Story: Mirror Attic

"Mom, Mom! There is something different about the attic in this house than our old one." said Lillian

Lillian's mom was too busy unloading boxes from the moving truck to listen, so she just nodded her head and kept going.

"The attic is like a mirror, everything on one side of the attic is the same as the other side but flipped! I'm going to climb up there and see what it is like."

Lillian crawled up the narrow stairs at the end of the hall into the dusty attic.

"The last owners left a lot of stuff up here," as she looked around and saw a full attic with toy soldiers on the ground.

She noticed they were moving and quickly got on her hands and knees.

"Wow there is a whole army down here. There is the Sergeant and theres the Corporal. Leading the soldiers around the room. Why can't they hear me? Or see me? Are they just ignoring me?"

Lillian got as close as possible to the soldiers but they still did not see her.

"Help! Help!" Yelled a soldier across the room, being crushed by a truck.

"Oh hell, how did that happen." said the Sergeant.

He started running over to the truck but it was so far for his little legs.

"That's going to take you forever, he's going to be dead by the time you get there!" said Lillian.

Feeling like she needed to help, Lillian picked up the Sergeant and brought him to the distressed soldier.

The Sergeant was trembling. It was not until the soldier cried out again that he shook out of it and helped him from under the truck.

"What just happened. It was like a large gust of wind just flew me across the room. I could not breathe or see it was so fast!" said the Sergeant

"I didn't see sir, I'm just glad you got here in time," said the soldier.

Lillian was watching and listening very intently.

"Should I carry them back? I'm worried that might kill them from shock!"said Lillian

Author's note: My story is based off of the story of Looking Glass House. In the original story Alice enters into the looking glass house to see if there is a fire burning. When she gets into the room she sees chess pieces on scattered on the ground. She notices that they are moving and in distress because the queen's daughter is stuck on the fireplace. Alice helps them get her but moving the king and the queen to their daughter. This frightens them because they cannot see or hear her. I changed the story to a little girl moving into a new house and as she is exploring it she notices army pieces that are alive.

Army Men

Reading A: Looking-Glass

I enjoyed reading the Alice in Wonderland section a couple of weeks ago so I decided to read more about it from the Looking-Glass unit. The story of The Looking Glass House was very interesting. In the first part of the story it was kind of hard to follow what was going on because Alice was talking about so many things at once with and not making much sense of any of it. Once she actually enters the looking glass house is when the story starts to make more sense. She sees the King and Queen and they are much smaller than her and cannot hear or see her. She tries to help them climb up to their daughter but she ends up just frightening them because they were lifted through the air without knowing how. I think I could definitely make a story of my own out of the Looking Glass House. It would be hard for me to mimic the writing style of the original story but I think it would be a nice challenge. I was thinking a way to switch up the story would be for Alice to be smaller and to not see the King and Queen.

Looking Glass House