Through the Looking Glass

This book is very similar to Alice in Wonderland, but this time, she went through the looking glass. Alice, who I found out is only 7 years old and six months, is still a logical person in an unlogical world, but the more I think about it, this book makes more sense from its nonsense than the other book did.

You know how a paragraph appears backwards when you hold it up to the mirror? Well, this book is just like that: not written to be read backwards(a poem that Alice-and the reader- reads in this land is, however), but events that begin with the end. For example, the white queen (like in chess-there's red and white chess people here) screamed that she was bleeding from her broche pricking her finger, pricked her finger, and then began bleeding. Weird, right? But it makes perfect sense when you think about it in context with the mirror. At the beginning of the novel, Alice is speaking to one of her cats about what things are like in the place through the looking glass, foreshadowing the types of events, such as the one above, that happen. I'm only about halfway through the novel, and I can already give plenty more examples.

One of the main differences I have noticed so far between this novel and the other one is that the characters Alice encounters make more sense as well. For example, Alice is often unclear in her requests/conversations, even though the common reader understands them perfectly. When the character responds, however, they take her thought literally, word for word. You then realize, as the reader, that when you think about the literal construction of her statement, she did say it incorrectly. The more I read, the more I encounter this. Therefore, the big question is if Alice is still the logical person, or if she has "converted" to fit into an illogical world that's beginning to make logical sense?