The Closing: Alice's Sister's Dream

From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The novel ends with Alice waking from her dream, then her sister imagining Alice grown into a woman who will tell the tale to children.
Chapter 12

'Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister. The dream-frame closes as Alice runs off to tea.

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Chapter 12

The final paragraph imagines Alice as a grown woman 'keeping, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood,' Carroll's wistful elegy for lost innocence.

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