Growing up, I hated Alice in Wonderland. I mean, I really hated it. I thought it was trippy and scary and all about drugs, and I refused to watch it. This probably had something to do with the fact that I watched the live action version when I was very young (it's a creepy, very trippy version).
Needless to say, when I decided to write a comparison paper using multiple versions of Alice in Wonderland (Book, movies, TV series), I surprised myself. I found that I actually loved the story, and that there was so much more to it than I'd realized. I found myself becoming more and more enthralled and obsessed, even, with Alice and her adventures. Then, Alice began to follow me. She would poke her little blonde head through the pages of my books or in various scenes in movies or television shows I was watching. She even managed to creep into some of my music. I realized that somehow, she was everywhere, and that this simple story that Lewis Carroll had written so long ago, was still very prevalent in today's society.
For my capstone, I want to look a little bit more deeply into this. I want to figure out why Alice is so popular - what is it that makes her so interesting? Why are there so many versions of this story? Also, I want to write my own version, but with a darker spin. In my story, Alice isn't napping in a meadow while her sister reads a boring book with no pictures, she's in a mental institution, and her mind is collapsing. And Alice isn't going to wake up at the end of her adventure with the realization that "You're all just a bunch of cards!" No, Alice is stuck in Wonderland, and it's collapsing around her, just like her mind, but she can't get out.
So anyway. That's my capstone. We'll see how this goes.
Great start! I like how the different images and stories blend together in your memory. To some extent this could kind of be an unfolding of your recall of how "Alice" appeared in multiple medias, but regardless of how it unfolds, I'd suggest that you document a few specifics/details of what you describe above about how she appears in other movies, books and music. In other words, a lot of the important stuff happens in the details. In your next post try to pull some of those out into specific descriptions.
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