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How To Write An Essay About Recovery

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Lewis Carroll does an excellent job in creating a secondary world in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland that helps us escape from our primary world. This is a necessity for fantasy, according to Tolkien, to create a secondary world that helps us make a relation to reality. There are three relations to reality and they include recovery, consolation and escapism. Tolkien explains each of these in his essay “On Fairy Stories”. In this essay, I will mainly be focusing on recovery. Many critics would not consider Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for they believe it does not offer any recovery. Sarah Gilead’s essay “Closure in Children’s Literature” disagrees with these critics and through her analysis of Carroll’s work confirms that
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