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Lewis Carroll Influences

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Lewis Carroll was born on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire, while a kid Carroll loved playing and creating different games and enjoying them with his family. He was the oldest of 11 children At age 20 he received a studentship at Christ Church and was pronounced a lecturer in mathematics for the same school. Shortly before his 66th birthday, Lewis Carroll caught a severe case of influenza, which led to pneumonia. He died on January 14, 1898. He was shy but loved working with children writing stories and working with them Many things in Lewis Carroll’s life influenced his writing. Some of these things include his mathematical background and logical disposition, interest in and photography of little girls, and a negative association with …show more content…

This is good context on how she put too much pepper on the food and he started sneezing at the mad tea party, Alice inquires about food in a story that the Dormouse is telling.“What did they live on? ”Asked Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking. “They lived on treacle” said the Dormouse… “‘It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,’ said the Queen.” This is another context clue that he likes to write about what he likes to do. He has to write about it just like he writes about the little girls. It was a serious problem that he didn't solve. He once wrote about cookie saying “eat me” in the top of them, “Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words “EAT ME” were beautifully marked in currants. “Well, I’ll eat it,”This shows that Alice had a problem with eating just like Lewis Carroll did. This proves that he wrote what was going on with him but about someone else. It proves that he had a lot of food in the book because he liked to eat he wanted to show it in the …show more content…

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