the "WICKED YEARS"!!!!!

SinceWicked was first published in 1995, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire's fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined.

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West, we heard only her side of the story. But Gregory Maguire make us discover the story of the witch so that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to become the Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who changes all our notions about the nature of good and evil.

Ten years after the publication of Wicked, Gregory Maguire returns to the land of Oz to follow the story of Liir, the Dorothy accidently killed the Witch with a water bucket, thinking that she was helping her from burning alive.
The young man Liir is discovered in a gully. He is only one part of the world that Elphaba left behind. As a boy hardly in his teens, he is asked to help the needy in ways in which he may be unskilled. Is he Elphaba’s son? Has he power of his own? Can he liberate Princess Nastoya into a dignified death? Can he locate his supposed half-sister, Nor, last seen in shackles under the Wizard’s protection? Can he survive in an Oz little improved since the death of the Wicked Witch of the West? Can he learn to fly?
In Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire suggests that the magic we locate in distant, improbable places like Oz is no greater than the magic inherent in any hard life lived fully, son of a witch or no.

While civil war looms in Oz, a oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before her final hour, an enigmatic figure known as Brrr—the Cowardly Lion—arrives searching for information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West. As payment, Yackle, who hovered on the sidelines of Elphaba's life, demands some answers of her own.
Brrr surrenders his story to the ailing maunt: Seeking to redress an early mistake, he trudges through a swamp of ghosts, becomes implicated in a massacre of trolls, and falls in love with a forbidding Cat princess. In the wake of laws that oppress talking Animals, he avoids a jail sentence by agreeing to serve as a lackey to the war-mongering Emperor of Oz.
What does the Lion know of the Witch's boy, Liir? What can Yackle reveal about the auguries of the Clock of the Time Dragon? And what of the Grimmerie, the magic book that vanished as quickly as Elphaba? Is destiny ever arbitrary?

At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire's new novel is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.

Wicked in Broadway

Wicked is a broadway musical, with songs and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. The story is based on the novel.
The plot of the first act is set before Dorothy's arrival from Kansas, and include several references to The Wizard of Oz.

The musical premiered at San Francisco's Curran Theatre in May 2003. In October, 2003, the show moved to Broadway's Theatre. It was produced by Universal Pictures and Directed by Joe Mantello, with musical staging by Wayne Cilento. It's original stars were Idina Menzel as Elphaba, Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda, and Joel Grey as the wizard.

The Broadway production's success spawned productions in Chicago, Los Angeles, London's West End, Tokyo, Melbourne, Sydney, Stuttgart, and San Francisco, as well as two North American tours that have visited over 30 cities in Canada and the United States.

Wicked has broken box office records around the world, holding weekly-gross-takings records in New-York, Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis, and London, and the record for biggest opening in the West End. The show was also nominated for 2004 Tony Awards, including Best Actress, Scenic Design and Costume Design. It also won six Drama Desk Awards out of eleven nominations and at the 2010 Olivier Awards, Wicked won the Audience Award for Most Popular Show.

With a $14 million capitalization, the Broadway production earned back it's initial investment by December 21, 2004. In it's first year, it grossed more than $56 million.

For the week ending November 29, 2009 Wicked became the first Broadway show in history to gross over $2 millin for one week of performances, with a gross of$2,086,135.

The main characters

• Elphaba is the illegitimate daughter of Melena and a travelling salesman(the wizard of Oz). She does not discover her true father identity until later in her life, and grows up believing that her mother's husband is her father even if the color of her skin was really uncommon.

• Melena is the mother of Elphaba, Nessarose and Shell. She's married to Frexspar; however, Elphaba is conceived by the wizard of Oz, and Nessarose, prossibly, by the Quadling turtle heart.Even if she acts like a woman with no honor and self-respect, Elphaba discribes her as a: giddy, alcoholic, imaginative, uncertain, desperate, brave, supportive woman; that make us see that she might be a good person when she wants to.

• Frexspar, Melena's husband is the seventh son of a seventh son of his family to become a minister. He's a unionist minister and missionary, and frequently leaves Melena along for long periods of time while he is off preaching; That explains why she feels lonely and neglected, and is often unfaithful to him.

• Glinda is the most powerful witch of Oz, she went to the same school as Elphaba and was her best friend.

• Nessarose is the spoiled, beautiful but handicaped young sister of Elphaba who has to put her needs before her sister's. She's known for her cruel ways and use of sorcery to control her subject. she died when Dorothy's house fell on her.

• Boq is a munchkin who attends Shiz University wit Elphaba and Galinda and was their best friends.

• Fiyero is a Vinkus prince who attends the same university as Elphaba, he's dark-skinned, and covered with blue, diamond shaped tattoos and eventually falls in love with Elphaba. He's been killed by the Wizard.

Summary #9

HEY EVERYONE! Ok, so I left off at page 362! AND IN THIS POST I WILL (HOPEFULLY) FINISH THE ENTIRE BOOK!!! YESSSS!!! Alrighty, here we go!

6. (Pages 362-365) Elphaba goes to Shiz to see Madame Morrible (so she can kill her) but Madame Morrible is old and has been replaced. The new Head tells her where to find Madame Morrible, so she goes there. When she gets there, she finds Madame Morrible already dead. She gets mad that she had been waiting 15 years to kill her, and was 5 minutes too late in the end, so she smashed her in the head with a trophy anyway.

7. (Pages 365-371) She runs into Avaric, and she tells him how she "killed" Madame Morrible. He says something about knowing someone named Mrs. Yackle, or something, which scares her for some reason or other. Avaric tells her about a dwarf he met earlier in the day, and he invites her to eat dinner with him and his wife sos he does.

8. (Pages 372-375) She runs into the dwarf Avaric mentioned, and he takes out the dragon clock, showing her life. Apparently, she is a recarnation fo Saint Aelphaba or something? Anywho, he shows a mysterious man giving her mother a drink which knocks her out and then raping her. She realizes that this was the wizard. She wants to see the end of the play, but the dwarf says it hasn't been written yet.

9. (Pages 376-378) Elphaba runs into Boq, and she tells him about how she "killed" Madame Morrible, and he gets all mad at her. Then she gets mad because she says he used to be different. She hunts for Dorothy, and finds a peddler who had seen her. He mentions Dorothy had a straw man, a tin woodman, a big cat, and a leopard or something with her. LOL

10. (Page 379) Elphaba is about to give up when she sees Dorothy and her gang on the yellow brick road.

11. (Pages 379-384) Elphaba sees Nanny and talks to her for a while. Liir finally found that fish in the well that "talked" to him. Elphaba has a flaskback of her childhood. She sees something about her father begging for forgiveness for falling in love with Turtle Heart, and he begins to loathe everyone and himself. Elphaba sees herself in Dorothy. Then she drinks some kind of potion and has a nightmare?!?! IDK! Elphaba asks Nanny where she got the potion, but Nanny doesn't remember.

