Answer each question after you read the passage. Lewis Carroll chooses to have Alice recite a rhyme Why? What does this choice say about Carroll's attitude about his characters? "Some people," said Humpty Dumpty, looking away from her as usual, "have no more sense than a baby!” Alice didn't know what to say to this: it wasn't at all like conversation, she thought, as he never said anything to HER; in fact, his last remark was evidently addressed to a tree so she stood and softly repeated to herself: – "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again.” -Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll What could you learn from Carroll's literary choices?
