In Anne's case, her dreams are waking and deliberate, and serve as a means of survival in, what has been up until the story begins, an intolerable sequence of events. Alice, on the other hand, who lives a rather gifted life, "falls" into her dream experience without warning. She is subjected to a sequence of bizarre scenes and characters, all of which she has taken from her waking life, and stirred with her imagination in a sleep state.

Both Lewis Carroll, creator of "Alice," and LM Montgomery, author of "Anne, " lived during a time when a good child was one who strictly adhered to the rules of the home and chu

Her self-image poor - Anne feels she is ugly and hates her own red hair; because of her background, she doesn't feel worthy being just who she is, but invents alternate personalities for herself. She discusses everything with these "friends," and thus has a way to bounce her thoughts and ideas off of someone. Anne, who has not felt that she belonged anywhere, also has a tendency to bestow a romantic name on everything around her, such as the "Lake of Shining Waters," and the cherry tree called "Snow Queen." By naming the elements in nature, her daydreams give her a sense of belonging to the world around her. Moreover, Anne is obsessed with daydreams about her surroundings, attributing a personified quality to everything. She imagines being the wind, or a bee living in an apple blossom; she is in love with every star, bush and stream, in a state of "rapture" most of the time. Today, this girl would be promptly taken in for psychological counseling, but this dramatic daydreaming, for her, is a way to self-medicate her pain.

Both characters seem to have well-above average vocabularies and a special affinity for words. Alice encounters quite a bit of play on words in her dream, making her question her own grasp of them. Anne, on the other hand, uses words like "magnificent," "scrumptious" and "dreadful," and seeks out romantic sounding words to add to her incessant chattering. In childhood, words play a huge role in development of viewpoints and generally of the personality. Both authors are aware that the world of words is one of the primary portals in the process of a child's maturity.

Like Anne, Alice takes on the persona of different people and talks to herself:

rch. Well-behaved children, especially girls, were not allowed to roughhouse or freely express themselves. Manners and etiquette were primary significant pieces of the educational process. Lewis Carroll, (actually Charles Dodgson) born in 1832, was fond of children, and was not prone to "put away childish things"(Carroll v). An Oxford math professor, he spent his free time with children, particularly girls, telling stories and taking photographs of them. A favorite of Carroll's, Alice Liddell, was part of a wealthy, proper family, as reflected in her character in both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. What may lie behind Carroll's fantasy written for Alice, is the rather boring, staid and restrained life she lives, being a child of privilege, as reflected in Through the Looking Glass.

Although children who read these two stories may gain a subconscious opening or lesson from them, in today's literary world I believe they would be seen on their face as somewhat foolish. Both stories see

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