Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Foil 1 key example

Chapter 1 - Down the Rabbit-Hole
Explanation and Analysis—Alice & Her Sister:

In Chapter 1, Carroll demonstrates the vast difference between Alice and her sister. Her sister sits quietly on the riverbank, absorbed in her book, while Alice grows impatient with reading. She picks flowers and tries to amuse herself with her imagination. Just as she begins falling into a reverie, she spies the old White Rabbit:

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.