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Alyss From Wonderland Character Analysis

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Most people adapt to different changes in many diverse ways, for example moving into a new town and feeling homesick. Some find change too much and completely stress out while others adapt overtime. A change of scene depends on the diversity and the person themself. Alyss for example went into a whole other dimension at the mere age of 7. How does Alyss’ emotions and characteristic change throughout her journey?
Alyss is quite imaginative she uses this to her advantage. She is like a parading circus with eyes full of amusement, and tricks up her sleeve. While she was at her birthday party Alyss pulled a trick on her former tutor, Bibwit Harte. “...Bibwit put a bit of cake in his mouth… the stuff in his mouth felt like it was moving. Alyss started …show more content…

She is now categorized as common, and has lost all her special quality that made her Alyss from Wonderland. Alyss is transposed, she has changed, and is less imaginative. When she is in the real world she refuses to accept her new family. She doesn’t want to dress like them, walk like them, talk like them, or be like them, but that all changes. ‘“You’re wearing the dress.”, Mrs. Lidell said. The dress she had purchased months before but which Alyss had always refused to wear because she feared it would make her appear common… But that wasn’t it, didn’t count for the change… The change was in the change… The change was in subtler things- The tilt of Alyss’s head, the particular sweeps of her arms, her careful steps forward.” (Beddor 90) She is now a puppet being pulled by the strings of society. Always changing herself when others say so, speaking with a confidence for it to only be knocked down. She is also very observant of her surroundings, this may be of the fact that when she was younger she kept to herself. When she walks by a sidewalk she notices the cracks in the pavement and the way the grass is growing through the cracks. When she was with Prince Leopold he offered to take her in a carriage instead she walked.””You see so much more of the town when you walk-a little curiosity shop or a snatch of garden where you wouldn’t think it possible to have a garden, choked as it is by city things. In a carriage, you hurry past these treasures without noticing them.””(Beddor 97). Here the reader can infer that Alyss is a very sharp-eyed, she is intrigued by all the little things life has to offer her. With being observant comes being practical, she takes everything she sees and processes it to see if it makes sense. When she was being proposed to by Leopold she was seeing if it was even possible to consider it .”She had to be realistic, The marriage would please her

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