Alice In Wonderland

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On this ship there are deformed and strange men riding with Montgomery. “He was, I could see, a misshappen man, short, broad and clumsy, with a crooked back, a hairy neck and a head sunk between his shoulders (pg. 10).” This is the first picture we get of the deformities from the island. During this time on the Ipecacuanha, Prendick is weak from exhaustion and in a state of confusion, which adds to our confusion.
It is later in the story, where reality really becomes deformed. First, Prendick is locked out of the inner rooms of the enclosure, because of their “little secrets.” Second, Prendick walks out into the woods to get away from the puma’s crying. It is hear that he gets a good look at one of the deformities for the first time. “Then I saw it was a man, going on all fours like a beast! (pg. 38).” It is this sight that sends Prendick”s imagination wild. “The thicket about me became altered to my imagination. Every shadow became something more than a shadow, ...

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