Jose Adan Pena

For Professor Jerome Bump

Journal 2: Alice in Wonderland.

The book Alice in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll is a story about a little girl and her adventures in a dream-like place called wonderland. The main character of the novel is Alice. Throughout the whole book she is faced with conflicts with many of the characters that she encounters in her journey of fantasy. Alice’s main conflict is finding a way to return home and becoming an adult.  We see at the beginning of the book how difficult it is for Alice to manage things by herself. Her only solution to solve her problems is crying and the more she cries the more she drowns in tears. At the end of the book Alice was capable of solving the problems that she faced in Wonderland. Another great aspect of Alice was the way she confronted the trial. Alice becomes wiser and physically stronger that she was able to speak her way out from the ruling of the court. We can apply this concept to the way how people become wiser and stronger as time takes place. As we are growing up we are faced with many obstacles that are sometimes really hard to achieve but as time is taking place we are adapting more to the environment and we become wiser and stronger in making choices. I believe that the author is trying to say to enjoy the years you have as a child because those are the years when your imagination can take you to many dimensions once you reach adulthood it can be really hard to have the same imagination you once had as a child.

The chapter that grab my attention was chapter 2 The Pool of Tears. This title is  related as the second great  principle of wisdom in the Philosophy of Concepts as revealed through the adventures of Alice is that consciousness is a tangible substance  meaning that when the processes of apparent change are completed, everything involved returns to its original state. (Edmund Jones). This concept got my attention because as the author was writing this book he was teaching us philosophical ideas that can be related in real life.