A'lonyah Chapter 8

In chapter 8 Alice sees the Queen of Hearts and she asks Alice for her name. The interesting part is that Alice would say that she doesn’t know who she is but when the queen asked her she automatically said she did. Alice shows no fear when it comes to the queen, it's like she becomes a whole new person. We will see what is later to come. Queen Victoria is well known for her Victorian Era. The queen was very dominate, ruthless, and strict, she has also set the bar high for new queens by having a long reign of 60 years.The Queen of Hearts is a representation of Queen Victoria. Most people would say that she’s a representation because of the way her and the queen handles things. Most of the time they handle things the same way. My connections towards the archetypes and Queen Victoria,  would be that the queen is losing, or has lost her innocence and has gained passion. I say this because white represents innocence, while red represent passion. I would say that she has a passion for hurt. Passion for hurt because in my eyes any person’s innocence is when you’re younger, because Queen Victoria’s father passed before she could even remember it made her hurt. It made her hurt because you father is your first love, he’s supposed to teach you how you should be treated.

X's chapter 7

Alice just had the first and worst tea party of her life. When Alice wondered into the tea party, they said there was no more room, when there really was, so Alice sat down with them. After being rude to Alice for some while, they reveal that they upsetted time and been stuck at tea time for a long time. After that, the dormouse begins the tell a story,which Alice keeps interrupting. Alice keeps asking questions. The trio gets fed up and ask Alice some questions. Feeling greatly offended Alice storms off and goes through a hall to a garden

Dr. James here, I need to ask you a question: have you ever heard of mad hatter disease? Probably not. Mad hatter disease, or mad hatter syndrome, is occupational chronic mercury poisoning among hat makers whose felting work involved prolonged exposure to mercury vapors. In the Victorian era, men had to work for their hats, being that clothing manufacturers were big at the time. But, with the risk being, they might come down with mercury poisoning. With enough poisoning they come down with mad matter disease. guess whats the name of one of the charters in the story: The Mad Hatter. I think since time hasn't moved since that day it made them become mad, so as a "certified" doctor i would diagnose everyone with mad hatter disease.  

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X=A's chapter 6

In the story, Alice was looking at the house and wondering how to get in there. Alice is curious as to what is going on in the house. The door flies open and a plate comes out, which in turns causes Alice to duck. We all know Alice is a curious person, which is why she’s goes into the house. Alice is distracted by a smiling cat, then by the duchess, and her creature. The dishes started to go flying, hitting the duchess and her baby. The duchess stared to bounce the baby up and down, making the baby cry, and she started to sing a song. The duchess giving the creature to Alice. Alice goes outside and puts the creature on the floor and it turns into a pig.

Xavier:

In this chapter, we see Alice… hold on. Someones texting me. Oh! Its Alice

Me: hey alice

Alice: hey xavier

Me: how's that temper

Alice: getting better, im usually a calm person

Me: i kinda figured that.

Alice: how?

Me: you always wear a blue dress

Alice:?

Me: blue means peace and calmness

Alice: o rlly?

Me: how’s it going?

Alice: terrible i just saw a baby being abused.

Me: you know april is national child abuse prevention right?

Alice: no i didnt.

Alice: i wish i did something about it tho. It made me really upset

Me: me too. i just read article about child abuse. While child abuse and neglect fatalities have declined, which is good news, there has been an increase in overall reporting, and confirmed child abuse cases increased from 679,000 in 2013 to 702,000 in 2014

Alice: WOW!! Really!?!?!?!?!?! Where did you get that from?

Me:("Statistics and Facts About Child Abuse in the U.S.", 2016)

Alice: im gonna do whatever i can to help!!! #savethekids

Me: me too

Me soo you seeing anyone?

Alice has left the chat

A’lonyah:

For my connection of something that has to do with the story i chose the topic child abuse. I say child abuse because when having a child in the kitchen that’s like endangering your child. I think this because a lot of things can happen when you’re in the kitchen, because you can be cooking with grease and burn your child. I think this relates to chapter 6 because in the story the cook throws things at the creature which would be considered child abuse. The duchess may not have looked at it that way, for we here in reality look at it as child neglect.This relates to the Victorian Era because of child neglect. Women who have other people take care of their child. Another way this could relate to the victorian era because you don’t hear anything about the father, the women is taking care of the baby without the father’s help.

