, it comes only today, and jam is promised for tomorrow. Moreover, it turned out that the Queen remembers both the past and the future at once, and when she screamed in pain over her finger that bled a little later, she still did not prick it at all, this happened only after some time. And then, in the forest, Alice could not cut the pie and treat those gathered: the pie kept growing together; then Lev explained to her that the Mirror Pie must first be distributed, and only then cut. Here everything happened contrary to the usual logic, as if backwards.
Ordinary objects also behaved in a way that was unlike anything else. The egg suddenly grew before Alice's eyes and turned into a round, forehead-shaped man, whom Alice immediately recognized as Humpty Dumpty from the famous nursery rhyme. However, the conversation with him put poor Alice at a complete dead end, because with him even quite familiar words acquired unexpected meanings, let alone unfamiliar ones!..
This property - to interpret in an unusual way, to turn familiar words inside out - was inherent in almost all inhabitants of the Looking Glass. When Alice met the White King in the forest and told him that she did not see anyone on the road, the King envied her: of course, she managed to see Nobody; The King himself never got to see him.
In the end, Alice, of course, reached the eighth line, where she felt an unusually heavy object on her head - it was a crown. However, the Black and White Queens who appeared soon still behaved with her like two angry governesses, puzzling the newly-crowned Queen with their strange logic. And the feast, seemingly arranged in her honor, was also surprisingly strange. Angry Alice pounced on the Black Queen who came to her hand, began to shake her and suddenly discovered that she was holding in her hands... a black kitten. So it was a dream! But whose? The question is still awaiting an answer.
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Plot
This time, Alice, following her playful black kitten Kitty, found herself in the fairy-tale world of Through the Looking Glass. Passing through the mirror, the girl found herself in a room that was an exact reflection of her own room. Only here everything was alive: the wall clocks were smiling broadly, the paintings were lively discussing something interesting, and the chess pieces were walking importantly on the chessboard and talking peacefully with each other.
As you know, Alice was a very curious girl who wanted to explore everything on her own. But this time, no matter how hard she tried, she could not climb the hill: every time the girl ended up in the original place. Only after talking with the flowers did Alice learn that in Through the Looking Glass you need to do everything the other way around.
The girl chose the “correct” opposite direction and soon found herself not far from the Black Queen. The area was divided into large black and white squares and was very reminiscent of a chessboard. Alice really wanted to play the game to become the queen of the Looking Glass. However, she acted as a humble White Pawn.
In Through the Looking Glass everything was very unusual. So, instead of bees, a flock of tiny elephants was circling in the sky, and the passengers on the train were a horse, a beetle and a goat. Alice was expected to meet two of the cutest fatties, Tweedledum and Tweedledum, who could not come to a common opinion and were constantly quarreling and swearing.
Life in Through the Looking Glass was so strange that Alice could not adapt to it. So, for example, the White Queen always wanted to feed the girl jam for tomorrow, explaining that tomorrow will never come and she needs to eat right now. The Queen explained to Alice that she should cry over a cut finger in advance, even before the cut appears.
The girl was also very surprised that she could not cut the pie into pieces and distribute it: every time it came back together. They explained to her that everyone should first be treated to a pie, and only after that should they cut it.
While traveling through the Looking Glass, Alice suddenly felt a crown on her head. Upon learning of this, the Black and White Queens were indignant. The feast in honor of the new queen went awry, and Alice began to shake the Black Queen as hard as she could.
Suddenly the girl realized that she was not shaking the Black Queen at all, but her little black kitten, Kitty. Looking around, Alice realized that she had left the Looking Glass and was back in her room. All things stood in their places, did not laugh, did not argue with each other and did not make funny faces. Alice was never able to fully understand whether her journey through the Looking Glass was a dream or reality...
Summary of Alice Through the Looking Glass - Carroll Lewis
Alice in Wonderland Summary of the fairy tale In this book, Lewis Carroll, a great lover of puzzles, paradoxes and “reversals”, the author of the already famous “Alice in Wonderland,” sends his favorite heroine, the girl Alice, to another fairy-tale country - Through the Looking Glass.
