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Day Month Year Reflections on Pig and Pepper Chapters 6 and 7 have Alice continuing on her adventures in Wonderland. As discussed in previous reflections, Alice is beginning to think that the entirety of Wonderland is useless and filled with nonsense. Consider her arrival at the Frog-Footman’s house. All she does is knock on the door. Now, in the ‘normal’ world, the Frog-Footman would simply answer the door and ask Alice what she wants. Wonderland, however, is far from the typical place.

Rather than simply answering the door, the Frog-Footman goes into a long rant about how her knocking is useless because the door can only be opened from the inside, and other similar meaningless quotations. This leads Alice to be even more frustrated than she was in earlier chapters. While on the surface the way of life in Wonderland seems strange to Alice, this is perhaps because she is not really at home. Not being from Wonderland means that she cannot really understand the mindset of the critters that reside in the area.

In this way, she grows increasingly mad at the actions that are taking place around her, when she should be soaking up what is being said and trying to understand what is really happening. Take the fact, for example, that every question Alice asks in chapters six and seven is met with a nonsensical answer. This is completely alien to Alice’s way of life. She was raised, the reader is lead to believe, in a world that has purpose and direction. In her mind, Wonderland lacks both. Her questions, while logical in her former world, are actually illogical to the animals in Wonderland.

In this way, the animals and Alice continue to go back and forth, until Alice is on the verge of giving up. It is quite interesting to watch this ‘battle of the minds’ and consider how it will play out through the remainder of the story. Works CitedCarroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass. Chicago, IL: J.G. Ferguson Pub., 1992. Print.