12. (Pages 384-387) There is lots of gossip about Dorothy. Apparently she and her friends visited the Wizard, and they all asked for things, but he said no, and that they have to kill Elphaba first. The Wizard told them that Elphaba is an assassin. Liir says that since everyone asked the Wizard for something he was wondering what she wants the most. She wants a soul, and he wants a father. :'( AWWW!!!

13. (Pages 387-388) Basically she is thinking about religion, and thinking that it can't hurt to believe in the Unnamed God.

14. (Pages 388-389) One of the soldiers proposed that if Dorothy came their way, they should kill all her friends, tie her up, and use her for amusement. That soldier was found bloody and cut up on a windmill rotating while the birds picked at his guts, and he wasn't even dead. I think Elphaba felt bad so she went to go kill him. Elphaba misses Fiyero.

15. (Pages 390-394) Liir's dog Killjoy ran off to Dorothy one day and the tinman killed him. I think Dorothy is coming to Nanny's for dinner? idk! Elphaba invited them over to ask for the shoes, i think.

16. (Pages 394-399) Dorothy arrives and she asks Nanny where the Wicked Witch of the West is. Elphaba tells Dorothy that she killed her sister, and Dorothy is all 'well, that house that hit her technically didn't belong to me.' During their dinner, Dorothy begins crying and sayign how she misses Auntie Em andher family. Dorothy's dog, Toto, reminds Elphaba of Killjoy, her dog, who she misses very much. OMGOMGOMG! THE LION IS THAT CUB THAT THEY WERE TRYING TO EXPERIMENT ON AT SHIZ! And Elphaba saved him! WHOA! Chistery takes Toto, and Dorothy gets all sad and is all SAVE MY DOGGIE!

17. (Pages 399-403) Elphaba asks Dorothy why she has come, and does she plan to kill her. Dorothy says she doesn't know what she's talking about. The Elphaba asks for the shoes, but they are stuck to Dorothy's feet. Elphaba is mad because Liir loves Dorothy so much he would abandon her, plus Dorothy killed her sister, and now she has her shoes. Dorothy sticks her broom into a fire and holds is near Dorothy and demands to know if she came to murder her. The fire caught onto the Witch's dress and Dorothy, in an attempt to save her, splashed water on her.

18. (Pages 403-406) Everyone is glad that the Wicked Witch of the West died, and they all celebrate. Basically, Dorothy gets home, no one misses the Witch or cares, and she never got her shoes after all. OH NOO!! :'(

LAST QUESTION POST

Sorry, that all the questions are out of order, but I just wrote down questions while reading and thats why all of the posts skip around. SORRY! well this is my last post because i have 6 previous ones and you all need to answer them so I tried to keep them short and not confusing (:

1) Why does Alphaba make friends with a bunch of bees?

2) How did your opinion on the wizard change from before reading the book to after?

3) WHy is Alpaba mean? and Id Glinda Mean or do you still see her as the nice witch from teh wizard of oz?

4) Did you see how it started to tie into the wizard of oz at the end?

5) Did you enjoy, hate, like the book? Why? Did you find it confusing ? ( I did :P)

6) Did you except for the wizard to be the mean killer of Sarmina and all of her sisters and Fiyero?

Post 6 - questions

1) How come all the children but Liir got presents?

2) Why does Sarmina have a real name and the rest of her sisters names are all numbers (One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and Six) ?

3) Do you think that Sarmina refuses to listen to Fiyero's death because she was a part of it, or because its still to painful to know?

4) Why do Liir and MAnek and all of the other children think that Alphaba is a witch??

5) Do you think that Fiyero was a spy? having an affair with Glinda? and thats why he is killed?

QUESTIONER!

1) At Sarmina's house why do you think Manek tells Liir to go and hide in a well?

2) Would you have gone down in the well?

3) Do you think Alphaba knew that it was Maneks fault that Liir was in the well?

4) Why do you think Alphaba saved Liir, and how?

QUESTIONER! questionss

1) How are you suppossed to tell the difference between animals and Animals besides the spelling?

2) How does Fiyero die? Is he killed?

3) Why are Glinda and Elphaba going to see Oz?

4) What is the Philosophy club and is it a real club (like dancing) or like a club with people? I'm a little confused about this.

5) Why do you think everyone keeps asking where Alphaba got her name and what she is named after?

QUESTIONSSSS

Hey guys some of the the characters confused me, so here are my questions

1) Who's fay? or Ferro?

2) Why do you think Boq likes Gelinda?

3) Is there a seperate Glinda and Saint Glinda? Or are they the same person?

4) Why do you think we are all confused by the book? LOL

Summary #8

YESSS!! I'M ALMOST DONE!!! SWEET VICTORY!!! Alrighty, I'm just going to get right to it :)

THE MURDER AND ITS AFTERLIFE

1. (Pages 332-333) There is a giant tornado. A house comes down. Guess who's inside? DOROTHY! :)

2. (Pages 333-337) When Elphaba is told about Nessarose's death, she is busy trying to sew wings onto her monkey. (THE FLYING MONKEYS!!!) Liir, who is now 14, decides to tell Nanny about Nessarose's death. It's been seven years and Elphaba was never able to get Sarmina back.

3. (Pages 337-348) The munchkins have declared that, with the death of Nessarose, there will be no more Eminence, so Elphaba will not take over. Frex is very upset about Nessarose. Glina comes to visit for Nessa's funeral. Glinda explains how she was there when the weird girl named Dorothy came out of the house. Someone introduced her as a witch, even though she's a sorceress. Elphaba asks is Glina ever had an affair with Fiyero, and she says no. She tells Elphaba that she told Dorothy to ask the Wizard to send her home. Then she tells Elphaba that she felt bad for Dorothy, so she gave her Nessarose's shoes because she didn't think she'd care. Elphaba is MMAAADDD!!!

4. (Pages 348-355) Nessarose's funeral starts off the passage. The Wizard wants to talk to Elphaba. The Wizard wants the shoes too. Elphaba wants the Wizard to help her find Sarmina. The Wizard shows her that he has Nor in chains! (She is now 16 or 17). He killed Sarmina and all of her sisters. STUPID WIZARD! He wants some kind of book...? The wizard tells her that ever since Elphaba refused Madame Morrible's offer, he told her to keep an eye on Elphaba, and he knew all about her love affair with Fiyero, and killed him as well.

5. (Pages 355-362) Elphaba meets up with Boq and his wife and kids. Dorothy stayed at his Inn and Elphaba wants to know what she's like, and how she can get the shoes. He tells her he gave her directions to the Wizard, and then they discuss Doctor Dillamond. Elphaba wants to kill Madame Morrible.

I WILL FINISH LATER!

more questionssss

Here are some questions that we discussed at our meetings in school.

