Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was greatly influenced by his father in a life full of curiosity and logic. Having literary works in both the mathematical and logical spectrums, as well as astonishingly creative literary pieces, the Victorian writer decided to use the pen name “Lewis Carroll” as the author of his most outrageous works (Hudson 262). According to Hudson, "Gradually he began to give literary form (though not always in writing) to some of those extravagant indications and impressions which had haunted him since childhood, fantasies which belonged (as we now know) to Wonderland and to The Other Side of the Looking Glass. For the Alice books were to some extent an autobiographical miscellany, woven together with extraordinary skill" (264). Lewis Carroll, being the author of both Through the Looking Glass and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, leaves traces of recurring themes appear throughout the novels curious such as maturity, absurdity and reality. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice wanders open-mindedly through the mysterious land, questioning not the unknown land, but herself. After falling down the rabbit hole, the initiation into the land of her dreams, Alice encounters strange characters who have a hidden logic beneath their absurdity as “Caucaus Racing” to dry out (Magill, “Alice in Wonderland” 62). Upon his arrival, he meets a caterpillar sitting on a mushroom with the ability to make a person shrink or grow, a smiling and talking Cheshire Cat, with the ability to disappear of his own volition, a Mad Hatter, whose riddles have no answers, and a queen who beheads anyone at any opportunity. Through her adventures, Alice has an epip...... middle of paper......, Covington, LA. November 24, 2013. Web.Hudson, Derek. "Lewis Carroll." British writers. Ed. Ian Scott-Kilvert. vol. See New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 261-72. Print.Magill, Frank N., ed. "Alice in Wonderland." Main plots. vol. A. New York: Salem Press, Inc., 1964: 62-62. Print.Magill, Frank N., ed. "Through the Looking Glass." Main plots. vol. Fourteen. New YorkSalem Press, Inc.,1964. 3776-78. Print.Milne, Ira Mark, ed. "Through the Looking Glass." Novels for students. vol. 27. Detroit: Gale, 2008. 275-86. Print.Stanley, Deborah A., ed. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Novels for students. vol. 7.Detroit: Gale, 1999. 17-33. Print.Walker, Stan. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Review." Novels for students. Ed. Debora A. Stanley. vol. 7. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 33-35. Press.