Alice in Wonderland

P: How has content throughout the book led to the end?

R: As I mentioned before it is to my understanding that the entire story is simply a dream of Alice's. I believe that Carroll has provided subtle hints of this fact throughout. For example, when Alice is called as witness in the King's court her skirt proceeds to knock over the entire stand of jurors. This, Alice explains, reminds her of the previous week when she knocked over her goldfish bowl. Alice began quickly scoping up the jurors and placing them back in the box for fear that they may die if she did not do it quickly. Just like real dreams, or I certainly know just like in my dreams, most everything I dream about is a result of something that happened to me in real life. Usually when I wake up I can deduce exactly why I visualized different moments in my dreams. Also, when Alice is continuously asked to repeat different lessons she has been learning in school she can't ever seem to say them how they should be said. I tend to do that to if I sleep with school on my mind it will appear somewhere in my dream. Alice seems to be very school oriented in this novel, although she may not be the best in her class, which is why I think that she would dream about this sort of thing. Finally whenever Alice asks a question of another character about some curious fact to which she doesn't know the answer each character in her dream either provides a nonsensical answer or avoids the question all together. I believe this is because, since Alice is dreaming, her own knowledge of each subject is holding back the knowledge of each character considering she created each and everyone of them.