Alice followed the rabbit until she came to a hole. She saw the rabbit jump down the hole and contemplated going after him or not. She looked back at her sister reading on the hillside and thought to herself, "There is no way I am going back to be that bored." So she got down on her hands and knees and peered into the rabbit hole to see what she could find.
The hole was very dark so she squinted to see if she could see a clearer picture. She still couldn't see anything so she leaned in to see if that would clear up her vision. Once she started to lean the ground started to crumble out from under her. She started to push back to leave the hole but the ground just started to crumble more. Her hands slipped out from under her and she fell into the hole.
Alice let out a piercing scream, then another, then another. She was frantically yelling due to the fear that she would splat on the ground. She just kept screaming and falling until she realized that there was no splat. Her screams eventually wavered, then stopped. She realized she had been falling for at least five minutes and there was no use in wasting her breath. She kept falling and falling, so much so that she became quite bored. While she was falling she noticed that the walls of the hole had changed from dirt to bookshelves. The Bookshelves weren't flying past either, they were just slowly moving upwards. It was like they were falling with Alice.
Alice had been falling forever, she had read books, watched the shelves fly by, even contemplated how much of a fall she had to go. All of this mundane activity had made her quite sleepy. So sleepy in fact that she started to contemplate taking a nap. She slowly started to shut her eyes and right before she fell out of consciousness, she plopped down on a pile of leaves, unscathed.
Authors Note: This is a story of Alice falling down the rabbit hole. There were little to no changes to the original story, just a retelling in my own words.
Bibliography: This story is part of the Alice in Wonderland unit. Story source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865).
Hi Ryan,
ReplyDeleteGood job on the story! I haven't read the original yet but hopefully I will one day! So I guess it turned out to be a dream? The story reminds me of inception which is one of my favorite movies. I don't think there's any way I could take a nap in the middle of a fall. It would have to be a really long fall!
Ryan,
ReplyDeleteI thought you did a great job with this retelling of Alice falling down the rabbit-hole. You used description very well! Especially when you were talking about the books. I felt like I was there watching the books fall and float all around me. I have read a bunch of different renditions of Alice stories and I really liked this one. Good job!
Hi Ryan! I liked your retelling of this story. I too chose to read and write about Alice in Wonderland! The movie was one of my favorites when I was a kid and because of that, I thought it would be so much fun to read what the classic story was like! I think you did a great job retelling it in your own voice, from your own perspective. Even though it is a simple approach, I really think it did this story justice. Great post!
ReplyDeleteHi Ryan!
ReplyDeleteThis is really cool! I never would thought to write, or rewrite, an entire story that is just about Alice falling down the rabbit hole. And while I also wondered when Alice was going to meet the ground, I was captivated the entire time. Your use of detail in your writing was great! I almost felt as though I was falling with Alice. Great story!
Ryan,
ReplyDeleteI loved reading your story buddy. It was so interesting and intriguing. I also wrote about Alice in Wonderland, but my story was much different than yours. I thought you included a lot of detail and you did a great job!!