Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, often shortened to Alice in Wonderland and combined with its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, is a story written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the name of Lewis Carroll.

Traditional Plot
Chapter 1 – Down the Rabbit Hole: Alice is feeling bored while sitting on the riverbank with her sister, when she notices a talking, clothed White Rabbit with a pocket watch run past. She follows it down a rabbit hole when suddenly she falls a long way to a curious hall with many locked doors of all sizes. She finds a small key to a door too small for her to fit through, but through it she sees an attractive garden. She then discovers a bottle on a table labelled "DRINK ME", the contents of which cause her to shrink too small to reach the key which she has left on the table. A cake with "EAT ME" on it causes her to grow to such a tremendous size her head hits the ceiling.

Chapter 2 – The Pool of Tears: Alice is unhappy and cries as her tears flood the hallway. After shrinking down again due to a fan she had picked up, Alice swims through her own tears and meets a Mouse, who is swimming as well. She tries to make small talk with him in elementary French (thinking he may be a French mouse) but her opening gambit "Où est ma chatte?" offends the mouse.

Chapter 3 – The Caucus Race and a Long Tale: The sea of tears becomes crowded with other animals and birds that have been swept away by the rising waters. Alice and the other animals convene on the bank and the question among them is how to get dry again. The mouse gives them a very dry lecture on William the Conqueror. A Dodo decides that the best thing to dry them off would be a Caucus-Race, which consists of everyone running in a circle with no clear winner. Alice eventually frightens all the animals away, unwittingly, by talking about her (moderately ferocious) cat.

Chapter 4 – The Rabbit Sends a Little Bill: The White Rabbit appears again in search of the Duchess's gloves and fan. Mistaking her for his maidservant, Mary Ann, he orders Alice to go into the house and retrieve them, but once she gets inside she starts growing. The horrified Rabbit orders his gardener, Bill the Lizard, to climb on the roof and go down the chimney. Outside, Alice hears the voices of animals that have gathered to gawk at her giant arm. The crowd hurls pebbles at her, which turn into little cakes. Alice eats them, and they reduce her again in size.

Chapter 5 – Advice from a Caterpillar: Alice comes upon a mushroom and sitting on it is a blue Caterpillar smoking a hookah. The Caterpillar questions Alice and she admits to her current identity crisis, compounded by her inability to remember a poem. Before crawling away, the caterpillar tells Alice that one side of the mushroom will make her taller and the other side will make her shorter. She breaks off two pieces from the mushroom. One side makes her shrink smaller than ever, while another causes her neck to grow high into the trees, where a pigeon mistakes her for a serpent. With some effort, Alice brings herself back to her usual height. She stumbles upon a small estate and uses the mushroom to reach a more appropriate height.

Chapter 6 – Pig and Pepper: A Fish-Footman has an invitation for the Duchess of the house, which he delivers to a Frog-Footman. Alice observes this transaction and, after a perplexing conversation with the frog, lets herself into the house. The Duchess's Cook is throwing dishes and making a soup that has too much pepper, which causes Alice, the Duchess, and her baby (but not the cook or grinning Cheshire Cat) to sneeze violently. Alice is given the baby by the Duchess and to her surprise, the baby turns into a pig. The Cheshire Cat appears in a tree, directing her to the March Hare’s house. He disappears but his grin remains behind to float on its own in the air prompting Alice to remark that she has often seen a cat without a grin but never a grin without a cat.

Chapter 7 – A Mad Tea-Party: Alice becomes a guest at a "mad" tea party along with the March Hare, the Hatter, and a very tired Dormouse who falls asleep frequently, only to be violently woken up moments later by the March Hare and the Hatter. The characters give Alice many riddles and stories, including the famous ‘Why is a raven like a writing desk?'. The Hatter reveals that they have tea all day because Time has punished him by eternally standing still at 6 pm (tea time). Alice becomes insulted and tired of being bombarded with riddles and she leaves claiming that it was the stupidest tea party that she had ever been to.

