Down the Rabbit Hole – Class 12 English Unit 12 Summary and Exercise Solution

Down the Rabbit Hole – Class 12 English Chapter 12 Explanation, Summary, Ques, Ans

Summary, Notes and Full Exercise Solutions

About the Unit: Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre to which unit 12 of the Class 12 English book belongs. This unit is based on an extract of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, a tale of the imagination, the surreal, and the curious innocence of childhood.

Chapter Summary

The story opens with Alice sitting next to her sister on a riverbank. Tired out by a book that has no pictures or conversation, she begins to get drowsy. While falling asleep, Alice notices a White Rabbit wearing a waistcoat, muttering to itself and checking a pocket watch.

Alice goes after the rabbit and falls down a deep rabbithole. As she falls a long time she sees shelves and maps and a jar marked “Orange Marmalade.” Alice, serene but inquisitive, thinks of her cat Dinah and attempts to keep a handle on what is occurring.

She lands unharmed and her location is now a hallway with locked doors. She finds on a table a gold key and a tiny door that leads into a beautiful garden, but she is too big to fit through it.

She also later stumbles upon a bottle that reads “Drink Me.” She drinks it and shrinks to the size of the door but realizes she forgot the key on the table, which is now out of reach. She comes across a "Eat Me" labeled cake and consumes it in the hope of reaching the key's height. The chapter ends here.

Key Themes and Ideas

• Curiosity: Alice starts out on her journey out of innocent curiosity.
• Imagination: The plot combines the rational with dreamlike occurrences.
• Versus Childhood: The physical changes for Alice are emotional growth for the rest of us.
• Fantasy World: The story is magical realism acting as trip.

Exercise and Grammar Solutions

This chapter contains reading comprehension, grammar, and writing exercises. You will find:

• Easy-to-answer questions in plain English
• Grammar section with correct explanations
• Writing tasks on the theme of the story

Everything is based on the new NEB Syllabus for Class 12 English.