Monday, May 21, 2012

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg. 165-174

The white rabbit calls out "Silence in the Court!" and everyone quiets down.  The rabbit then reads a scroll that says that the queen of hearts baked tarts that someone ate without asking.  They call up the first witness, the mad hatter.  While the mad hatter is explaining what he witnessed, Alice starts to grow taller again.  The queen keeps staring at the hat the hatter has on his head and this makes him nervous.  The mad hatter keeps trying to explain what happened to the court but he is so nervous from the queen staring at him that nothing he says makes sense.  The king thinks that the mad hatter has nothing else to say so he asks him to sit down.

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg. 155-164

The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle get tired of telling their stories so Alice starts telling them what has happened to her ever since she came to Wonderland.  The Mock Turtle starts to sing Alice a song called Turtle Soup.  All of a sudden, the Gryphon takes Alice's hand and starts running.  Alice very confused again asks where they are going.  The Gryphon gives her a vague answer while they can hear the turtle singing behind them.  The chapter ends with them running away, and the next chapter begins with the king and queen sitting on their thrones with everyone gathered in the great hall.  There was trial going on and the king was the judge and there was a table with a plate with tarts on it.  Alice then sees the jury-box filled with various animals and birds.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg. 147-154

The Mock Turtle starts talking about a Lobster-Quadrille, and Alice asks what kind of a dance that is.  The Gryphon says you line up along the seashore and you dance with a lobster.  The turtle and the Gryphon continue to tell Alice the rules of the dance but she gets very confused.  They then decide to show Alice the dance, so they dance around her and sing.  Alice listens carefully to the song the Mock Turtle is singing along with the dance.  Alice says that she has seen lobsters frequently at dinner with crumbs around them.  The turtle goes to sleep while Alice and the Gryphon start talking about shoes.  The Gryphon explains to Alice way shoes are made of in the ocean.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg. 143-148

The Mock Turtles tells Alice and the gryphon that he went to school in the ocean, and everyone called his teacher tortoise.  Alice is about to ask another question when the Turtle tells her not to speak.  The Turtle says the classes they had at his school were French, Music, and washing.  He tells them he couldn't afford to take those classes, so he took the regular course.  He then starts to name the classes he did take, but Alice has never heard of the classes he is talking about.  The Turtle says that everyday school was let out an hour earlier, and on the first day there was ten hours of school.  Then, the Turtle looses it again and starts crying.  The gryphon tries to shake him out of it, so the Turtle can continue to tell the story. 

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg.138-142

The queen wakes the gryphon and tells it to take Alice to see the Mock Turtle.  The gryphon tells Alice that all the people the queen orders to be executed, don't really end up being killed.  When he brings her to the Mock Turtle, the Turtle seems upset.  Alice asks him what is wrong, but he just looks at her.  The Turtle says that no one is allowed to speak until he is finished with his story.  The first words of the Mock Turtle's story are "Once, I was a real turtle".  The Turtle doesn't say anything for a while, he just cries and the gryphon keeps yelling.  The Turtle finally continues to tell his story, and Alice asks questions.

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg.138-

The queen wakes the gryphon and tells it to take Alice to see the Mock Turtle.  The gryphon tells Alice that all the people the queen orders to be executed, don't really end up being killed.  When he brings her to the Mock Turtle, the Turtle seems upset.  Alice asks him what is wrong, but he just looks at her.  The Turtle says that no one is allowed to speak until he is finished with his story.  The first words of the Mock Turtle's story are "Once, I was a real turtle".  The Turtle doesn't say anything for a while, he just cries and the gryphon keeps yelling.  The Turtle finally continues to tell his story, and Alice asks questions.

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg.131-138

The duchess doesn't trust Alice's flamingo, so she takes it from her.  Throughout their conversation, the duchess keeps telling Alice morals that relate to what they are talking about.  All of a sudden, the duchess freezes and Alice doesn't know why, but then she sees the queen standing in front of them.  The Queen quickly orders the duchess to be executed, and then she takes Alice back to the croquet game.  The game continues with the queen sentencing people to death.  They are in the middle of the game when the queen asks Alice, "Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?"  Alice tells her she hasn't, and the queen decides to take her to it.  On their way to see the Mock Turtle, they run into a sleeping gryphon.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg.127-131

Alice, confused by this game, goes to look for the hedgehog.  She finds the hedgehog fighting and she wants to hit one of them with the flamingo, but she notices that she has lost it.  Meanwhile, the king is trying to have the Cheshire cat executed, but the executioner doesn't know how to kill it.  The queen doesn't care how they kill it, she just wants it gone, so she threatens to kill everyone if they don't get rid of the cat.  But the cat starts to slowly disappear and everyone tries to look for it.  The duchess then comes to get her cat and she tells Alice that every story has a moral.  Alice doesn't really like the duchess because she is kind of scary looking but Alice continues to listen to her.  The duchess tells Alice "Oh 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"