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- Alice and the Gnat discuss the difference between the insects in Alice’s world and Looking-Glass World. He explains that the horsefly becomes a rocking horsefly, the dragonfly becomes a snapdragon fly, and the butterfly becomes a Bread-and-butter-fly.
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Chapter 3: Looking-Glass Insects; from Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there.
Summary. Alice surveys her surroundings, spotting a group of elephants in the distance that seem to be pollinating flowers and making honey. She sets off in the direction of the elephants, but changes her mind and starts heading down the hill in the other direction.
She admits that she's afraid of the insects in her world and offers to share some of their names. The Gnat asks if the insects respond to their names and suggests that there's no use in having a name if a being doesn't respond to it. Alice proposes that the names are useful to other people.
Get everything you need to know about Alice in Through the Looking-Glass. Analysis, related quotes, timeline.
- Chapter 1: Looking-Glass House
- Chapter 2: The Garden of Live Flowers
- Chapter 3: Looking-Glass Insects
- Chapter 4: Tweedledum and Tweedledee
- Chapter 5: Wool and Water
- Chapter 6: Humpty Dumpty
- Chapter 7: The Lion and The Unicorn
- Chapter 8: ‘It’s My Own Invention’
- Chapter 9: Queen Alice
- Chapter 12: Which Dreamed It?
Alice is at home; talking to herself and to her black kitten named Kitty. On the table is a chess game and she tries to make the kitten sit like the Red Queen, but the kitten doesn’t succeed because it won’t fold its arms properly. She decides it should be punished and holds it up to the looking-glass, threatening to put the kitten into the Looking...
Alice tries to reach a hill to see the garden better, but not one path seems to lead to it; she always ends up where she started. Eventually she comes upon a flower-bed. The flowers can talk and they tell her that there’s someone else in the garden. It appears to be the Red Queen, who is now as large as Alice is. They have a conversation and Alice ...
Alice notices that what she thought were bees are in fact elephants. She runs down the hill and crosses the first brook, which takes her to the next square. She suddenly finds herself in a railway carriage with all kinds of creatures and a Guard who asks for the tickets. Alice tries to explain that she hasn’t got a ticket and during the discussion ...
As they are standing very still, Alice forgets they are alive and they reprimand her for not knowing the right manners for a visit. When they shake hands they all start dancing. Alice wants to know which road she should take to leave the forest, but they repeat ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’ to her. Then they take her to the sleeping Red King and t...
Alice catches the shawl and sees the White Queen running through the wood. As she is very untidy, Alice helps her to put on her shawl again and brushes her hair. The Queen wants to hire her as a lady’s maid, but she refuses. The White Queen explains the advantages of living backwards, meaning that you remember things before they actually happen. Sh...
As Alice approaches, the egg gets larger and more human, and eventually turns into Humpty Dumpty, who is sitting on a very narrow wall. She offends him by calling him an egg and he tells her that her name doesn’t fit her shape. Alice is concerned about him falling from the wall, but Humpty Dumpty explains that the King promised him to send all his ...
The next moments several thousand soldiers and horses come running out of the wood. They all keep stumbling and tripping over each other. When Alice reaches an open place, she sees the White King with his memorandum book. He tells her that he sent all his men and horses, except for those that are wanted in the game and his two messengers. Haigha, o...
When the noise has died away a Red Knight arrives on his horse. He shouts “Check!” takes Alice prisoner and tumbles off his horse. Then a White Knight arrives to rescue her and he also falls off his horse. They start a fight during which they constantly keep falling off their horses. The White Knight wins and tells her that he is here to guide her ...
Alice realises that she now is a queen. The White Queen and Red Queen invite her to her own dinner-party and start examining her with nonsensical questions and giving her lessons in manners. The Queens get tired and fall asleep in Alice’s lap. Suddenly they disappear and Alice is standing in front of a doorway marked ‘Queen Alice’. She asks a Frog ...
Alice realises that she has dreamt the whole thing and that she is now back in the drawing room, holding her black kitten. She walks to the table, takes the chess-piece of the Red Queen and tries to make the kitten confess that it turned into her. She wonders what it was that Dinah and the white kitten turned into. She asks Kitty who it was that dr...
Jun 18, 2023 · Chapter 3: "Looking-Glass Insects" Alice discovers a group of insects who have unusual ways of thinking and communicating. Her interaction with the Gnat leaves her feeling perplexed yet delighted by the various perspectives the world of insects reveals.
Uneven, less-violent sequel has girl-empowerment theme. Read Common Sense Media's Alice Through the Looking Glass review, age rating, and parents guide.
