When Alice first sees a white rabbit dash past her in a terrible hurry, she doesn't think twice about it. Even  when the rabbit begins to talk, exclaiming to itself how late it is, Alice doesn't think there is anything too remarkable about it. However, when she sees that the rabbit is actually wearing a little coat, and that from the coat it has taken a watch, Alice is forced to admit that things have taken a remarkable turn.

 Up jumps Alice, after the rabbit she runs, and when the creature disappears down a large rabbit hole, the little girl leaps right after it, without a thought as to how she will get back out. The hole turns into a well, and the well  is so long that as Alice is falling, she thinks that when her fall comes to an end, she will find herself on the other side of the world, where people walk about on their heads. Alice tumbles down the well for such a long time, in fact, that she begins to fall asleep, when she lands with a thump at the bottom, just in time to see the white rabbit that started everything dash around a corner, still anxious about the time. 

  "Curiouser and curiouser," exclaims Alice as she takes off after the muttering animal, but she doesn't know just how curious her life is about to get. Indeed, she reflects, things seemed perfectly normal yesterday, but today Alice finds herself in another world--Wonderland. She will shrink to half the size of a mouse and grow taller than the trees, swim lazily in an ocean of her own tears, take tea with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare, and argue with a smoking caterpillar, while she tries to make her way through a world that makes less and less sense the more one sees of it.