I like how this detail is included

OK I don't know this school but I don't really think that's right. It could have looked like a bomb, but I don't think teachers should have called the police just because of a clock.

he's smart tho

I like how Chopin chooses to end this. I'm inferring here that the doctors assumed Mrs Mallard was overjoyed to see her husband, when really she was probably far from it. It seems to be a theme in Chopin's works that society never really understands what's going on in the protagonist's mind, and that everyone around her projects traditional values onto her. Society views all marriages as tender and loving, and the doctors would never assume any bad blood in the marriage. Come to think of it, neither would the husband.

I'm a little confused as why Richards would try to keep Mrs Mallard from seeing her husband. Was he trying to protect her from the shock of seeing her presumed to be dead husband living and breathing? There a lot of things that I would have to reread this story to understand. Also, I must reference Rogue One when Krennick sees Galen's wife Lyra and he's like "Look who's back from the dead! It's a miracle!"

It's a calm but somewhat hopeful spring day. These particular weather conditions add a lot of meaning to the story. The air outside is lonely but teeming with springtime rebirth and optimism. Our heroine faces a pleasant loneliness and a feeling of rebirth at the news of her husband's death.

I love this sentence so much. Kate Chopin says a lot of these little things here and there that are so insightful about the way our minds and our feelings work. As she looks out in to the sky, she is overwhelmed by her emotions to the point where her mind is blank, as opposed to consciously thinking or reflecting about something. It's also interesting to me that Chopin always chooses to compare her characters to "normal" people, and pointing the differences in their thought processes or actions.

The King and Queen know absolutely nothing about conducting courtroom trials, and yet they do it anyway. It's interesting how Alice has to be taught Wonderland rules and the characters in Wonderland need to be taught the rules of the real world. It's also interesting how the Wonderland characters have to be taught just as much patience as Alice, as the King wants to skip right ahead to the end of the trial.

Alice has to learn to take care of the baby, which is interesting because it's the first time she's actually shown love or affection in the book besides her cat Dinah. It wasn't her choice to nurse this oddball offspring, but you can tell she is developing a sense of inner morality when she worries what would have happened if she left the baby behind. She does care about what happens to others, and she doesn't always know how to help them, but she will try.

The Frog Footman's character is almost like a caricature of Alice...logical, analytical, without too much consideration of other's feelings. Alice becomes irritated with him because he is unable to help her get anywhere. However, Alice is unable to talk to him because he is so completely aloof to the point of stupid. Sometimes, when we interact with other people, we have to make an effort to interact with them and to respond to them, otherwise we might come off as stupid.

Alice is learning the virtue of patience in this chapter. Normally she would get irritated easily, but as she deals with the Caterpillar she becomes more mature in the ability to deal with irritating situations and difficult people.

This is another example of Alice's pride, as she complains about her situation with no consideration for the Caterpillar. She wants to go back to the normalcy of her original size, but she is insulting the Caterpillar by calling his size "wretched". In a way, this shows Alice is beginning to find her identity as she knows what size she is supposed to be and what size she isn't.

This statement that Alice makes reflects somewhat of a shift in her mindset, because in the first chapter she seems used to out-of-the-ordinary things happening to the point where she expects them to happen. Now she is able to discern "reality" from "fairy-tales". The question is, does she want to stay in this fantasy world and be ordered around by strange creatures while continually changing size, or does she want to return to the real world of school, lessons, and responsibilities?

This comment about the Duchess is somewhat out of place. Despite the Duchess's "speaking of axes, chop off her head!" in chapter 6, it's out of the Duchess's character and power to order executions. However, The Queen of Hearts's character is obsessed with excecutions, and orders them constantly. It's a mystery as to why the rabbit would choose to refer to the Duchess instead of the Queen.

Alice has the interesting habit of being overly considerate of people's feelings without knowing the reason. She knows that the mouse will be offended by the words "cats and dogs", but she doesn't make the connection that cats and dogs eat mice and rats. She's trained by society to be polite, but she doesn't always have a grip on the real world. This is also highlighted by her tail/tale misunderstanding. I feel like Alice is an introvert because she projects her inner thoughts onto the outside world.

"Dry" as in the opposite of wet is contrasted with "dry" as in uninteresting or boring. This is a subtle joke, and it is easily missed, but it highlights Lewis Carroll's use of dry wit.

Is Alice just having a natural memory lapse here, or is something supernatural messing with her forces of recollection here? True, the entire book is very likely a dream in Alice's head, and this explains the natural memory lapse, but I can't help being a little disturbed by the fact that her voice becomes hoarse and strange. This poem is Carroll's parody of "Against Idleness and Mischief" by Isaac Watts. The contrast of the lazy crocodile and the hard-working bumblebee may be revealing of Alice's true nature,as she may not be the disciplined little girl she believes herself to be.

This passage reminds me of something Anne Hathaway said in an interview about Alice trying to figure out who she's not by process of elimination. But her thought process is really weird here. The world around her is different, therefore she must be different. Her hair is still the same, therefore she can't be Ada. Alice still has the same physical appearance, and the same thought processes, so how could she possibly be anyone else? And I like how prideful she is when comparing herself to Mabel. It shows that she gets a lot of self-confidence from trying to be smarter than everyone else.

Animal? Normal. Animal talking? Still normal. Animal talking with human possessions and clothing? Whoa there, horsie. I like Alice's thought progression here. The fact that an animal can speak may not be unusual to a child with a vivid imagination, but as soon as she notices that it behaves like a human and has human possessions, it suddenly becomes unusual. I wonder if there's something deep in our minds that is tuned to the difference between the natural world and the human world of material goods.

From the very beginning of the book we see a picture of Alice as a very curious, observant person. Her gravitation towards books with pictures or conversations reflects the inner child in all of us, as we like things that stimulate and excite our imagination.

He is making a good point here...fear and racism are making it harder for America to make progress. People in America can accomplish great things if we learn to get along.

He is making a good point here...fear and racism are making it harder for America to make progress. People in America can accomplish great things if we learn to get along.

Stuff we're learning about in APUSH. Funny how relevant it is today.

Americusga, the capital city of Howevermanynaracusga.

Do suffering people really have to be hidden from our view for their dignity to be preserved? Maybe it's better that we don't see them so that we don't get disillusioned into thinking we helped them forever.

decieve or trick

Places around the world are not passive objects. They are real people but without the resources that other countries have. Westerners have resources that other people need, but that doesn't make them "saviors".