R: "Do you hear the snow against the window panes Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if someone was kissing the window all over outside. I wonder is the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.'" ( p. 153). This passage continues on for a few more sentences but I just wanted to include and excerpt. As I mentioned in a previous blog, Carroll has a brilliant way of portraying the mind of a seven year old girl. I felt like this passage aptly reflected that brilliance. He has a way of making Alice's thoughts so curious and sweet that you can't help but appreciate her. The thoughts he has created are so new and fresh that you just wish you still saw the world in this same fantasy filled way. Alice is also speaking to her kitten as she begins this train of thought and I thought that this was a nice continuation of a character trait from the first novel. In Alice in Wonderland we learn of Alice's pet cat Dinah whom she talks about often but we never directly meet. The kitten Alice is speaking to now is actually one of Dinah's kittens. This represents that time has passed since the first book depicting a time in Alice's life and also carries over Alice's love for cats from the first novel to the second.
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