X+A's chapter 5

First “Hold your temper” Alice loses her temper in the story because the Caterpillar wants to know who she is, but she doesn’t know who she is. Alice feels as though that because she’s been through a change so much even her own personality has changed so she doesn’t believe she’s still herself.

”One side makes you grow taller, the other side makes you shrink shorter”.  Alice feels as though she to short so when the Caterpillar gives her advice on how to grow/shrink she takes it. Alice eats one side and grows very tall that she’s topping the trees. When she eats the other side of the mushroom Alice shrinks to smalls. So Alice takes a lick, and what happens next is that she will grow but not to much.

      Some advice I would give to Alice is that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover meaning that Alice shouldn’t judge Wonderland by their looks. I think personally that Alice doesn’t really like wonderland because it doesn’t look or feel like home.

Another piece of advice I would give Alice is that you only live once. I think Alice doesn’t know how to live meaning sometimes just go with the flow. I understand that Alice is still a young girl who is curious, but I think she should loosen up, because this might just be for the good and not bad.

Summary

“Keep your temper” is the best advice Alice had ever got from a caterpillar. One day while Alice is walking, the Caterpillar stops Alice and tells her he has something to tell her. Alice only stops because she feels as though the advice could be useful for her. “Keep your temper” the caterpillar says. The advice comes from Alice wanting to be taller, but she doesn’t really know how to. So the Caterpillar told her that “one side makes you taller, one side makes you smaller.”  Meaning it’s a possibility that she can grow taller, or a possibility that she can shrink. Our job this chapter was to create a hornet feed to help our readers understand what’s going on in the book.

Xavier and A’lonyah Chapter 4

The rabbit walks by his house worried that queen will execute him. He calls for his servant, Mary Anne but Alice thinks he is talking to her, she follows him into the little house.When she climbs up the steps into a room, she finds a bottle without label on it. She drinks it and begins to grow until she fill the whole house with her body. White sees this and calls for Bill to remove Alice from the house. Everyone watched as Bill goes down the chimney, but gets kicked by Alice.When they decide to burn the house, Alice threatens to sick Dinah on them if they do.

The rabbit orders everyone to throw pebbles at Alice but, the pebbles turn into cakes. When Alice eats the cake she shrinks too small. She found a puppy and throws a stick for it to catch. After that, she sees a mushroom through the grass, so she decides to go closer.

Simple: has one independent clause| short, common less mature- child(8-10 years old)

Compound: has two or more independent clause| grouped, lots of independents, caucus race attendees- married parents

Complex: has one independent and dependent clause|  parent and child, unsure, Alice - divorced parent

Compound-complex : has one dependent clause and two independent clause

Conjunction: brings things together- grandparents

For this blog post we have to relate chapter 4 to the different types of sentences. Then i realized it's all just one big family. Let me explain. All the types of sentences are family. As you can by the example above, each type has a role to play. Conjunctions are the grandparents. The conjunctions gave birth to a simple sentence named Alex(the child). The simple child grow up and met another simple sentence named Nylah. They got married and became a compound sentence. Nylah got pregnant and had a simple sentence named James, so they they became a compound-complex sentence. After 4 years, they got divorced, so Alex and James became a complex sentence.

Chapter 3

I’m connecting Alice to Love and Hip Hop most famous love triangle. Which would be Peter, Amina, and Tara. I’m connecting the caucus race to this because both is meaningful at the end of the day. With the whole love triangle thing Peter cheated on Tara with Amina, and ended up marrying Amina. After a while of them being married he cheated on Amina with Tara. The issue at the end of the day is that if he cheats on Tara with you what makes you think he won’t cheat on you with someone else. I think this is meaningful because Amina tries to get Peter to stop cheating because he hurts her when he does it but its only so much she can say when she’s constantly putting herself through it by staying with him. Amina says she stays with him because of their child together and she wants to be a real family when in the real world she doesn’t realize she took him from his real family. I feel as though this relates to the Caucus race because Alice excuse of her running in the race is because she wants to get dry and that she feels as though she haves to in order to get dry. It’s pointless because the water keeps coming even if they do keep running. So at the end of the day the point that I’m trying to make is that it’s only so much a person can do or say it’s up to them if they continue to put themselves through it.

