White Rabbit Reflection

Holly Keith relates a theme of the importance and rewarding nature of solitude in White Rabbit. She emphasizes this through her repetition of words such as “alone” and “solo hike” throughout her essay. The end of her essay specifically illuminates her appreciation of completing a journey by oneself, in her case hiking in the snow. She shares what she appreciated most from her climb writing, “Today the reward was laughter, the sound of finding myself alone.” While the climb was difficult with a few minor mistakes, she prides herself on being “Self-contained. Self-sufficient.” She was only able to discover the true joys and rewards of climbing a mountain, what she deems, “an imaginative act,” when “all the tracks were gone” and she could “enter the wonderland alone.” Her writing expresses her gratitude for completing the journey alone and the rewards of it.