Reflection of Reality in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The main points of the paper include:

The things Alice goes through physically are things any child goes through (although exaggerated at times, of course.)

Most of the animals that appear in the story are the kinds that would be found in England.

The boating trip led to the names of some of the characters in the stories.

Croquet was a popular but relatively new game at the time.

The Mad Hatter term refers to how people who made hats sometimes went mad from mercury poisoning, the mercury used in the making of the hats.

The parodies of well-known poems were Lewis Carroll mocking the didactic method of learning that the schools used.

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