Throwback Thursday | Alice in Wonderland

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If there's something most of all the people I know about me, is that I love 'Alice in Wonderland', but before you think "Oh look, another hipster/emo who likes Alice story.." let me stop you right there. I admit I didn't started liking the story because of the book, since when I was very little the very first contact I had with this tale was Disney's movie 'Alice in Wonderland' 1951 film, but right after that I knew I loved the idea of talking flowers, and animals and everything being nonsense and just fun and random. Few years later (I'm talking about when I turned 7 or 8 something like that) I got more interest and decided to research about this a little more, but my skills were pretty much useless so the only thing I learned about this story origin was that some man named Lewis Carroll wrote it.. cool huh? Then again a bit later in 2007 my dad came home with this incredibly beautiful book brought from UK (not originally) but printed signed by Mr. Lewis Carroll! I was so exited, (and I still am every time I take that book with my bare hands) so again with new search skills, decided to look more about Lewis, finding out that he wrote the story in the late 1800's, and did this story to call the attention of a quite young lady named Alice Liddell, who he also photographed and has been said he also fell in love with. So after that I realized some of the metaphors and the symbolism that the novel contained and liked it even more now! I placed this commentary with the title of 'Throwback Thursday' because the story has been present my entire life, either getting dressed up as Alice for school plays, Halloween parties or just for fun, to even getting different versions of the books in a large variety languages, playing video games such as 'Alice Madness Returns', or even deciding to get tattooed some of the book quotes. It really became part of me, it marked me.

"And I honestly don't understand why Alice left Wonderland."