قصة الكتاب :
“A Game of Fives” by Lewis Carroll was published in 1869 in Phantasmagoria and Other Poems. It is indicative of Lewis Carroll’s playful, clever style. Carroll uses precise diction suggestive of a sing-song nursery rhyme in order to create a satirical commentary on mundane life. He utilizes the ages of each sister as a clear mark of passage in order to denote their marital and societal status and how the attitude of the girls shifts over time. The good-humored narrator shifts from third person in the first 14 lines of the poem—which is evocative of a sonnet—to first person in the last stanza. Carroll uses precise, easily understood diction throughout the poem in order to satirize the immature, childlike attitude of the girls and the narrator.