Chapter 8 – The Queen's Croquet Ground: Alice leaves the tea party and enters the garden where she comes upon three living playing cards painting the white roses on a rose tree red because the Queen of Hearts hates white roses. A procession of more cards, kings and queens and even the White Rabbit enters the garden. Alice then meets the King and Queen. The Queen, a figure difficult to please, introduces her trademark phrase "Off with his head!" which she utters at the slightest dissatisfaction with a subject. Alice is invited (or some might say ordered) to play a game of croquet with the Queen and the rest of her subjects but the game quickly descends into chaos. Live flamingos are used as mallets and hedgehogs as balls and Alice once again meets the Cheshire Cat. The Queen of Hearts then orders the Cat to be beheaded, only to have her executioner complain that this is impossible since the head is all that can be seen of him. Because the cat belongs to the Duchess, the Queen is prompted to release the Duchess from prison to resolve the matter.

Chapter 9 – The Mock Turtle's Story: The Duchess is brought to the croquet ground at Alice's request. She ruminates on finding morals in everything around her. The Queen of Hearts dismisses her on the threat of execution and she introduces Alice to the Gryphon, who takes her to the Mock Turtle. The Mock Turtle is very sad, even though he has no sorrow. He tries to tell his story about how he used to be a real turtle in school, which The Gryphon interrupts so they can play a game.

Chapter 10 – Lobster Quadrille: The Mock Turtle and the Gryphon dance to the Lobster Quadrille, while Alice recites (rather incorrectly) “Tis the Voice of the Lobster". The Mock Turtle sings them "Beautiful Soup" during which the Gryphon drags Alice away for an impending trial.

Chapter 11 – Who Stole the Tarts?: Alice attends a trial whereby the Knave of Hearts is accused of stealing the Queen's tarts. The jury is composed of various animals, including Bill the Lizard, the White Rabbit is the court's trumpeter, and the judge is the King of Hearts.She placed two pierces of mushroom into her mouth and her body started to grow. The wolf was frightened but he called all his card soldiers. She said," I am not scared of you. You are nothing but a pack of cards." The soldiers ran away but she got hold of them and they turned into a pack of cards. She placed them into a box and placed them inside her pockets. The wolf was not happy but rather annoyed and decided to call his officials to attack her. She grabbed hold of them in just one hand and put them into a bag. The wolf called a huge monster to kill her but she dodged herself while trying to get another pierce of the mushroom. She ate the pierce and she grew even more. She grabbed hold of the monster and twisted it until it was the size for her to place it into the bottle. She changed back into her human size and said, "Who is stronger now?"The wolf cried and out came a wolf warrior. She said, "Is this the best you can do?" She grabbed a starfish and placed it into the body of the     wolf warrior. Alice controlled the wolf warrior and Alice ordered it to go inside her mouth. She took a big gulp and she ate the wolf warrior. The wolf charged at her trying to bite her. After twenty minutes of fighting, both of them got tired. The wolf felt that he wanted to end the match fast so he jumped and wanted to grab Alice. Alice shouted, "JunJun Zen shin Hen!"The wolf disappeared and became a fly. The fly started to run away but a force field created by the prince caught it. She stuck out her tongue, grabbed the fly and swallowed the fly, "this spell will make you stay inside my body for ever. I will not just kill you. Melt in my body; take your time to melt." Despite how hard he tried to escape from the 'prison', the fly was still inside her stomach. At one day, the fly came out from the mouth but now he could only do what she told him to do. From then on, there is no wicked wolf in the country anymore.

Show Adaption

 * The Evil Queen visited Wonderland with the aid of a man named Jefferson, who, after being abandoned there, would become the Mad Hatter.
 * The Queen of Hearts is actually Cora, the mother of the Evil Queen and the miller's daughter from the fairytale "Rumplestiltskin". Her dominant role in her marriage with Henry (the Evil Queen's father) mirrors the marriage between the Queen of Hearts and the King of Hearts.
 * Cora being sent to Wonderland by the Looking Glass by her daughter references the Looking Glass Alice went through in the novel.
 * Jack mentions that she had once slayed a Jabberwock that was terrorizing a village in a "far off land" and that the villagers could not repay her in gold, so they paid her with a piece of a magical mushroom that when consumed can shrink or enlarge someone's size. She also mentions a wise woman who assured her of its power, as she had not used it herself.

Characters Featured

 * Mad Hatter (named Jefferson)
 * Queen of Hearts (named Cora)
 * Knave of Hearts
 * Caterpillar
 * King of Hearts (named Henry)
 * Jabberwock (mentioned)

Items Featured

 * Mad Hatter's hat
 * The Looking Glass
 * Wonderland's Mushroom

Locations Featured

 * Wonderland
 * The Portal of Doors