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Chapter 1 - Down the Rabbit-Hole
Explanation and Analysis—The Riverbank:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland begins with a frame story. Alice first appears in Chapter 1 with her sister on the bank of a river in a seemingly normal scene:
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”
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Chapter 12 - Alice's Evidence
Explanation and Analysis—The Riverbank:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland begins with a frame story. Alice first appears in Chapter 1 with her sister on the bank of a river in a seemingly normal scene:
Unlock with LitCharts A+Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”
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