Select TWO of the following questions and answer them in 400 words each. In order to receive full credit (maximum five points for each answer), you must include relevant direct quotations from the books.
1 – Lewis Carroll employed several types of transgressive humor in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. List them and give examples. Why should this type of humor appeal to children, especially Victorian children?
2 – What evidence do we find in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that Mark Twain was writing the novel as well for an adult audience?
The books you need are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)