Alice in Wonderland
By Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations inside.
What is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations?
The hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid. She considered whether the pleasure of making a daisy chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies. Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that. Alice was not even surprised to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!” When she thought it over afterward, it occurred to her that she should have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural. When the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet. It flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat pocket or a watch to take out of it; burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit hole under the hedge.
Down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
The rabbit hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well.
Adapted from Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, Public domain.
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Questions
Which detail could the reader cite to show that Alice is impulsive?
“Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.”
“Alice was not even surprised to hear the Rabbit say to itself, ‘Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!’”
“Down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.”
“She considered whether the pleasure of making a daisy chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies.”