ominant theories. One suggests that it derived from a sign painter in Cheshire County who painted inn signs with grinning lions on them. The other proposes that it came from Cheshire cheese which used to be molded into the form of grinning cats(Gardener,1960).One Roger W. Holmes made the observation that Carroll often amused his audience with logical absurdity in an effort to put things simply. This is evident throughout the Alice books. It appears in one particular passage when the Cheshire Cat attempts to prove his madness:[Alice] “And how do you know you’re mad?”“To Begin with,” said the cat, “a dog’s not. You grant that?”“I suppose so,” said Alice.“Well then” the cat went on, “you see a dog growls when he is angry, and wags his tail when he is pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I‘m angry.”This kind of philosophical nonsense is one of the many forms used in Carroll’s literature(Holmes, 1959).It is my personal feeling that Lewis Carroll’s work has been branded a child’s book, which is a shame, because i think that title discourages many “young adults” from taking an interest in it. When I set out to read this book I was a little scared that it would be exactally like the movie, but it wasn’t. It was very different. The film was good, but without the words on paper, without being able to ponder some of his ingenious riddles and mind games, the story loses some of it’s luster, which can be experienced in full by reading the novel. ...
