Through the Looking-Glass

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/through-the-looking-glass

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. Who wrote Through the Looking-Glass?Mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford
2. What is the publication date?December 1871
3. What is the narrative structure?Alice's journey is structured as a chess game, from pawn to queen
4. What happens when Alice steps through the looking-glass?Alice enters a world that is upside down and backwards. In this place, running makes you go backward and moving away brings you closer. It’s a strange, logic‑changing adventure.
5. Why is the story about a chess game?The whole book is framed like a chess match. Alice starts as a white pawn and wants to reach the eighth square to become a queen. It shows how rules and strategy guide progress.

Literary Nonsense: A genre of writing characterized by playful, illogical, and often paradoxical content.
Linguistic Relativism: The idea that the structure of a language affects its speakers' cognition and worldview.
Archetype: A universal, symbolic character or motif that recurs in literature and mythology.