In Wonderland, it’s okay to be mad. If you’re not crazy or peculiar than you’re not normal. You’re quite the opposite. But what does it mean, what is Carroll saying? Is he telling us that we’re all odd and that’s just average? Carroll is easily one of the people that others can see as different; he is strange on the surface. His audience is mostly children, and of course the adults reading the book are reading it to their kids or just reading it because of the lessons it’s said to hold. So keeping that in mind, I believe Carroll is telling children to be who they are, and if they’re a little “out there” or not accepted as normal, then that’s alright.