Deep Dive Into Jane Lee

Through the Looking Glass- Lewis Carroll

“Through the Looking Glass” by Lewis Carrol follows Alice as she steps through a mirror into a world where everything is reversed, and time goes by slowly. In this chessboard like realm, she walks through the place, to become a queen. Along the way, she encounters a host of quirky characters, including the Red Queen, the White Queen, and Humpty Dumpty, each presenting unique challenges that blur the lines between reality and nonsense.

A unique thing about this book is that it was inspired by when the author was playing chess. Alice was based off of a pawn (as a pawn can become a queen once it reaches the end of the other place) and he wrote it as he made the pawn go through its way to the end of the board.

One thing that put me off when I was reading this book was the overuse of quirkiness of the book. Although I like unique characteristics in books, I felt as though this book was too illusional for me to fully enjoy. This feeling was probably caused by some of the illustrations (as they were very wacky), and the characters personalities and settings. Often the characters would be weird and full of whimsical character, which I haven’t been used to while reading books. For example, Humpty Dumpty. He was one of the characters in which was a unique character. He was snobbish, and his logic was distorted, as the rest of the setting and the world was, which confused me a lot when I was reading the book.

To me, I think the reason that all these factors seemed to stand out in this book was that it lacked thrill. This may be because of when it was written, but I believe that this book could have been more interesting. Although this book had a lot of good dialogue, it lacked the thrill I usually find in books that interest me. So that made all the quirkiness, and the illusions seem too much for me when I was reading.

If I was the one writing the book, I think I would add some more elements of thrill and excitement into the book, to make it seem livelier and engaging with the reader. Perhaps some cliffhangers, or engaging text to draw readers in.

However, that did not mean that this was a good book. There were plenty of good aspects in the book.

Like the descriptions inside the book, and the beautiful dialogue. I enjoyed reading some parts of it because it truly embraced the uniqueness and the hidden meanings inside the book.

Overall, I thought this was an incredibly interesting book, and I recommend for everyone to read this classic.