The+Looking+Glass+Wars+1-9

 The first eight chapters of The Looking Glass Wars are quite interesting. Many different things happen. There are a ton of connections to Alice in Wonderland. For example: Redd in this story is the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland. Prologue © Alyss is talking to Charles Dodgson. © She is excited because someone has finally written her story and she hopes the world will finally take it seriously. © Dodgson has changed everything. For example: he changed Bibwit Harte into the White Rabbit. © She is outraged that he took her history, changed everything, and made it into some joke. © She tells him she never wants to see him again and storms off. Chapters 1-9 © Back in Wonderland it is Alyss’s seventh birthday. © They are watching a parade in which winning inventions get sent to earth. [Like the first parachute.] © <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Malgun Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">We discover that Alyss has an incredibly powerful imagination. [She says the hula hoop would be cooler if there was water spouting out of it… and it happens.] <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent4; msothemeshade: 191; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">© <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Malgun Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Sometimes it scares Queen Genevieve because that is how her sister Redd was before she turned evil. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent4; msothemeshade: 191; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">© <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Malgun Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">King Nolan is off negotiating an alliance in order to protect Wonderland from Redd. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent4; msothemeshade: 191; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">© <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Malgun Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">On the way back he is attacked by Redd’s Cards and they are all murdered. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent4; msothemeshade: 191; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">© <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Malgun Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Alyss and Dodge are in a room dancing when Jack of Diamonds walks in. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent4; msothemeshade: 191; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">© <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Malgun Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">He tries to get Dodge in trouble for punching him. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent4; msothemeshade: 191; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">© <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Malgun Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Alyss and Dodge run off, and actually leave the palace grounds for the first time in her life. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent4; msothemeshade: 191; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">© <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Malgun Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Dodge takes her to the Pool of Tears. He explains that if people fall in it sends them to other worlds… and they are never seen again. It is called the Pool of Tears because of all the mournful tears that have been cried over it. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent4; msothemeshade: 191; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">© <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Malgun Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">When they return to the palace they find a beautiful, smiling cat with a note on its collar. The collar says “Happy birthday Alyss.” <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent4; msothemeshade: 191; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">© <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Malgun Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Alyss loves the cat and takes it inside. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent4; msothemeshade: 191; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">© <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Malgun Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Queen Genevieve is shown some visions from the Blue Caterpillar. She is unaware of her husband’s death and is concerned with these visions. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent4; msothemeshade: 191; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">© <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Malgun Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">It turns out that the Cat is Redd’s head assassin. She starts killing people. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msothemecolor: accent4; msothemeshade: 191; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">© <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #5f497a; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Malgun Gothic','sans-serif'; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Redd shows up at the party and starts screaming, “Off with their heads!”