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/