JABBERWOCKY Lewis Carroll (from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872) `Twas brillig,

and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. describing creature to son "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" and planning quest He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought -So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! Son striking beast down and bringing back his head to prove his victory One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. slain and celebrate "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. Environment

Father

Son entering forest in determination

Arrival of creature and description

Father asks has the creature been

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; first verse All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Repetition of

brillig Bryllyg (derived from the verb to bryl or broil). The time of broiling dinner, i.e., the close of the afternoon. slithy Slythy (compounded of slimy and lithe). Smooth and active. tove Tove, a species of badger. They had smooth white hair, long hind legs, and short horns like a stag; lived chiefly on cheese. "Toves" should be pronounced to rhyme with "groves". gyre Gyre, verb (derived from gyaour or giaour, 'a dog'). To scratch like a dog. gimble Gymble (whence gimblet). To screw out holes in anything. wabe Wabe (derived from the verb to swab or soak). The side of a hill (from its being soaked by the rain.) mimsy Mimsy (whence mimserable and miserable.) Unhappy. borogoves Borogove'o'. An extinct kind of parrot. They had no wings, beaks turned up, and made their nests under sundails; lived on veal. The first 'o' in 'borogoves' is pronounced like the 'o' in 'worry'. The word is commonly mispronounced as "borogroves". . . and this misspelling even appears in some American editions of the book. JubJub bird a dangerious creature bird like frumious is a combination of "fuming and furious" tum-tum was a common phase in Carrols time. It is the sound of a monotonously strummed stringed instrument. uffish Carrol wrote a child friend that "uffish" suggested to him "a state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner roughish, and the temper huffish." snicker-snack "snickersnee" means to fight with a knife.

galumphing a combination of "gallop" and "triumphant". beamish a variant of "beaming" callooh Two forms of the greek word "kalos" are pronounced "callooh" and "callay". Kalos means "beautiful" or "good". chortled a combination of "chuckle and snort". mome, our expert thinks, means they lost their way. rath, again according to Humpty, is a sort of green pig. outgrabe is something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle. bandersnatch an imaginary wild animal of fierce disposition. vorpal deadly manxome fearsome whiffling 1. to blow in light or shifting gusts or puffs, as the wind; veer or toss about irregularly. 2. to shift about; vacillate; be fickle. frabjous fabulous and joyful; delightful

Characters Maximum of three May get away with two: The son and Jabberwocky

Environment Forest Trees described as instrument like

Narration Voice over of original text?

Updated words ? Maybe none of the words but actual dialogue?

Directions so far Futuristic/ more fantasy based A creation made by man, now man has been sent to destroy it, a connection to man-made idea Creature looks demonic so could have a religious connection e.g. a person killing own demons Creature (natural or material made) vs. human or good creature (natural or material made)

Target Audience

Aim for older teens young adults