1) Why do you think the dwarf is pointing at Tibbett and talkign about X and Y?

2) What is X and Y?

3) How did the professor die?

4) What or who is the lion? and Why is it at the Philosophy club?

Summary #7

OMMMGGG! SUMMARIZING TAKES FOREVER! Ok, well, in any event I shall try to finish it up for the most part today...

UPRISINGS

1. (Pages 287-293) This passage describes Nanny. She is 78, she has a cane, she wears too much powder on her face, and her lip rouge is smeared and off center, etc. She and Elphaba discuss Nessarose's independence. Sarmina says something about how Fiyero would never be Liir's father. Liir says that a fish in the well talked to him. For some reason, Elphaba thinks she could possibly be Liir's mother, even though she says she might not remember giving birth to him? what? I'M CONFUSED!

2. (Pages 293-300) The family is devastated because Manek died. Nor sees some men in a distance and tells them to stop walking on her land, but they keep going. Elphaba doesn't want Sarmina to give them shelter, but she does. Liir thinks that the soldier men people are super cool. Elphaba and Nanny discuss Melena and why she wanted Elphaba to be a boy (so she, Elphaba, would not be stuck inheriting Frex's title). Also, they talk about how Nessarose's father might be Turtle heart

3. (Pages 301-305) Nor tries to do chores for the soldier and be nice to them. One day she takes Elphaba's broom because it is better for sweeping their rooms. The broom begins to move and float. She tells Elphaba, who scolds her for touching her broom. Then Elphaba tries to get it to levitate later on, and she gets it a few feet off the ground. Later, she decides to meet her father and sister.

4. (Pages 305-313) Elphaba flies on her broom home to where her sister and father are. He talks to Elphaba and tells her she would be better for Nessarose's job. Later, she and Nessarose catch up with eachother.

5. (Pages 313-317) Nessarose is approached by a woman who has a maid. This maid fell in love with a woodcutter and wants to stop working for the woman to marry him, but the woman doesn't want that. She offers Nessarose some Animals to fix that. Elphaba gets mad and tells Nessarose she MUST get those animals. Nessarose bewitches an ax and gives it to the woman. She has made it so that the ax will chop off the woodcutters arm, in the hopes that the maid will find him less appealing. Elphaba goes to free the Animals, but they don't want to leave. They say that, either way, they'll end up in captivity. The C0w thinks he'll be eaten, or sacrificed. Still, they leave.

6. (Pages 317-325) Frex and Elphaba have a discussion. Frex asks Elphaba to take Nessarose's job. Frex admits that both he AND Melena were IN LOVE with Turtle Heart. Oh god. Later, Nessarose asks Elphaba to help her be the Eminence. Also, she promises Elphaba her bewitched amazing shoes when she dies. (The shoes help her stand by herself). Elphaba brings up the time Madame Morrible said something to them about working for the Wizard. Then they discuss souls, which Elphaba does not believe in.

7. (Pages 325-329) Elphaba goes back to Sarmina but Nanny is the only one left. The soldiers have taken everyone. They probably did it because they knew Elphaba was gone, and they had been afraid of her before. Elphaba is sad.

Literary Luminary

Page 20

The women catapulted into action. The fishwife lunged to strangle the girl, and the crone and the maiden flared up in defense. The finger was dug out of the mire and shoved in an apron pocket, possibly to sew back onto the hand that had lost it. "It's a cock, she just realized she didn't have one," screeched the maiden, and fell on the ground laughing. "Oh, beware the stupid boy first tries to please himself with her! She'll snip his young sprout off for a souvenir!" The midwives crawled back into the clock and dropped the thing at its mother's breast, afraid to consider mercy murder for fear of what else the baby might bite.

Elphaba is unwanted even in infancy. She scares the midwives by biting one's finger off and they ridicule her. She was born shrivled and with green skin. I find even as a baby, she is misunderstood. Her own mother doesn't pay attention to her at all.

end of vocabs!

adzes: An axlike tool with a curved blade at right angles to the handle, used for shaping wood. "You do not need to defend yourselves with knives and adzes," said the Witch coldly." page 377.

gawky: Awkward; ungainly. "There is the green girl, shy, gawky, and humiliated." page 381.

impenetrably: Impossible to understand; incomprehensible. "She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she, impenetrably mysterious and dense-she stands as Dorothy stood." page 382.

cipher: One having no influence or value; a nonentity. "The Tin Woodman was hollow, a tiktok cipher, or an eviscerated human under a spell." page 389.

troupe: A company or group, especially of touring actors, singers, or dancers. "By this the witch guessed that the troupe had arrived in Red Windmill, and were given a royal welcome." page 390.

vertigo: An instance of such a sensation. "The Lion moaned in pain and wept from vertigo." page 394.

progeny: One born of, begotten by, or derived from another; an offspring or a descendant. "Killyjoy, who had been with her eight years, a fly ridden corpse going stiff on the hill among all his progeny." page 397.

apocryphal: of questionable authenticity. "It may merely be apocryphal that when the wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart." page 406.




NOW WE REACHED THE END OF THE BOOK. YAY! ANY FINAL THOUGHTS/COMMENTS ABOUT IT? HOPE MY VOCABULARY DEFINITIONS HELPED YOU! :]


-Monica Sharma :]

Summary #6

HEY EVERYONE! Ok, so I left off at page 197... so here we go

CITY OF EMERALDS (Pages 197-222) (continued...)

Elphaba and Fiyero have random discussions here and there. She mentions that she might be involved with some campaigning againt the Wizard and some innocent bystander may be hurt in the process of whatever she is going to do to stop him. Later Fiyero witnesses someone abusing a Bear and he becomes very upset, but decides not to bring it up to Elphaba. Later Elphaba tells Fiyero that she will be involved in some type of activity that will be dangerous and he needs to steer clear of public places. He buys scarves for his wife, children, and Elphaba, and runs into Glinda while buying them. They have some conversation and Glinda brings up Elphaba, but Fiyero doesn't mention anything. He goes back home and Elphaba tells him he should leave town for Lurlinemas Eve, but he refuses. Elphaba leaves the house and he follows her. She wants to kill Madame Morrible, but she is with students, so Elphaba can't. He has lost Elphaba and he doesn't know where she went so eh goes home, and he is beaten to death (I don't know by who). Elphaba goes to a convent for a place to stay and they take her in.

IN THE VINKUS

1. The Voyage Out (Pages 224- 231)
One of the sister people gave Elphaba a bunch of paper. She is on some kind of journey somewhere or other... Oh, this book confuses me... The cook is mean. The cook has a dog, and Elphaba's page, a little boy named Liir, really likes it. :) Elphaba somehow befriends a bunch of bees. Then they talk about the Kumbric witch.

