Plot Summary of the text 'Down the Rabbit Hole' by Lewis Caroll

About the author 
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), best known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an 
English author, mathematician, logician, and photographer. While he was a lecturer at Oxford, his most celebrated works are the children's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). 
About the text and outline of the plot:
"Down the Rabbit Hole" is the first chapter of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, where a young, bored Alice follows a waistcoat-wearing, talking White Rabbit down a rabbit hole, beginning her descent into the fantastical, nonsensical world of Wonderland. During her long fall, she sees shelves and pictures on the walls before landing safely, discovering a small door to a garden, and encountering magical "Drink Me" potions and "Eat Me" cakes that cause her to shrink and grow, leading to tears, a pool of her own tears, and a chaotic "Caucus Race" with animals.  
The Setup
Alice is sitting by a riverbank, finding the story her sister is reading boring. 
She sees a peculiar White Rabbit wearing a waistcoat and carrying a pocket watch, complaining that he is late. 
The Fall
Driven by curiosity, Alice follows the Rabbit down a rabbit hole. 
She falls a long distance down a well-like shaft, during which she has time to look at cupboards, shelves, maps, and pictures lining the hole's walls. 
She also finds an empty jar of marmalade on a shelf and puts it back. 
Arrival in a Strange Place
Alice lands softly and follows the White Rabbit, who disappears around a corner. 
She finds herself in a long hall with many locked doors. 
She discovers a small, tiny door behind a curtain but finds the key on a nearby table doesn't fit any of the larger doors. 
The First Encounters with Nonsense 
Alice drinks from a bottle labeled "Drink Me," which causes her to shrink, but she then cannot reach the key.
She eats a cake also labeled "Eat Me," which makes her grow to an enormous size, causing her to cry.
Her tears create a large pool, and she meets various animals and birds with whom she swims to a bank.
A "Caucus Race" is held to dry everyone off, but Alice inadvertently scares the animals away by discussing her cat.

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