Alice in wonderland book summary in about 300-400 words
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Alice is sitting with her sister outdoors when she spies a White Rabbit with a pocket watch. Fascinated by the sight, she follows the rabbit down the hole. She falls for a long time, and finds herself in a long hallway full of doors. There is also a key on the table, which unlocks a tiny door; through this door, she spies a beautiful garden. She longs to get there, but the door is too small. Soon, she finds a drink with a note that asks her to drink it. There is later a cake with a note that tells her to eat; Alice uses both, but she cannot seem to get a handle on things, and is always either too large to get through the door or too small to reach the key.
While she is tiny, she slips and falls into a pool of water. She realizes that this little sea is made of tears she cried while a giant. She swims to shore with a number of animals, most notably a sensitive mouse, but manages to offend everyone by talking about her cat's ability to catch birds and mice. Left alone, she goes on through the wood and runs into the White Rabbit. He mistakes her for his maid and sends her to fetch some things from his house. While in the White Rabbit's home, she drinks another potion and becomes too huge to get out through the door. She eventually finds a little cake which, when eaten, makes her small again.
In the wood again, she comes across a Caterpillar sitting on a mushroom. He gives her some valuable advice, as well as a valuable tool: the two sides of the mushroom, which can make Alice grow larger and smaller as she wishes. The first time she uses them, she stretches her body out tremendously. While stretched out, she pokes her head into the branches of a tree and meets a Pigeon. The Pigeon is convinced that Alice is a serpent, and though Alice tries to reason with her the Pigeon tells her to be off.
Alice gets herself down to normal proportions and continues her trek through the woods. In a clearing she comes across a little house and shrinks herself down enough to get inside. It is the house of the Duchess; the Duchess and the Cook are battling fiercely, and they seem unconcerned about the safety of the baby that the Duchess is nursing. Alice takes the baby with her, but the child turns into a pig and trots off into the woods. Alice next meets the Cheshire cat (who was sitting in the Duchess's house, but said nothing). The Cheshire cat helps her to find her way through the woods, but he warns her that everyone she meets will be mad.
Alice goes to the March Hare's house, where she is treated to a Mad Tea Party. Present are the March Hare, the Hatter, and the Dormouse. Ever since Time stopped working for the Hatter, it has always been six o'clock; it is therefore always teatime. The creatures of the Mad Tea Party are some of the must argumentative in all of Wonderland. Alice leaves them and finds a tree with a door in it: when she looks through the door, she spies the door-lined hallway from the beginning of her adventures. This time, she is prepared, and she manages to get to the lovely garden that she saw earlier. She walks on through, and finds herself in the garden of the Queen of Hearts. There, three gardeners (with bodies shaped like playing cards) are painting the roses red. If the Queen finds out that they planted white roses, she'll have them beheaded. The Queen herself soon arrives, and she does order their execution; Alice helps to hide them in a large flowerpot.
The Queen invites Alice to play croquet, which is a very difficult game in Wonderland, as the balls and mallets are live animals. The game is interrupted by the appearance of the Cheshire cat, whom the King of Hearts immediately dislikes.
The Queen takes Alice to the Gryphon, who in turn takes Alice to the Mock Turtle. The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle tell Alice bizarre stories about their school under the sea. The Mock Turtles sings a melancholy song about turtle soup, and soon afterward the Gryphon drags Alice off to see the trial of the Knave of Hearts.
The Knave of Hearts has been accused of stealing the tarts of the Queen of Hearts, but the evidence against him is very bad. Alice is appalled by the ridiculous proceedings. She also begins to grow larger. She is soon called to the witness stand; by this time she has grown to giant size. She refuses to be intimidated by the bad logic of the court and the bluster of the King and Queen of Hearts. Suddenly, the cards all rise up and attack her, at which point she wakes up. Her adventures in Wonderland have all been a fantastic dream.
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A young girl named Alice is sitting aimlessly by a riverbank when she notices a White Rabbit complaining about being late while wearing a pocket watch and a waistcoat. The startled Alice follows him into a rabbit hole, which leads to a long fall and a safe landing for her. She discovers a key to a small door that leads to a garden inside a room with a table. She finds a bottle with the message "Drink me" while she tries to figure out how to squeeze through the entrance. After reluctantly consuming some of the bottle's contents, Alice is shocked to see that she has shrunk down to the size of the door. She can't get to the key because she left it on the table.
After that, Alice finds a cake and eats it, which makes her incredibly large. The passing White Rabbit flees in a panic, dropping a fan and a pair of gloves while the miserable Alice sobs inconsolably.
The White Rabbit gives Alice the task of retrieving them after mistaking her for his maidservant. After drinking from another bottle she discovers, Alice grows to the point where she becomes trapped inside the house. During the Caterpillar's interrogation, Alice starts to confess her present identity issue, which is made worse by her inability to recall a poem.
In the middle of a bizarre tea party, Alice discovers the Hatter, the March Hare, and a dozing Dormouse. The Hatter claims that time is frozen as payback for attempting to "kill it," and that this is why it is always 6 o'clock in the evening.
Around the table, there is an odd discussion that includes the question, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" After a while, Alice impatiently makes the decision to depart, calling the event "the worst tea party [she] has ever been to." Alice notices a door on one of the trees and enters it to return to the space where her adventure began. The garden turns out to be the croquet court of the Queen of Hearts, whose guard is made out of living playing cards. The Queen demands that the Cheshire Cat be beheaded when all that remains of him is his head, only to learn that this is not possible. Alice asks the Queen to set the Duchess free from prison in order to solve the problem because the cat is hers. The Queen rejects the Duchess when she ponders how she can find morals in everything she encounters by threatening to have her put to death. The King of Hearts conducts the trial, and the jury is made up of various animals Alice has previously met. Alice gradually grows in size and confidence, allowing herself more frequent observations of the absurdity of the proceedings. The Queen finally orders Alice's beheading, but Alice dismisses the Queen's guard as nothing more than a pack of cards. Alice's sister wakes her up from a dream by brushing some leaves away from her face.
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