Chapter 3

Haven Craig

                                                                 Jordan Hinmon

Chapter 3 Thoughts on Alice

Connections: Alice during this chapter seems very lost as everyone starts to talk after being stranded and wet, and with the caucus race it makes sense. For example, this article

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/01/politics/iowa-caucuses-2016-highlights/   is talking about this year’s 2016 caucus race, and with many people not knowing about the caucus race unless you keep up with politics, I can see how Alice is lost when the Dodo bring up the caucus race, it makes perfect sense also how the Dodo makes this caucus race seem very meaningless, which is exactly how the author himself feels. Which is how this article connects with Alice for an example to show that the caucus race isn't as simple as people think. Also, in Alice’s timeline learning isn't something she would be doing, she would be doing housework or taking care of kids in her timeline.

I connected this to people at school and the caucus race because, at school people just go to socialize and they end up failing, school is really getting your education. This connects to Alice because when the caucus race was going on it was pointless they continue to run around until they got dry but they never stayed dry it was just a repeated cycle, like school once you start to not do your work you will have a continued cycle of not completing your work at school. People just come to socialize and that is just pointless.   

To summarize, Alice is washed up on a small shore with a small group of strange talking animals which include the following: a Dodo, a mouse, a duck, an eaglet, and much more. The small group was talking over ways to help themselves warm up after their trek in the water, and mouse drolled on about some weird English story thinking it would warm them up, but it didn't work. So, the Dodo brought a thing called the caucus race where the animals ran around until they warmed up, well this wasn't a really good idea because every time they got dry or warm. They would get wet all over again. This process was pointless because, they would continue to get wet. The author was showing that the caucus race is pointless by showing the animals to run around the rock until they got wet but they never stayed dry.  

Explains a caucus race very well to the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2btY4F1y6hE

Caucus race meme:

Citation: Iowa caucus results: Ted Cruz wins, Hillary Clinton declares victory.

            H. (2014). Too funny! - Crazy mouse running in circles ;-).