Each chapter talks about a step in an unbelievably real chess game for Alice to be Queen.
Looking Glass House
While Alice wonders how the house in the mirror looks like, she passes through the other side and discovers it in first hand. Meanwhile, she also watches all the chess pieces gain life.
The Garden of Live Flowers
When Alice steps out of the house and manages to reach the garden, she meets the talking flowers. Between the leader Tiger-lilly, the Rose, the Violet and the annoying Daisies, our heroine finally meets the Red Queen, that promises her to become a Queen, if she arrives to the 8th row. Alice then becomes a pawn for the White Queen.
As the first move, Alice decides to get a train to the 4th house, as this is her right, as the first move of the entire game. There, she meets a Gnat and they talk about the different insects that exist in this side of the looking glass: the Rocking-horse-fly, entirely made of wood and that moves swinging between branches; the Snap-dragon-fly, with a body made of plum-pudding, wings of holly leaves and a head being a raisin burning in brandy; and my personal favourite, the Bread-and-Butter-fly, whose wings are slices of bread-and-butter, the body is a crust and the head is a lump of sugar. Delicious!
When Alice arrives to the 4th house, she meets the twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee. After discussing a poem about a walrus and a carpenter, the identical brothers try to convince Alice that she is just another character in the Red King's dream and she will disappear as soon as the King wakes up. After preparing the two brothers to a battle between themselves, Alice moves to the next house.
Wool and Water
The White Queen meets Alice, who helps her find whatever she missed (her mind?). Meanwhile, Alice learns all about the time going backwards. In the mean time, the Queen slowly turns into a Sheep, to whom Alice buys... an egg! (Random?)
The egg grew. It grew to Humpty Dumpty! HD, so proud and obnoxious, is sure that if he falls from the thin wall where he is in, the King will send all his man to pick him up. He likes riddles and helps Alice to understand a poem with some difficult words...
In the end, he just sends her away.
The Lion and the Unicorn
Meanwhile, Alice finds the White King and his two messengers (one to come, one to go).
"Who did you pass on the road?" the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay.
"Nobody," said the Messenger.
"Quite right," said the King; "this young lady saw him, too. So of course Nobody walks slower than you."
"I do my best," the Messenger said in a sullen tone. "I'm sure nobody walks faster than I do!""He can't do that," said the King, "or else he'd have been here first."
The Messenger told the King about the news. The Lion and the Unicorn... They were at it again! Fighting, he meant. Then, they were given, white and brown bread and plum-cake. The plum-cake had to be distributed first, and then cut. These looking-glass cakes, that's how they work!
Another thing worth mention: when the Unicorn asks if Alice, a child, is alive, as he never seen a fabulous monster in flesh before.
Alice starts hearing drum rolls, louder and louder and...
"It's my own invention!"
Alice turns into Red Knight's prisioner! Fortunately, the White Knight arrives to save her. The rules of the battle, she didn't understand. But in the end, apparently, the White Knight won and helps Alice to reach the last house, constantly falling of his horse and enumerating all things that were his own invention. Alice says goodbye to her savior, while jumping to the eighth and last house.
Alice is a Queen! She meets the other two Queens, who, in order to know if they are throwing Alice a party, ask her some arithmetic, language and practical questions. Soon, both Queens fall asleep, while Alice moves and finally arrives to the castle, where the party is going to take place.
Inside the castle, Alice sits between the two other Queens. Alice starts to get upset with the situation and turns to the Red Queen, the one she blames for all the mess and starts to shake her, like a little kitty.
Shaking, Waking, Dreamed it?
Alice shakes the Red Queen, and she gets smaller, fatter and rounder... The Red Queen was a kitty, afterall! Alice wakes up and discovers it was just a dream.
This was a huge post that I really enjoyed writing. As I need to improve my writting skills, I hope the next ones will be as big and better than this one.
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