2. (Pages 232-235) They visit the Yunamata, who are just a tribe of random people I think. The cook completely dissappears, which is odd... Someone accuses the bees of killing the cook, but Elphaba says it wasn't them. Later they leave the Yunamata and approach the Scrow people.

3. (Pages 235-239) They meet the Scrow people and the Scrow rafiqui, who introduces Elphaba and her posse to their princess, Princess Nastoya, who is filthy and uneducated. I really do not understand anything on the next 3 pages or so... I think the princess is an elephant...? The princess tells Elphaba that she must is a witch and she told the bees the kill the cook.

4) (Pages 240-243) They are leaving the Scrow people at this point. The book says something about sacrifice but, as per usual, I do not understand. They enter the Arjiki tribal lands. Kiomo Ko is a week away (I guess that's where she is headed). Then Elphaba goes to save a baby monkey of some sort or something? And she walks on water, which turns to ice? WHAT DOES ANY OF THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING!?!?! I hate this book... Elphaba reaches Kiomo Ko and decides she is going to stay there, and Liir wants to come with her.

THE JASPTER GATES OF KIOMO KO

1. (Pages 244-249) Sarmina and her sisters (who are named One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and Six) are surprised when Elphaba visits them. They allow her and Liir to live with them. Sarmina tells her daughter Nor the story of the Witch and the fox, which is a story of a witch who caught three fozes to eat for dinner and she put them in a cage but they outwitted her and sang ehr to sleep, and then the sun burned off the door o the cage and they could run free and then the moon blocked the witch inside her cave, and she never came out. Elphaba tried to tell Sarmina about Fiyero's death, but she refuses to hear it.

2. (Page 250-255) Manek and the other children think that Elphaba is a witch. Liir tells them that her broom is magic, which they do not believe. Elphaba visits Sarmina, who tells her she doesn't want to know anything about her husbands death, and tells Elphaba that she must move to a different tower with Liir.

3. (Pages 255-258) Elphaba likes her room. One day she find sisters Two through Six chasing around Chistery (her monkey) and she yells at them. Nor took Elphaba's paper also. She was very angry. Then, one Lurlinemas morning all of the children got presents except for Liir. :'(

4. (Pages 259-264) Elphaba goes to visit the sisters to apologize for yelling at them about Chistery, and they begin to discuss Fiyero's death. The sisters believe that Fiyero had been having an affair with Glinda and was found and murdered by her husband, or they think Fiyero got into some political scandal, or maybe he was a spy. Elphaba begins to tell them what she thinks but Sarmina come in and interrupts them.

5. (Pages 264-268) Elphaba and Sarmina look at some books. Sarmina tells Elphaba that an elderly gentleman gave her a book in exchange for a place to stay for a while. He said the book was from another world and was too valuable to burn so he gave it to her to hide.

6. (Pages 268-272) Manek and Liir and Nor and the children decide to play Hide and Seek. They hear Elphaba trying to teach Chistery to speak and it isn't working well. The children don't tell thr adults about this. The adults ask Elphaba about her magic broom and she says she doesn't know if its magic or not.

7. (Pages 272-274) The children decide to visit Chistery and see if he can tell them about Elphaba, which, of course, he can't because he's a monkey and he doesn't speak. Elphaba finds them and kicks them out of her room.

8. (Pages 274-278) The children play Hide and Seek again. Manek tells Liir to go hide in the well and no one will find him. Liir gets scared, but he does it because Manek peer pressures him. Later, the sisters are looking for Liir but no one can find him, and Manek doesn't tell anyone where he is.

9. (Pages 278-280) Nanny comes to visit Elphaba and everyone. Nanny brings them news of the Wizard and lets them knwo that he has declared himself Emperor.

10. (Pages 281-286) Everyone discusses where Elphaba's name comes from. She was named after Saint Aelphaba of the Waterfall, who was so beautiful that she got tons of attention. When she couldn't stand it any more, she grabbed a bunch of grapes and ran behind the waterfall to live by herself, and was never seen again. Later, the children find Liir. They wonder how he got down a well, but Manek pretends he had no idea how that happened. When they pull out Liir, he is dead, and Nanny and Elphaba try their best to revive him, and he comes to life again. :) YAY! As Manek is walking out the door, thinking of new ways to upset Liir, Elphaba thinks about how an icicle would be an excellant weapon and stares at it, and it hits Manek in the head and he dies.

ALRIGHTY THATS ALL FOR NOW! :) BYE!!!!!!!!

Summary #5

YO YO YO YO!!!!

Alrighty, so I have summarized everything up to page 164. Unfortunately, I have MUCH MUCH MUCH more to go and I am seriously wishing I was not the summarizer right now. :'( Oh well. Here we go.

7) (Pages 164-169) Alrighty, I don't understand this bit at all. Now Boq is at Philosophy Club or something...? Everyone is dancing and something happens to Avaric or something, and and then Boq meets a tiger or something and some dwarf is talking about equations and variables...? THIS CONFUSES ME DEEPLY!

8) (Pages 169-178) Glinda and Elphaba are on their way to visit THE WIZARD!!! OMG!!! (NOTICE on page 171 at the top the word BUTTRESSES appears... that was a Global word :D lol) They have four minutes to talk to him and they walk through a giant circular hallway to get to him. The Wizard asks who they are and Elphaba chickens out, so Glinda introduces them to him. Elphaba is being kind of fresh to the wizard later on, and Glinda is scared... :) LOL! They begin discussing Doctor Dillamond, and they say something or other about Madame Morrible. Then The Wizard of Oz recites a poem and tells them to beware whom they serve. Later on, Elphaba decides to run away and Glinda becomes sad.

CITY OF EMERALDS (Pages 179-222)

I believe this is many years later...? Elphaba runs into that blue student from a while ago. His name is Fiyero. She tries to avoid him, and she keeps telling him to leave her alone, but he doesn't. She allows him into her home, which is in a storeroom. He asks about her life and she doesn't tell him anything. She is afraid he is a spy for the Wizard. Later, she asks about everyones life. Boq had married Miss Milla, Avaric got a house in Shiz, and Glinda married some old rich guy or something. They discuss Fiyero's life with his wife, Sarmina. They begin to have a love affair. Fiyero calls Elphaba Fae, as a secret nickname. Elphaba tells him about her childhood. THIS ENDS AT PAGE 197 I'L FINISH LATER

Summary #4

Well, well. We meet again. I left off at page 104, so I shall start from page 105. HERE WE GO!

BOQ

3) (Pages 105-112) Galinda is stuck at school for her summer vacation. Boq talks to her for a while. A few weeks later he runs into Elphaba. Elphaba tells him about Nessarose. NOTICE how she mentions that she is getting her sister striped stocking... (I believe that is what she was wearing when she got hit by that house in The Wizard of Oz). They discuss Doctor Dillamond, and they say something or other about his work....?