Its pretty obvious that people care about things too much. In the article i read its talks about things that people care too much about.  In the story, i would say the mouse cares too much about his past. He trying to hide something. Also in the article it talks about politics. It's pointless to worry about the small stuff. In chapter 3 Lewis Carroll makes fun of politics saying it’s pointless  

Alice shrinks again and is able to go through the door but gets swept away in a flood of her own tears. She goes to land and finds a bunch of animals having a caucus meeting. Since everyone is wet the dodo orders a caucus race. After an half an hour everyone is not wet anymore. The dodo bird said everyone deserves prizes and pointed at Alice. Then, Alice gave out comfits. When the dodo asked what else she had she said a thimble which the dodo took and gave back. The rest of the animals pleaded that the mouse tell the rest of his story, but the mouse gets angry and leaves, which makes Alice upset. 

(manson, "12 stupid things that people care about way too much ", 2013)

Chapter 2

When i think about how Alice can relate to 2016 something instantly clicked in my head. I said Alice relates to females when we’re on our menstrual cycle because our emotions can be all over the place. I think it also relates to middle schooler because in the beginning everything is hard. You’re left wondering how females saying how they got there period already, so you’ll start thinking “when will i get mine?”, “why does everyone else have one and i don’t?” You’ll feel weird emotions during this. When it comes to middle schoolers then you’re left with “When will I make friends?” “Why is this so hard?” Things like that. I found it weird how bipolar Alice is acting throughout the chapter. She was crying at first. Then she was trying to figure out if she changed for anybody. Then she was crying again. After that she was working on math and geometry which she was getting wrong. I wanted to say to she is going through puberty but it's more than that. She like a middle schooler going through puberty. Not only is she being extremely emotional, she is still adapting to an new environment. This is happening a lot in 2016. It’s not only females who feel like this when they first go to middle school, everybody gets scared at this point in life, and it’s not just middle school when you feel like this. You can feel like this when you're a new student at a new school leaving your friends. I think that everything we’ve talked about can relate with anxiety. I say this because when you’re going through anything you instantly have all of these thoughts running through your mind nonstop. . In chapter 2 Alice grows.which causes a rush of emotions for her She tries various things to calm herself down. The rabbit reappears with a pair of white gloves and a fan and then she shrinks.  This connects to 2016 because everyone around this age of as of 9-12 goes through a rush of emotions.

What to Expect When Girls Hit Puberty. (n.d.). Retrieved March 30, 2016, from http://teens.webmd.com/girls/facts-about-puberty-girls

(Woodham, "Why Kids Are Hitting Puberty Earlier Than Ever", 2015)

While sitting with her sister, Alice saw a white rabbit scurrying across the field saying i’m late. She followed the rabbit down a rabbit hole. After falling for a long time she came to a 3-legged glass table with a bottle on it. She drinks it but she shrinks. She finds a piece of cake  witch that reverses the effects. Right now in Alice's adventures in the Wonderland, Alice is curious young and innocent. When she goes down the hole she loses her innocence. We figured this out because we’ve been learning colors and digging deeper into things like this. The color of Alice dress that Alice was wearing when she was falling down the hole was white, and white stands for purity. Alice was falling down a black hole which stands for death or the end. When we put that together that gave us a hidden message which is Alice is a young girl losing her innocence. I think that this is sums up the whole chapter because that’s basically what the whole chapter is about a young girl losing her innocence and that’s what we had to make a connection toward

A lot of teens are out here getting pregnant because of their decisions. They want to have sex like everyone else is, they go to parties, then they get drunk and things happens. They wake up  thinking it was just a one night stand, when really they are carrying a baby inside of them. After they finally get tested then they start panicking and talking about how they don’t want to tell their parents. So they tell a very close friend and then they go online and look for other possibilities. Once they come across the abortion process some of them would just go get an abortion. I would say this relates to Alice because Alice was a young innocent girl who just was very curious. This is our world, it’s filled with young innocent girls who are curious and want to fit in with the in crowd. By them being curious this is what happens . “Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.”  In today’s world girls want to be with the cool kids, or wants to that cute boy to notice her. its making little girls at the age of six put on makeup and heels. At that age they are not ready for that yet. Alice is not ready for that. She’s still a young girl who stills cries. She being forced into a situation where she is rushed to be grown up.

(wallace, "Kids as young as 5 concerned about body image", 2015)

Teen Abortion Issues. (n.d.). Retrieved March 23, 2016, from http://teenabortionissues.com/