LITERATURE ANALYSIS

I would like to apologize to Dr. Preston for getting this done so late. It's been on my to do list for a month now and I feel absolutely horrible! So I don't know if this is even acceptable but I heard a rumor we can do a modern book, if it's relatable to our senior project, which is great news because mine is! Never judge a book by a cover is so LAME. So of course I always did until recently, I picked up a twisted version of Alice in Wonderland (and no it's not because of my little crush on the Mad Hatter! Thanks for that Johnny Depp!) Anyway it's a gothic tale, like most fairytales until Disney ruined it. The main character is perceived as crazy because she sees things normal humans can't, which led to discrimination towards her and her friends :-)
1) So my book is called Splintered, it's a dark version of Alice in Wonderland. The protagonists' name is Alyssa and she's Alices' great-great-great granddaughter. Her family is known as "insane" because they see/talk to things other people can't. When she was younger, it was believed her mom attacked her and was thus put into a mental institution. When she hit 16 she began to experience the symptoms her family had experienced and she thought she was going crazy. One day she visits her mom and realizes she can actually communicate with her and finds out her mom isn't crazy at all but cursed. Her whole family is cursed and the only way to reverse it is by going down the rabbit hole. Alyssa finds the hole and ends up taking her best friend down with her, of course it's a boy whose tragically in love with her and vice versa. Although she's not quite sure she is COMPLETELY in love with him because she recognizes this voice that talks to her in her head. They travel into the hole and face trials and finally the find the voice. She ends up finding out it's her childhood best friend, whose also in love with her and she finds herself super attracted to him also. She tries to reverse the curse only to find out she's not cursed at all but was tricked by her best friend into coming back to him so that he can place her on the throne and save himself. She's heartbroken but in the end he sacrifices himself and she ends up with her human boyfriend (: BUT ALAS HE COMES BACK AND THAT'S WHY IT NEEDS TO BE SPRING BREAK SO I CAN READ THE NEXT ONE.
2) The theme of this novel is probably, don't be so naive to believe everything tells you.
3) The authors tone was definitely confusion. Alyssa was extremely confused throughout the book. She faced problems physically and mentally. Every time you thought you got a solution to one mystery, it ended up being some type of lie, so you questioned every decision that happened.
4)  Gothic tale- the setting, writing, imagery was very dark, mentally and violently.
Imagery- to describe a fantasy world takes a lot of description and she did that wonderfully.
Allusion- it obviously referenced the original Alice in Wonderland.
Irony- throughout the book she was referenced to as "mad" which she ended up being completely normal.
Ambiguity- everything that happened seemed to leave you with a question and you never got answers until you least expected them
Apologia- Morphesus (childhood friend) was like a definition of apologia, he was constantly apologizing in small ways because he knew he wasn't doing Alyssa right.
ASSUMPTION- OH MY GOSH HONESTLY THIS WHOLE BOOK WAS AN ASSUMPTION, YOU WERE GIVEN MANY STORIES WHICH ENDED UP BEING COMPLETE LIES UNTIL THE END. EXPLANATIONS ARE NEVER TRUE IN THIS BOOK.
Colloquialism- they used the funny way of talking that the characters did in the Disney movie, they used British slang, modern slang.
Dialectics- many, many of these because Alyssa was constantly trying to get answers that she never got with complete honesty.
Elegy- there was an elegy when Alyssa had to visit a graveyard and these two sisters live there and sing to the dead souls.
1) Direct characterization- Alyssa seemed like a bada**queen through her actions but through Indirect characterization you could tell she was struggling and she was confused on what she wanted.
2) I don't think the authors' syntax changed much when talking about a character, just her diction or tone.
3) Alyssa was definitely dynamic, she went in trying to save her family and left embracing her destiny of becoming the new Red Queen.
4) I WOULD LIKE TO DEDICATE THIS QUESTION TO THE AUTHORS' CHARACTERIZATION BECAUSE OHM YGOD IT WAS GREAT! it was one of those books that makes you hate your normal life and make it feels so bored but then you also leave questioning if your life is lie??? where's my rabbit hole??? she created these characters perfectly and I'm so excited to read the next book which will be from Morpheus' POV :D