Reading Notes: Alice in Wonderland, Part B

Story source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865).

Illustration by Sir John Tenniel

• Alice meets the March Hare, Mad Hatter, and a Dormouse
• This part is dialogue heavy with quick back and forth between each character
• The Hatter and Hare talk in circles
• Doormouse is half asleep but still joins in the conversation here and there
• Alice leaves the tea party frustrated
• She stumbles into the Queen's rose garden
• Gardeners (cards) are painting some white flowers red
• they explain that they accidentally planted white roses and needed to fix them before the queen sees
• The Queen and her procession come through (including the White Rabbit)
• Alice asks the White Rabbit where the Duchess is (since he was worried about her at the very beginning of the story)
• He says that she was sentenced to a beheading
• Alice helps the gardeners hide after the Queen orders them to be beheaded
• The Queen invites Alice to play croquet
• The balls were hedgehogs and mallets were flamingoes
• The Queen shouts "Off with their head" at everyone and Alice gets scared
• She notices the Cheshire Cat is there and talks to him
• The King and Queen notice the cat and the King wants him gone
• The execution turns into an argument about whether or not they can actually behead the cat since his body is invisible
• Alice distracts them and says the Cat belongs to the Duchess
• The cat disappears

Story idea: Story from White Rabbit's or Duchess's perspective. Or maybe even the Queen of Hearts