White Rabbit Reflection

The theme of Holly Keith's White Rabbit is that, through independence and hard work, your experience becomes the reward. She chooses to ignore the advice to hike in a group and instead journeys alone. After her hike, Keith reflects that "Today the reward was the laughter" whereas on other hikes the rewards are different.  Keith's language made the experience of her hike vivid to her readers. Her emphasis on the rabbit tracks, like Alice following the white rabbit to wonderland, created a sense of adventure. Keith's first line ties back to her final line, which connects the theme of her independence with her allusion to Alice in Wonderland. From "This bunny is not going where I'm going" which shows Keith doesn't directly follow the white rabbit, to "all the tracks were gone, and I could enter wonderland alone" which shows that she finds the most meaning by hiking alone.