Like last time, Alice embarks on an adventure thanks to her curious and cute animal - a black kitten, with whom she plays half asleep. And on the other side of the magical mirror face, various miracles and transformations begin. /> Alice seemed to find herself in exactly the same room with a blazing fireplace, but the portraits there were whispering about something, the clock was smiling broadly, and near the fireplace Alice saw many small, but living chess pieces. There they walked and chatted decorously, obviously not noticing the appearance of Alice, the Black King and the Black Queen, the White King and the White Queen, the Rooks and the Pawns. And when the girl picked up the king and cleaned him of the ash, he was so frightened by this intervention of an incomprehensible invisible force that, by his own admission, his sideburns went cold to the tips, which, the Red Queen did not fail to notice, he did not have at all. And even when clever Alice figured out how in this country it was necessary to read poems written in a completely incomprehensible way, and held the book up to the mirror, the meaning of the poem still somehow eluded her, although it was felt that the words contained a lot of familiarity and the events depicted were amazing. Alice really wanted to explore the unusual country, but it was not easy to do: no matter how hard she tried to climb to the top of the hill, every time she again found herself at the entrance to the house from which she came. After talking with very lively flowers growing nearby in a flower bed, Alice heard unusual advice: to go in the opposite direction from the goal. Seeing the Red Queen, Alice did so and, to her amazement, met her at the foot of a previously unattainable hill. It was then that Alice noticed that the country was divided into neat cells with hedges and streams - like a chessboard. And Alice really wanted to take part in this chess game, even if only as a pawn; although most of all, of course, she wanted to become Queen. But in chess, if you try really hard, even a pawn can become a queen. The Black Queen even told her how to get to the eighth line. Alice set off on a journey full of surprises and adventures. In this extraordinary country, instead of bees, elephants flew around Alice, on the train in which Alice found herself, passengers (including a Goat, a Beetle and a Horse) presented tickets the size of themselves, and the Controller looked at Alice for a long time through a telescope, microscope, theater binoculars and finally concluded: “You’re going in the wrong direction!” Having approached the stream, the train carelessly jumped over it (and Alice jumped over to the fourth line of the chessboard). Then she met so many incredible creatures and heard so many incredible opinions that she could not even remember her own name. Then she no longer objected when the Lion and the Unicorn, these fairy-tale monsters, began to call her, Alice, the Beast. On the fourth line, as the Red Queen predicted, Alice met two fat men, Tweedledum and Tweedledum, who were always arguing and even fighting over trifles. The brawlers pretty much frightened Alice: bringing her to the Black King who was sleeping nearby, they declared that he was only dreaming of her in a dream and that as soon as the King woke up, like Alice and themselves, everything around would disappear. Although Alice did not believe them, she still did not wake up the King and check the twins’ words. Life through the looking glass was reflected in everything. The White Queen, who met Alice, promised to treat the girl with jam tomorrow. Alice began to refuse, but the Queen reassured her: tomorrow really never comes anyway, it comes only today, and jam is promised for tomorrow. Moreover, it turned out that the Queen remembers both the past and the future at once, and when she screamed in pain over her finger that bled a little later, she still did not prick it at all, this happened only after some time. And then, in the forest, Alice could not cut the pie and treat those gathered: the pie kept growing together; then Lev explained to her that the Mirror Pie must first be distributed, and only then cut. Here everything happened contrary to the usual logic, as if backwards. Ordinary objects also behaved in a way that was unlike anything else. The egg suddenly grew before Alice's eyes and turned into a round, forehead-shaped man, whom Alice immediately recognized as Humpty Dumpty from the famous nursery rhyme. However, the conversation with him put poor Alice at a complete dead end, because with him even quite familiar words acquired unexpected meanings, let alone unfamiliar ones!.. This property - to interpret in an unusual way, to turn familiar words inside out - was inherent in almost all inhabitants of the Looking Glass. When Alice met the White King in the forest and told him that she did not see anyone on the road, the King envied her: if only she had managed to see Nobody; The King himself never got to see him. In the end, Alice was completely gone, of course, to the eighth line, where she felt an unusually heavy object on her head - it was a crown. However, the Black and White Queens, who soon appeared, still behaved with her like two angry governesses, puzzling the newly-crowned Queen with their strange logic. And the feast, apparently organized in her honor, was also surprisingly strange. Angry Alice pounced on the Red Queen who came to her hand, began to shake her and suddenly discovered that she was holding in her hands... a black kitten. So it was a dream! But whose? The question is still awaiting an answer.
