What does the Caterpillar give Alice?

Answer 1

In the original book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Caterpillar doesn't have a name, he is simply known as the Caterpillar.

In Tim Burton's 2010 movie, he has been named Absolem and is played by Alan Rickman.
He smokes hookah and gives Alice advice.

Answer 2

The Caterpillar tells Alice to keep her temper.

He also tells her that eating from one side of the mushroom will make her grow taller while a bite from the other side will make her grow shorter.

Answer 3

The first thing the Caterpillar says when he meets Alice is:

'Who are you?'

This is a rather impolite thing to say to someone and, in his Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner draws attention to an article by Fred Madden, who writes about Charles Mackay's book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. In it Mackay says that the term "who are you" suddenly popped up in London as a fashionable catch-phrase amongst the young, and was frequently (and rudely) exclaimed to strangers about the town. According to an article by John Clark, Carroll owned a copy of Mackay's book, and may well have heard the phrase used in this way himself whilst visiting London.

source: The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner

Apart from this, the Caterpillar is a very contrary person who contradicts and disagrees with Alice several times:

`I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice, `because I'm not myself, you see.'
`I don't see,' said the Caterpillar.
`I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very politely, `for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.'
`It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.
`Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said Alice; `but when you have to turn into a chrysalis--you will some day, you know--and then after that into a butterfly, I should think you'll feel it a little queer, won't you?'
`Not a bit,' said the Caterpillar.
Alice becomes angry with the Caterpillar's rudeness, so she walks away. He calls he back on the grounds that he has something to say to her, and when she returns it turns out to be:

`Keep your temper,'

After the Caterpillar has asked her to repeat the poem 'You Are Old, Father William' (to test whether she can remember things properly) he actually offers her some useful advice:

`One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.'
`One side of WHAT? The other side of WHAT?' thought Alice to herself.
`Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar

Answer 4

They talk about keeping their temper and recite lessons that Alice has learned.

In Lewis Carroll's Nursery Alice - a simplified version of Alice in wonderland, written for small children - Carroll summarises the conversation between Alice and the Caterpillar in this way:

And what did Alice and the Caterpillar talk about, I wonder ?

Well, Alice told it how very confusing it was, being first one size and then another.

And the Caterpillar asked her if she liked the size she was, just then.

And Alice said she would like to be just a little bit larger---three inches was such a wretched height to be ! (Just mark off three inches on the wall, about the length of your middle finger, and you'll see what size she was.)

And the Caterpillar told her one side of the mushroom would make her grow taller, and the other side would maker her grow shorter.

Answer 5

The Caterpillar sits on a mushroom, smokes a hookah, and treats Alice with contempt. He directs Alice to the magic mushroom that allows her to shrink and grow. The Caterpillar's mushroom also has multiple symbolic meanings. Some readers and critics view the Caterpillar as a sexual threat, its phallic shape a symbol of sexual virility. The Caterpillar's mushroom connects to this symbolic meaning. Alice must master the properties of the mushroom to gain control over her fluctuating size, which represents the bodily frustrations that accompany puberty. Others view the mushroom as a psychedelic hallucinogen that compounds Alice's surreal and distorted perception of Wonderland.

Answer 6

The Caterpillar gives Alice advice on how to grow larger or smaller, and teaches her that eating the mushroom will help her change size.

Answer 7

The caterpillar in Disney's Alice in Wonderland is voiced by Richard Haydn, and the 2010 Tim Burton version was voiced by Alan Rickman

Answer 8

She says that "three inches is such a wretched height to be" which offends the Caterpillar because he's exactly three inches tall.

Answer 9

The caterpillar gave Alice a pipe.

Answer 10

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