Fantasy writers have different ways of introducing to the reader
the world where the story takes place. In Though the Looking-
Glass, Lewis Carroll employs an interesting technique, which
seamlessly takes the main character, Alice, to another world. In
addition, while changing the setting, Carroll manages to show
the reader much of Alice's character. "Kitty, dear, let's
pretend — "And here I wish I could tell you half the things
Alice used to say, beginning with her favourite phrase "Let's
pretend." She had had quite a long argument with her sister only
the day before — all because Alice had begun with "Let's pretend
we're kings and queens"; and her sister, who liked being very
exact, had argued that they couldn't because there were only two
of them.  Sitting by herself, "talking more to herself than the
kitten" (129), Alice lets her imagination run free. She dreams
about trees which dance when the summer comes. Having once told
her nurse, "let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyaena, and you're a
bone!" (130), Ali