The negative attitute he was displaying was the result of a wasted day of searching the Isle of Music. Charlie and Violet woke up the next morning and took the first ferry off the Isle of Mushrooms to fulfill Mr. Wonka's assignment to find ingredients for candy. Upon arriving they found that almost all shops there involved music in someway, and there were recording studios all over. They also found the musical plant life relativly quickly, but when they tried to pick an instrument to bring back to Mr. Wonka, they were quickly stopped by a policemen who explained that since the Isle of Music's economy depended on the trade of musical instuments, the picking of musical plants on public or land that you don't own was strictly illegal. Charlie and Violet didn't have any money to buy musical plants with, and since all plants on the Isle of Music were musical, they were out of luck.
Charlie sighed as they headed back to the ferry. He said, "I hate that were going to majorly dissapoint Mr. Wonka. The first day and we've got nothing."
"Not much we can do without any money." Violet looked Charlie's depressed look, and grabbed his hands and pulled him to one of the Islands many public bands playing an upbeat waltz. "Dance with me. I think it might make you feel better."
"I've never danced."
"Neither have I but it can't be that hard." Charlie conceeded, and they both began a very trying dance. It was true that the couple ran into each other a couple of times, but the Charlie did feel a little better at the absurdity of the dance, but Violet said cheerily, "I thought you said you never danced before!"
"I haven't."
But they were inturupted by a yell of "YOU'RE PERFECT!"
An extremly large woman with extremly long black hair and gigantic forearms ran in and grabbed Charlie and Violet by the hands, and even Violet was unable to break free of the womans amazing grip. Luckily she didn't pull them very far. She pulled them into a nearby house and let them go and as Charlie and Violet rubbed their wrists in relief, the woman got on her knees and said, "My name is Veronica Berenhoney, the best dance teacher on the Isle. Please be my students. I've heard you say you two never danced before, but from what I've seen, you're naturals!"
Charlie didn't have time for this. "No really we.."
Veronica pleaded, "Please, you said you had financial difficulties? There is a big dance competition for the island chief. Please listen, the Blackhill school of Dance has used strongarm tactics to scare away all my students. You help me win the competition and boost my reputation, and you can have a giant share of the prize money."
The couple looked at Veronica and Violet said, "Let us think about it."
After the ferry ride back to the Isle of Mushrooms, Charlie and Violet relayed their story to Willy Wonka. He said, "I don't know children. It doesn't sound like a good use of your time."
Charlie said, "Well we could go to the other Islands, but I bet over there we run into the same problem we have here. No money. Unless you figured a way to make sellable candy from these mushrooms?"
Willy said, "I'm afraid not. I was able to extract partial ingredients from the mushroom, but nothing would create a real tasty treat. All we can sell and eat is the food we brought with us to eat in Africa."
Violet asked, "What food is that?"
Willy put on a fearful smile and reached into the steamer trunk and pulled out a box full of sticks of gum. "We worked the kinks out of it."
Violet took one look then began to sweat and said, "Charlie, tomorrow we are going back to learn how to dance. Understand?"