While reading Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, I ran into many words I didn’t know. However, amazingly, I was still able to know exactly what was going on. It is as if the tone and essence of this poem is so strong that even without a perfect vocabulary I can still completely understand. Brillig, for example, is the time when you begin boiling things for dinner. Or toves, which are types of seeds. Even the wabe, or the honeycomb, I did not know. There are many more. To be completely honest, I didn’t know 11 out of the first 18 words. Now I could keep going and tell you that a mome is a dull person, or a borogove is a thin shabby bird. But that would be monotonous. The point is I didn’t know what the words meant, but I know what Lewis Carroll was saying. Now how does that work? Its an interesting thing, this poem. It goes to show just how important it is to have a tone, a voice, a flow, of sorts, in your writing. It carries you right through to the ending which you can figure out. Its like riding in a train. You look out the window, everything is blurred. However, you can still make things out enough to know where you are. And as you approach your stop, the ending, things slow down, and they become clear, and you see exactly where you are headed, or where the work is headed. It seems that people love twist endings, not me. There is something perfect and beautiful about a well-written predicable story. Sometimes it’s nicer to be able to look out the window and not have to worry about the train turning off course. When you don’t have to worry about what will happen next, you can appreciate what is happening now. One final way of saying this is, when I know where im going, it is much easier to appreciate how I am getting there. For me, that is where the true beauty lies in literature. Anyone can write a story that jumps al over. This may be exciting but it isn’t what gets your soul. The works that touch me are the ones where I know the ending, but the way in which I get their still leaves me in awe. That is what books are all about.