4) (Pages 112-116) Boq and his friends are dressing up for some reason...? They want to get Doctor Dillamond's research, or something, I think. Apparently he had some type of scientific break through. The only part I understand here is that a myth tells them that the Gillikin River was created first because Lurline peed immensely??? and apparently Animals became Animals instead of animals because they drank tears from The Unnamed God (who reminds me of He Who Must Not Be Named, but that's totally different). I AM SO CONFUSED! LAURA PLEASE RESEARCH THIS

5) (Pages 116-124) Elphaba recieves a letter from Galinda, who is vacationing with Shenshen and Pfannee, telling her to join them. She doesn't want to go, but Boq ic concerned that Galinda might desperately need Elphaba so she goes. Then she learns that Pfannee wrote that letter as a joke. Galinda get very embarrassed and she is angry that Elphaba is going to stay on vacation with her. She tells Boq about this, and then he kisses her.

6) (Pages 124-127) WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE!?!? He is looking at a picture of a Witch... why is this significant in any way? Who is this person? He thinks she is either feeding animals, or sacrificing them. Boq visits Elphaba and asks if Galinda has talked about him, but she says no.

7) (Pages 127-129) Basically the characters find out that Doctor Dillamond has been murdered. Ama Clutch found him dead.

THE CHARMED CIRCLE
1) (Pages 130-133) Galinda feels really bad for Doctor Dillamond and, because she feels bad, she remembers that he had once called her Glinda, and changes her name to that. Nessarose and Nanny meet Boq. This is really Glinda's changing point.

2) (Pages 133-139) Elphaba begins to tell Glinda about her childhood. Glinda and Elphaba discuss magic and religion, and Nessarose disagrees with Elphaba's views.

3) (Pages 139-146) Boq and Elphaba discuss their new professor, Doctor Nikidik. Apparently Elphaba has figured out who killed Doctor Dillamond or something, but won't tell him. There is a new student, and he is almost hit with antlers, which were flying around because Doctor Nikidik was attempting magic. The students don't take too kindly to the new boy (possibly because of his blue skin?) Doctor Nikidik does an experiment on a kitten. He plans to kill the kitten and examine his brain to see if it is a Kitten or a kitten. Everyone gets mad at him.

4) (Pages 146-152) Boq doesn't love Glinda anymore because she is so different from the old Galinda. LAURA AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 147, WHAT ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT? WHAT'S THAT GROMMETIK THING? Elphaba's father send a package to Nessarose; THE RUBY SLIPPERS! Elphaba is pretty sad because she didn't get anything. Later, everyone goes out and they all tell Elphaba to sing, so she does, and they realize she has a very good singing voice.

5) (Pages 152-154) Galinda goes to visit Ama Clutch, who is dying of a disease that she actually made up earlier in the novel. Ama Clutch dies.

6) (Pages 154-164) Ama Clutch has a very small funeral. Madame Morrible won't let them have any cream which is apparently something they usually eat at funerals. Glinda confesses to Madame Morrible that Ama Clutch did not have the disease at first (the one she had previously made up) and only got it later on. HERE I AM CONFUSED; Madame Morrible is asking them to do some kind of job... what is she asking of them? They're supposed to work for the wizard some how? And after that they've decided to go to some place....? I have no idea.....

advance vocab words pg. 288-374.

theocracy: a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities. "Nanny assumed Nessarose intended to set up some sort of theocracy, incorporating into the government laws of Munchkinland her own restrictive interpretation of unionism." page 288.

javelin: a light spear, usually thrown by hand. "Any torturer was fair game for javelin icicles." page 289.

musing: absorbed in thought; meditative. "Elphaba at last, coming back to the orchard from her musings. Nanny was gnawing at a piece of sugar candy." page 290.

reprimand: a severe reproof or rebuke, esp. a formal one by a person in authority. "She did not want to touch the broom again, but when she picked it up the life had gone out of it, and she carried it up to the witch's apartments expecting a severe reprimand." page 303.

frivolous: self-indulgently carefree; unconcerned about or lacking any serious purpose. "And at first the discussion was frivolous- family memories, school days." page 313.

semblance: An outward or token appearance. "Or was it only put to him by Madame Morrible that he did, to assuage his obvious ego, his appetite for the semblance of power?" page 326.

apothecary: One that prepares and sells drugs and other medicines; a pharmacist. "She rummaged through her bag for some smelling salts, pulling out enough little bottles and satchels to set up her own apothecary business." page 327.

petulantly: Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish. "Nanny continued petulantly, "And we all thought they'd ambushed you earlier, to get you out of the way." page 329.

credulity: A disposition to believe too readily. "Almost intact upon the platform rigged up for the visiting dignitaries was stretching credulity enough." page 333.

menagerie: A collection of live wild animals on exhibition. "Chistery, now a patriarch in the castle menagerie, had plateaued at words of one syllable, and still seemed to have no clear idea of what he was saying." page 334.

blithely: Carefree and lighthearted. "Besides," Glinda went on blithely, "having some motherly instinct somewhere inside this pushed up bosom of mine, I gave her Nessa's shoes as a sort of protection." page 346.

vicinity: A nearby, surrounding, or adjoining region; a neighborhood. "She was glad for a moment that Nessarose's magicked shoes were safely out of the vicinity." page 349.

sanctimonious: Feigning piety or righteousness. "Murder is a word used by the sanctimonious," he said. " page 352.

eulogized: To praise highly in speech or writing, especially in a formal eulogy. "The Doddery was a broad round tower, like a squat silo, sitting adjacent to the chapel in which doctor Dillamond had been eulogized. " page 364.

brigands: A robber or bandit, especially one of an outlaw band. "-oh all right, was brutally murdered by brigands unknown, have it you way. Brigands in the form of madame Morrible, that is what you mean me to suppose. So why really did you do it?" page 368.

drolly: Amusingly odd or whimsically comical. "What a treat," Avaric said. The dinner guests drolly applauded her." page 371.

recluse: A person who withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude. "The good woman, the mystic and recluse, who disappeared to pray behind a waterfall." page 374.



Is it just me, or is this book REALLY confusing/boring to read? What do you think makes it that way?


-Monica Sharma (:

Summary #3

HOWDY!

Alrighty, so I left off at page 92, so without further adu, my summry will continue!

AND THAT ALL RHYMED!

BOQ
1) (Pages 93-98) Basically Boq's friends are inviting him to go to a pub with them, but he refuses because he needs to study. Avaric is suspicious about why Boq doesn't want to go to the pub, but he eventually leaves. Boq decides to spy on the girls while they are changing, and is caught by Elphaba.

2) (Pages 99-104) Boq loves Galinda and he and Elphaba make a plan to get him to meet up with her. Galinda says she will never be able to date him because she is Gilikinese and he is a Munchkinlander. Boq tries to change her mind. Elpha interrupts their conversation quite often, and tries to get Galinda to go out with him.

