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Jabberwocky Essay

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The “Jabberwocky” is a fictitious poem by Lewis Carroll about a father who warns his son of a creature in the woods called the Jabberwocky. The father says that the creature has “The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!” (Carroll 5). This is to say that the creature is fearsome and not to be engaged. The father also warms his son of other creatures called the Jubjub Bird and the “frumious Bandersnatch” (Carroll 7). Ignoring his fathers warning, the son goes out into the woods in search of these mysterious creatures. Taking a sword with his he soon starts resting on a tree and starts to think. While he is thinking, the Jabberwocky appeared. The battle between the creature and son is a quick exchange of blows from the sons sword repeatedly

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