For example, the Mad Hatter asks Alice the complicated riddle: "Why does a raven look like a desk?" » (Carroll 173). Alice cannot determine the answer to the riddle, and when she asks the Mad Hatter what the solution is, the Mad Hatter tells Alice that he has no idea. Alice has difficulty accepting this answer because she thinks that everything has a solution. This situation teaches Alice that life does not always have predictable and logical solutions. She begins to realize that despite the unusual nature of certain unanswerable situations, like the riddle, they are part of life and she must learn to adapt to them. This means that Alice's first experience in understanding unpredictable events may be beyond her control and she must adapt to dealing with people she is not used to; this particularly prepares her for the second time this happens during her meeting with the Queen of