Lewis Carroll's advanced knowledge and astounding mind helped him create the imaginative story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass using simple puns and analogies that reflect childish nonsense. He used this as a form of intellectual humor wherein the reader is forced to give up his logic and view things from a different perspective.

             A lot of puns were used in the book and these were meant to confuse Alice and humor the reader. One example is when Alice asked the Mouse to tell its history, who replied, "Mine is a long and sad tale" (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll 27) followed by a story in the form of a tail. Another is when the March Hare asked Alice to have tea, where she said, "I've had nothing yet so I can't take more" (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll 55) and the Hare rebutted, "You mean you can't take LESS, it's very easy to take MORE than nothing." (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll 55) In Chapter 2 "The Pool of Tears", Alice and her companions were drenched and had to dry themselves. The Mouse tried to "dry" them by telling a "dry" story about William the Conqueror. When Alice asked Humpty Dumpty, "Why do you sit out here all alone?" (Through the Looking Glass, Carroll 77) she got the answer, "Why, because there's nobody with me!" (Through the Looking Glass, Carroll 77).

             Lewis Carroll gave us these two wonderful stories that seem bizarre and hilarious. However, he made use of puns and humorous dialogues that demonstrate the English language's own share of oddities. We've taken for granted the literal meaning of words and it surprises us when confronted by the fact that ours is a strange world too. The stories have shown us unusual characters that use our own usual language. In the end, we realize that our normal, ordinary language is bizarre and hilarious too - if viewed from a different perspective.