Turtle and Lobster

Mock turtle soup is made of parts of a calf that is usually discarded. The parts are: the head, tail, hooves, and non-muscular meat. The non- muscular meat is used to imitate turtle meat. The turtle in the pictures on pages 64 and 67 have a head, hooves, and a tail of a calf, which is what is in the soup, but has a body of a turtle. Alice and the Gryphon notice that the turtle is crying so they act concerned for him.

In this story, there is a lot of singing because it was wrote as a children's book. In the Lobster Quadrille, the lobsters were thrown into the air and out into the sea. The Mock Turtle sings about soup because Alice wants him to sing her another song, then the Gryphon told him to sing about Mock Turtle Soup. Alice does not want to be close to the duchess because the duchess is ugly, mean, she puts her chin on Alice's shoulder, and the Queen does not like the duchess.

The rhyme scheme for the song is:

AABBBB
CCBBBB
DDBBBB

To perform the Lobster Quadrille, you must dance, sing, put tails in your mouth, and throw lobsters out into the sea.

Katie Colley, Spencer Goodman, Kayla Faucett