Alice

A winter day, Alice pretended the glass has got all soft like gauze with Kitty, so that they could get through. She began looking about, and noticed that what could be seen from the old room was quite common and uninteresting, but that all the rest was as different as possible. For example, the pictures on the wall next the fire seemed to be all alive, and the very clock on the chimney-piece had got the face of a little old man, and grinned at her. Several of the chessmen downed in the hearth among the cinders. But she was surprised that the chessmen were walking about, two and two. This world’s language she didn’t know. It’s a Looking-Glass book. She held it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again. She got away from this house. First she met the Red Queen. They talk about this Looking-Glass world. This world’s land was marked out just like a large chessboard. She went to the eighth square, she became a queen. A party was held for Queen Alice in this world. But the dreadful confusion was begun. She went on, turning fiercely upon the Red Queen, whom she considered as the cause of all the mischief. She held of the little creature—the Red Queen. She took the Red Queen off the table, and shook her backwards and forwards with all her might. The Red Queen really was a kitten, after all.