Alrighty, thats all I can do for now. BYE EVERYONE!

SUMMARY #2

HEY GUYS! OK, so I totally procrastinated... Not going to lie, I didn't even understand most of this book, and that made me feel less like summarizing. :'( Sadness... Anywho, my last post left off at page 21 I do believe... so, starting from page 22, here's my summary!

MALADIES AND REMEDIES (pages 22-31)

This begins with Melena being terribly dissapointed in her baby, as is Frex. However, Nanny decides to give Elphaba a chance and, though she doesn't like her very much, she tries to make her feel loved. Frex believes that Elphaba is a demon-baby, or something along those lines. Later, Nanny is suspicious of exactly who Elphaba's father is, so she asks Melena, but even Melena doesn't know who the father is, or why she is green. Frex attempts an exorcism, which does not work. :)

THE QUADLING GLASSBLOWER (page 32-37)

Melena has formed some type of bond between herself and Elphaba, even though it isn't a very maternal one. Melena reflects on the attention she used to get from Frex, and how no one wants her now, and is basically wallowing in self-pity. This is when a quadling glassblower appears. His name is Turtle Heart. He blows glass for her, and I guess sees a bit of her future (or her present) in it? Melena has an affair with him at this point.

GEOGRAPHIES OF THE SEEN AND UNSEEN (pages 38-44)

Frex comes home. Melena is shy and Elphaba is playing with toys given to her by Frex. Frex begins talking to Turtle Heart about religion and such. Nanny explains her belief that the fairy queen Lurline saw the land of Oz while flying above and left her daughter Ozma to take care of it for her.

CHILD'S PLAY (pages 45-51)

Nanny thinks that there are beasts abroad, but Melena doesn't think so. Nanny tells Melena that Elphaba needs to interact with other children. They bring her to a woman named Gawnette who has (or watches over, I guess) many children. Elphaba plays with them.

DARKNESS ABROAD (pages 52-62)

Melena sleeps with Turtle Heart (yet again... What else is new?). Frex believes their time in that location is limited (they might have to move due to something or other with the Dragon Clock? That confuses me! LAURA DO YOU WANT TO RESEARCH THAT FOR ME!??! lol). Elphaba says her first word, which is "Horrors." Gee whiz, what excitement. Turtle Heart discusses how he is opposed to the building of the Yellow Brick Road. Turtle Heart says he must leave to fight with his people in the hopes that they will keep the Yellow Brick Road from being built. Melena announces that she is yet again pregnant (suprise suprise). Someone named Yackle (LAURA PLEASE RESEARCH WHO THAT IS!) told Melena that it is important that she have two children because that is in her destiny. Now I'm a little confused as to what is happening at the end... LAURA RESEARCH THAT! lol

GALINDA

1) (Pages 64-70) Galinda is on her journey to Shiz, a boarding-school-college type of thing which she is very excited to go to. She meets a Goat who asks how she feels about Oz banning Animals from using transportation systems such as the train to which she replies that she doesn't care. She meets Madame Morrible, who is in charge of rooming assignments. Because Galinda's Ama hadn't been able to come earlier and get her a higher ranking roomie, she is stuck with Elphaba.

2) (Pages 71-82) Galinda doesn't want to room with Elphaba, so she makes up a story about how Ama Clutch has a sort-of mental disorder where she talks to inanimate objects and therefore cannot watch over Galinda AND Elphaba, only just Galinda. Madame Morrible denies her her own room, and then Galinda befriends Pfannee, Shenshen, and Milla. They gossip about Elphaba. Later, Elphaba and Galinda have a conversation and discuss evil and good. Galinda makes Elphaba try on her hat and, even though it looks good on her, Galinda tells all of her friends that it looked terrible.

3) (Pages 82-91) There is a soiree for the students of Shiz and Madame Morrible gives a very very long dramatic speech (or, I guess, a poem?). She mentions that "animals should be seen and not heard" but it is unclear whether she means animals or Animals. There is much controversy over this. Galinda meets a boy named Boq. Doctor Dillamond, a Goat teacher, discusses how Animals should be treated fairly. Elphaba brings up the line that Madame Morrible said about Animals in her class, but is told to hush.

4) (Pages 91-92) Galinda has a chat with Madame Morrible. Madame Morrible says that Galidna should look into taking sourcery as a course and then she might be able to switch room mates. Galidna says that she will think about it.

vocab words. p.223-286

turgid: swollen; distended. "She was almost amused to note in herself such a turgid, old-fashioned feeling as jealousy." page 229.

glibly: Performed with a natural, offhand ease. "Was it Kumbricia herself taking revenge on them for discussing her so glibly?" page 232.

incarceration: To shut in; confine. "They know I am a beast who chooses magical incarceration as a human over the dangerous liberty of my own powerful form." page 238.

belied: To give a false representation to; misrepresent. "They all belied its original intention as the head of a waterworks." page 242.

ladle: A long-handled spoon with a deep bowl for serving liquids. "Four had the ladle in the tureen, stirring; Six had dressed in hostile puce. " page 249.

tureen: A broad, deep, usually covered dish used for serving foods such as soups or stews. "Four had the ladle in the tureen, stirring; Six had dressed in hostile puce. " page 249.

puce: A deep red to dark grayish purple. "Four had the ladle in the tureen, stirring; Six had dressed in hostile puce. " page 249.

hellebore: Any of various plants of the genus Helleborus, native to Eurasia, most species of which are poisonous. "She took the tiniest sip possible from her drink, as if suspecting hellebore." page 259.

disreputable: Lacking respectability, as in character, behavior, or appearance. "There was an address is a disreputable area- not even a residential neighborhood." page 260.

skeins: A length of thread or yarn wound in a loose long coil. "The strands are the same, the skeins are the same; the rock remembers; the water has memory; the air has a past for which it can be held accountable; the flame renews itself like a pfenix." page 269.

rutabaga: A length of thread or yarn wound in a loose long coil. "What's to be done?" said Sarima. "Here, taste this rutabaga, is it gone to the dogs?" page 276.

piqued: To provoke; arouse. "Elphaba, her curiosity as piqued as anyone else's, stood with the Dowager Princess of the Arjikis and her sisters on a parapet above the crudely carved front doorway." page 278.

sullen: Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky. "The only small annoyance (besides that Nanny wasn't a young eligible princeling looking for a bride) was that Liir still conducted his campaign of sullen disappearance." page 279.

lurid: Glowing or shining with the glare of fire through a haze. "When they swiveled the cover off, the lurid gleam of light on pale human flesh had terrified them."

obdurate: Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent. "And I think some of the spirits are very patient, very wearing, very obdurate." page 285.



Were there any vocabulary words that you were confused about in this chapter?


