Read this excerpt from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.

Question

She was rambling on in this way when she reached the wood: it looked very cool and shady. "Well, at any rate it's a great comfort,” she said as she stepped under the trees, "after being so hot, to get into the—into WHAT?” she went on, rather surprised at not being able to think of the word. "I mean to get under the—under the—under THIS, you know!” putting her hand on the trunk of the tree. "What DOES it call itself, I wonder? I do believe it's got no name—why, to be sure it hasn't!”

She stood silent for a minute, thinking: then she suddenly began again. "Then it really HAS happened, after all! And now, who am I? I WILL remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!” But being determined didn't help much, and all she could say, after a great deal of puzzling, was, "L, I KNOW it begins with L!”

Rereading which previous sentence will help explain Alice’s current predicament?

“She very soon came to an open field, with a wood on the other side of it: it looked much darker than the last wood, and Alice felt a LITTLE timid about going into it.”
“This must be the wood,” she said thoughtfully to herself, “where things have no names.”
“Then came another of those melancholy little sighs, and this time the poor Gnat really seemed to have sighed itself away...”
“[S]he made up her mind to go on: ‘for I certainly won’t go BACK,’ she thought to herself, and this was the only way to the Eighth Square

Answer 1

The sentence that will help explain Alice's current predicament is: “This must be the wood,” she said thoughtfully to herself, “where things have no names.”

This line directly relates to Alice's confusion regarding the word for the tree. It indicates that she is in a place where the usual logic and naming conventions do not apply, contributing to her struggle to remember who she is and the inability to identify the tree. This context clarifies why she is perplexed and unable to recall the word she is searching for, emphasizing the nonsensical and whimsical nature of the environment she is navigating.