Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · Character
Dodo
- Minor
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 1
The Dodo carries itself with a solemnity almost too grand for the damp, bedraggled feathers around it. Its earnest manner turns even a muddled gathering into a ceremony, making its quiet authority oddly memorable.
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 1
- Books
- 1
The Dodo comes ashore among the creatures who have swum through Alice’s pool of tears, its feathers wet and draggled. It proposes and conducts the Caucus-race with great seriousness, then presents Alice with a thimble as a prize. Its solemn good manners make it a distinctive, gently comic presence in the group.
Description
The Dodo is a bird with draggled feathers, appearing wet after swimming in the pool of tears. No feather color, eye color, size, or other distinguishing markings are specified. Its most striking quality is a solemn, ceremonious demeanor that persists even in the damp disarray. The Dodo is a bird whose feathers are wet and bedraggled after the pool of tears. The text as supplied gives no specific feather color, height, or eye details, so these should not be invented. Its upright, deliberate manner lends it a dignified presence among the other damp animals.
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The Dodo organizes the Caucus-race and appoints Alice to distribute prizes, then solemnly awards her own thimble back to her.
Story so far
BOOK 1Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Key events
- Book 1
Ch. 2The Pool of TearsAlice grows enormously tall, cries a pool of tears, then shrinks and swims in her own tears with various animals and birds. - Book 1
Ch. 3The Caucus-RaceThe Dodo organizes a nonsensical race with no rules where everyone wins, and Alice distributes prizes including comfits and a thimble.
Appearances
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