The Walrus and the Carpenter, by Eve Skylar
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Through the Looking Glass appears to feature Alice as much more in control of her imagination. That or it appears to be a little tamer than what was depicted in Alice in Wonderland. Nonetheless, Alice finds herself imagining with Dinah her cat about what it would be like to live in a Looking Glass house. She imagines that simply applying a looking glass to everything that she saw would enhance its appearance and meaning in the world, as well as its liveliness (being the case for even inanimate objects).
She then encounters a series of chess pieces that inform her how it is on the world within the looking glass and explain both the wonders and horrors that are present there. Alice manages to read the White King’s memorandum of the Jabborwocky.
After becoming even more giddy with excitement about her new invention (the looking glass), she set out to explore other places and things. The next characters she meets along her way are Tweedledee and Tweedledum. They both engage Alice in logical/verbal confoundry, and despite Alice’s best efforts, do not point her a way out of the woods that she’s stumbled into. However, they then move on to tell her a bit of poetry, specifically: “The Walrus and the Carpenter.”
The Walrus and the Carpenter starts out with the depiction of a split day: one side day, the other side the middle of the night. The walrus and the carpenter walk along the sandy beach looking for prospective resources. They stumble upon a cluster of young oysters, whom they lure to their place of rest. They wind up eating all the oysters, and hardly showing sympathy for the act they had committed.
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