Lewis Carroll is most famous for
his works Alice in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice
Found There (1871).
He drew much of the inspiration for the characters in his stories from
the people he was acquainted with in real life. Alice, in fact,
is
said to be inspired by his good friend's daughter.
The narrator of the stories in my
Storybook is the extremely wily,
disappearing trickster, the Cheshire Cat. Now, in my Storybook,
he has
his own television show and will be taking us on a ride, showing us the
many oddities and quirky people Alice met on her adventures through
Wonderland. He is still up to his disappearing acts, but the
producers
have gotten an influx of complaints about how confusing and disturbing
it is to see a cat's head without its body, so they've put their feet
down and made him promise to hold the disappearing until the end of the
show.
I'm sure many of you are not
familiar with the Cheshire Cat. He is a
whimsically eccentric character whom Alice meets during her
misadventures in Wonderland. She first meets him (in her attempt
to
navigate her way home) at the duchess's house in her kitchen and
notices his oddly huge grin. (Little did Alice know, the Cheshire
Cat
was with her all along on her adventures; he was simply invisible so
she didn't notice! Good thing for us, because we get to hear
these
fabulous stories!) Alice's next encounter with the Cheshire Cat
was,
to her knowledge, was by a large tree a little ways outside of the
Duchess's house. When Alice asks the Cheshire Cat which way she
should
go, he riddles and teases her, saying that if she doesn't have an
actual destination in mind, it doesn't really matter which way she goes
at all! Alice, already frustrated by the strange people she's met
thus
far in Wonderland, becomes even more angry and confused when the
Cheshire Cat disappears on the spot! You see, the Cheshire Cat
can be
quite frustrating when he is feeling playful because he loves to play
his little mind games! When Alice meets the Cheshire Cat again
while
playing croquet with the Queen, she seems rather pleased because he is
her only "friend" around. This time, however, only his head
appears.
This REALLY angers the Queen and King, who sentence him to a beheading,
the only problem being that the cat had no body to behead!
Be prepared for the utter MADNESS
you will wee in Wonderland! If a disappearing cat isn't enough
for you, just wait and see...
Hello, boys and girls. I am
your host, the Cheshire Cat. I am here
to tell you the rather intriguing tale of Alice and her many adventures
in Wonderland. Please keep in mind, we are allll mad here in
Wonderland. Alice's story starts off in a less than Wonderful
manner.
She was sitting on the bank of a river with her sister, bored out of
her tiny mind with the book her sister was reading. When she
looked
up, the White Rabbit was speeding by her exclaiming "I'm late, I'm
late!" while looking at his oversized pocket watch. This caught
her
attention, so she hurried off after him, just in time to catch him
jumping down his rabbit hole, which was coincadentally just her
size!
Dear dear, I'm getting ahead of myself. You will just have to
read on
to see what Alice encounters in the Rabbit hole!
The next chapter of Alice's little
tale is her pool of tears. My my,
that little girl CAN cry. I guess I would, too, if I became a
giant
and could find no one to help me. Of course, I would
need no help because I am self-sufficient and can make my self
disappear and reappear, but that is beside the point. Being a
giant
for a small frame of
time, her tears were ENORMOUS! You can only imagine her fright
when
she shrank back to her two-foot-tall self, forced to swim in a pool of
her own tears. Here I go again. Please, be patient and wait
for the
right time. I'm sure you'll be quite please when you hear Alice's
many
adventures and misadventures.
In the third section of our adventures with Alice, we meet the
Caterpillar. Beware, he is quite the smoker, so if you don't like
smoke I advise you to watch from a distance. He is one of the
maddest characters in Wonderland, might I add! He is very easily
offended, so when Alice didn't know how to answer his questions, he
found her to be extremely rude! This is a great episode to watch!
Last but not least, we will have the pleasure of meeting with the
extremely MAD Hatter! He is quite possibly the MADDEST character
in Wonderland (obviously infinitesimally more mad than I am,
hahaha). Brace yourselves for this one, because the Mad Hatter
can be quite the confusing character and I often am forced to translate
his stories so that others can understand! You will love his
company, though! Be sure to tune in!!
