How do you know I'm mad?

We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.

Madness. Insanity. The crazy people. Hysteria. I touched up a little bit on madness in my response paper for Alice. My research question will be: "How does the Victorian version of madness play a part with the characters Alice meets?" To simplify, the characters that Alice meets are, as the cheshire cat states, "they're all mad. I'm mad too." Since the victorian version of "mad" is vastly different from our version, are some of the characters actually, "mad?"

By this I mean I will be doing some deep character analysis for three of the characters. The Mad Hatter, Cheshire cat, and the Queen. Were they actually mad? If so, how would the characters have actually reacted to Alice? Would they have been as nice as they were to her, or different? Or, Why were they so nice to Alice if they really were mad?

I hope that this would seem manageable, it feels manageable but I may be putting too much on my plate. Please say so if you feel it is.

Maktub.

I see a lot of inner personal development with our shepherd, he is slowly learning that not all of life's lessons can not be learned from herding sheep. He is constantly reflecting on himself on how he has grown. How if he never trusted in the pygmy, this would not have happened, and he would still be a shepherd. He would not have helped that man at the crystal shop. He is already learning many more things he would never have learned by being a shepherd.

(Personally I think there could be a little less talk about constant self development in the book because it seems to take up a lot of space in it, but it is good for reminding you what all he has learned.)

My other item is that, what is the issue with the constant portrayal of the wind? It has made several points in the book through the main character. Could it be referencing to how he is changing over the course of this book? How the wind is always free, yet always changing? It could be trying to tell him that he is starting to become like the wind, in how that although he did not want change at first, he is learning that change gives him freedom. And although the change may be hard and painful at times, it has always led him to a good direction; giving him freedom. Case in point, when he was robbed and didn't know what to do, he ended up working at a crystal shop, making it well known and through change made it very popular, giving him the money he needed to continue on with his journey.

-David Yarbrough