Just Alice

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.- From Alice I Have Been

This quote is from the novel Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin. The main character Alice is saying that is she tired of just being known as Alice, the little girl that fell into Wonderland. This how the world only knows her. This quote means a lot to me. For me it means that the world may see you as just one thing. You heard me, just one thing. That one thing maybe true or not, but it can define us for the rest of our lives. I think this true in high school, the students only know each other by the stero-types they give out. Like this person is the band nerd or he's the druggie, or that's the kid who's a punk, or he's mental case. A lot of the classic children's novels have been based on the writer's child or child friend. Alice was a real girl, her name was Alice Liddell before she was Alice in Wonderland, then there was Peter Llewlyn- Davies inspiration for Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up and flew around with a magic pixie. So, people make labels for us and just like Alice we have to learn to live with them for years until we die, just like Alice.