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Alice in Wonderland Throughout the Ages
April 13th, 2010By Chelsea Sanchez
Staff Writer
Who hasn’t wanted to leap down the rabbit hole? Or attend a maddening tea party? Play a game of royally wacked up croquet?
Ever since Lewis Carroll published the fantastic story of a young girl’s journey in a strange place called Wonderland, this story has inspired dozens upon dozens of spin-off films, TV series, and other novels with the same idea. Yet the event that inspired Carroll to write the original novel is surprising in and of itself.
Carroll was a man who stumbled on his words when in the presence of other adults. Yet when asked to tell a story filled with nonsense by the young girl, Alice Liddell, the stutter vanished and he immediately began to tell Alice and her three sisters about a girl that fell down the rabbit hole.
Today we associate Alice in Wonderland with the 2010 Disney movie by Tim Burton. Read the rest of this entry “