-MONICA SHARMA :]

vocabs p.146-223

repugnance: extreme dislike or aversion. "Perhaps every accidental cluster of people has a short period of grace, in between the initial shyness and prejudice on the on ehand and eventual repugnance and betrayal on the other." page 146

magicked: the practice of using charms, spells, or rituals to attempt to produce supernatural effects or control events in nature. "I hate that Grommetik thing," said Nessarose. "However does it work, anyway? Is it clockwork or is it magicked, or some combination of the two?" page 147

lacquered: A glossy, resinous material, such as the exudation of the lacquer tree, used as a surface coating. "Were they silver?-or blue?-or now red?-lacquered with a candy shell brilliance of polish?" page 149

gumption: Boldness of enterprise; initiative or aggressiveness. someone who has guts or spunk. "He requires a few generals. In the long run. Some people with managing skills. Some people with gumption." page 158

hasp: A metal fastener with a hinged slotted part that fits over a staple and is secured by a pin, bolt, or padlock. "He pointed to a huge oak door, barred with two monstrous timbers in iron hasps." page 165

carcass: Remains from which the substance or character is gone. "The woman watched the carriage pass, and her face showed a yearning to be on it, to be dead, to be anywhere else other than on this carcass of a property." page 169

pratfalling: A fall on the buttocks. "She gave up then, and he fell stupidly against the unplastered brick wall of the stairwell, like a pratfalling twit in a vaudeville hour." page 183

ale: A fermented alcoholic beverage containing malt and hops, similar to but heavier than beer. "She took a little ale in a pipkin, left the rest for him." page 185

novice: A person new to a field or activity; a beginner. "What in the world do you know about wickedness? You're a bit player in this network of renegades, aren't you? You're a novice." page 197

culpability: Deserving of blame or censure as being wrong, evil, improper, or injurious. "If you suppress the idea of personhood then you suppress the notion of individual culpability." page 199

capacious: Capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy. "In display windows, papier-mache figures evoked the good Fairy Queen Lurline in her winged chariot, and her assistant, the minor fairy Preenella, who stewed gift-wrapped delights from her capacious magic basket." page 207

genteel: Refined in manner; well-bred and polite. "Inside the glass doors, house management was busy lining up stanchions and stringing velvet ropes to promote a genteel entry into the hall." page 217

voided: Having the central area cut out or left vacant, leaving an outline or narrow border. "Voided, washed down, and at least loosely done up again, he tried to coax Malky with a bowl of milk." page 219

miasma: A poisonous atmosphere or influence "She dragged the forlorn thing down toward the winter salon, where the old retired biddies lived out their lives in a haze of amnesia and the discreetly placed clumps of marginium plants, whose sweet miasma helped mask the odors of the old and incontinent." page 221

sepal: One of the separate, usually green parts forming the calyx of a flower. "She could only keep Elphaba's hands tightly clutched within her own, as a sepal sockets the furls of young petal." page 222


How do you feel about the relationship between Elphaba and Fiyero? What do you predict will happen to the two of them in the future?



-Monica Sharma :]

Summary #1

OMG GUYS! I know I have not posted for two weekends :'( Bad me. I was super duper uber busy, so I am going to do my first summary... RIGHT NOW! OK HERE WE GO!

PROLOGUE; Basically, you are looking at the beginning of The Wizard of Oz through the witches point of view. She mentions that Dorothy is wearing her sister's shoes, which shows foreshadowing. The Lion and Tin Man and Scarecrow are gossiping about Elphaba behind her back also. That stinks. :'(

THE ROOT OF EVIL (pages 6-10)

Here you are introduced to Frex and his wife Melena. On this day, Melena is supposed to give birth to their child. Instead of sticking around to help with the birth, Frex, a Unionist minister, wants to against the Clock of the Time Dragon, which Frex thinks distracts Munchkinlanders from their Unionist roots.

THE CLOCK OF THE TIME DRAGON (pages 11-14)

In this part of the book, Frex recieves a letter from his cousin, who is also a minister. This letter describes The Clock of the Time Dragon appearance. Apparently, the clock is some kind of oracle. The final part of the letter warns that the clock is coming to Frex's town.

THE BIRTH OF THE WITCH (pages 15-21)

In this section of the book, the clock has predicted that Frex , although a pious man, is keeping jewels secretly. There is an angry mob attacking him. During this attack, Melena is giving birth. They are shocked that the baby is green, and even more shocked that the baby bites a fisherwives finger off. !!!

Information about the Clock of the Time Dragon

in the book(p 11-12,4th paragraph:the letter) it says :"the Clock of the Time Dragon is mounted on a wagon and stands as high as a giraffe. Its nothing more than a tottering, free-standing theatre, punched on all four sides with alcoves and proscenium arches.On the flat roof is a clockwork dragon, an invention of green painted leather,silvery claws......................they dance and dwadle and dally with each other" it explains that the clock accompanied by the dwarf IS NOT a dragon,it's like a wooden hut and its broad roof is crowned by the dragon.
It shows the past,the present,as well as things to come(the future)...it represents the faith of the time clock dragon religion and the vices of the community(pleasure,faith,sex and adultery).
Elphaba is born inside the time dragon and receives the revelation that the wizard is her father from the dragon. Many of the characters in the dragon's shows are later hunted down and killed or at least harassed,including Elphaba's parents and turtle heart.


Hope those informations help you to understand it.

Jose Laura Cande

Gregory Maguire:author

Gregory Maguire(born June 9,1954 in Albany,New York) is an American author. He is the author of the novels Wicked;The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and many other novels for adults and children. Many of Maguire's adult novels are retelling of classic's children's stories: for example, in Wicked he transformed the wicked witch of the west from L. Frank Baum's the wonderful wizard of Oz into the sympathetic protagonist Elphaba. Wicked was into a hit broadway musical of the same name, and is currently working on a fourth book.

Maguire received his B.A. from the State University of New-York at Albany and his Ph.D. in english and american literature from Tufts University. He was a professor and co-director at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature from 1979- 1985. In 1987 Maguire co-founded Children's Literature New England. He still serves as co-director of CLNE, although that organization has announced its intention to close after its 2006 institute. he is also a board member of the National Children's Book and literacy Alliance a national not-for-profit that actively advocates for literacy, literature and libraries.

Maguire is married to painter Andy Newman. They have adopted three children; two from Cambodia and one from Guatemala.

Jose Laura Cande

wordswordswords!

burnished: to make smooth or glossy by or as if by rubbing; polish. "out of the shadows of the reception room came a small tiktok thing, about three feet high, made of burnished bronze, with an identifying plate screwed onto its front." - page 73

callousness: Emotionally hardened; unfeeling. "By callousness, of course, Pfannee meant greenness." - page 74

pantomime: A play, dance, or other theatrical performance characterized by such wordless storytelling. "It was the kind of super-feminine things boys in a pantomime wore when they pretended to be girls." - page 78

brutes: A brutal, crude, or insensitive person. "Well, whatever did those old brutes think about evil, then?" - page 80

cerise: A deep to vivid purplish red. "Galinda brought out her cerise satin gown with the matching shawl and slippers and an heirloom Gilikinese fan, painted with a pattern of ferns and pfenix." - page 82

juxtaposing: To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. "Irony, some say, is the art of juxtaposing incongruous parts." - page 90

incongruous: Not in keeping with what is correct, proper, or logical; inappropriate. "Irony, some say, is the art of juxtaposing incongruous parts."

terricolous: Living on or in the ground. "The animals were terricolous and thus of a lower order than Lurline and her retinue." - page 114

retinue: The retainers or attendants accompanying a high-ranking person. "The animals were terricolous and thus of a lower order than Lurline and her retinue." - page 114

cumbersome: Troublesome or onerous. "She didn't look both ways as she lunged across Railway Square and was nearly mowed down by an old Ox on a cumbersome tricycle." - page 127

eminence: A position of great distinction or superiority. "Elphaba is the Thropp Third Descending. She'll be the Eminence one day." - page 131

apparitions: A ghostly figure or a sudden or unusual sight. "Spells, changings, apparitions? It's all entertainment," said Elphaba. "It's theatre."

effervescence: To escape from a liquid as bubbles; bubble up. "They could all see a small puff of dust, like an effervescence of talcum powder, jostle itself in a swimming plume in the air above the neck of the bottle." - page 140

preamble: A preliminary statement, like an the introduction to a formal document that serves to explain its purpose. "Then the class watched as Doctor Nikdik finished his inaudible preamble and beckoned a student to open the same door at the side of the stage that Fiyero had stmbled through the previous week." - page 144



So guys, what do you predict will happen between Galinda, Ephaba and Boq? Will they become friends? And do you think Galinda will ever accept Elphaba as a person?



-MONICA SHARMA :]

QUESTIONER!

So for the first 70 pages I can up with a few questions that came into my mind while reading. Answer the questions with how you interpret them and ask any questions if you had them :)

1) Why do you think Melena keeps having affairs?
2) Is it fair that they don't treat Elphaba correctly because she is green?
3) Would you treat her like how her parents do and the rest of the town?
4) Based on what you read so far, how do you think this connects to the wizard of oz?
5) Do you agree with the town and parents when they say Elphaba is evil? And do you think that Galinda is in fact the evil one?

More Vocabs!

seer: a person who prophesies future events; prophet. "She felt chilled. She scooped Elphaba up and hugged her tightly. Elphaba sagged as if boneless in her arms, neither fussing nor returning the hug, just falling limp from the novelty of being touched. "Are you a seer?" said Melena. "Turtle Heart to blow glass," he said. He seemed to mean that as an answer." - page 35

syntax: the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words.
unabashed: ashamed or embarrassed. "She was sloping downward into his crippled syntax, in unabashed sympathy. "Can you really to see that in there?" - page 37

reticence: disposed to be silent or not to speak freely. it basically means silence. "She was usually bold with her kisses and he found her reticence alarming until he realized there was a stranger in the shadows." - page 38

trinket: a small ornament, or a piece of jewelry usually of little value. "He found in his pouch a trinket he'd whittled for her, a little sparrow with a cunning break and upraised wings." - page 38

episcopal: of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Episcopal church. "He had imagined he happiness Melena would have as a society dame, presiding over feast day dinners and charity balls and episcopal teas." - page 39

ruminate: to meditate or muse; ponder. "Frex had a notion that she wasn't sorry to see him go off from time to time, so that she could be glad to see him come back. As he ruminated, his beard tickled Elphaba's neck, and she snapped the wings off her wooden sparrow." - page 39

nimbus: a cloud, aura, atmosphere, etc., surrounding a person or thing. "His reddish hair had been washed and was drying into an airy nimbus." - page 40

tiktokism: a type of religion in the world of Oz. I tried researching more but I couldn't find anything :[ "And now respectable unionists are going in droves over to the pleasure faith," said Frex, snorting "or even tiktokism, which hardly even qualifies as a religion." - page 41

codswallop: it's a British slang for nonsense, or rubbish. "Shut up that superstitious codswallop!" shouted Frex." - page 44

barrenness: mentally unproductive; dull; stupid. desolate: abandon. "Wend Hardings is desolate, I agree, but it's a tame barrenness for all that. You're alarming me with your wolf and your tiger talk." - page 45

glib: readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so. "Don't be glib. You know she needs to get used to people other than us. She's not going to have an easy time of it anyhow, unless she sheds her greeny skin as she grows up." - page 46

warble: to sing or whistle with trills. "Look, I give her chores to do, I warble nursery rhymes at her. Melena, why doesn't she respond like other children?" - page 46

dalliance: a trifling away of time; dawdling. "Their afternoons of dalliance began to lose the heat of urgency, and developed in warmth." - page 52

contrivance: a plan or scheme; expedient. "The effect of that blasted tiktok contrivance, the Clock of the Time Dragon, had been wearing off at last-thank to the Unnamed God-and the graceless poor had been turning out to hear Frex harangue them." - page 53

insignia: a badge or distinguishing mark of office or honor. "I found a store marked with the secret insignia of the alchemist's trade." - page 59


baleful: wretched; miserable. "But when he continued along down the carriage, Galinda found that she liked even less the baleful look that the goat was giving her." - page 66

cloisonne: enamelwork in which colored areas are separated by thin metal bands fixed edgewise to the ground. "The Headmistress of Crage Hall, a fish-faced upper class Gillikinese woman wearing a lot of cloisonne bangles, was greeting new arrivals in the atrium." - page 67

terminus: the station or the town at the end of a railway or bus route. "Seeing her freight at the size and bustle of the terminus at Shiz, Dillamond took pity and offered to engage a carriage to take her to Crage Hall." - page 67

impertinent: trivial, silly, or absurd. "You strike me as impertinent, Miss Galinda," she said mildly.
"I have not yet struck you, Madame Morrible," Galinda delivered the daring line with her sweetest smile." - page 70



Are there any other vocabulary words that are not on this list that you are confused about? Feel free to post the word and I'll look it up for you! ;D


-MONICA SHARMA :]

Chapter 2&3 Vocabulary

tremulous: (of persons, the body, etc.) characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness. it's similar to vibratory, shaking, or quivering."The sky was brown with flying sand and grit. The wind rushed high over the hills with the sound of a tremulous wail, as if pushing through some fissure of rock, on a ridge beyond any Frex could see." - page 14

mirth: amusement or laughter. "The rest of the crowd, however, was not watching. They were howling with mirth at some other entertainment put on by the Clock Dragon." - page 17

palsied: any of a variety of atonal muscular conditions characterized by tremors of the body parts, as the hands, arms, or legs, or of the entire body. basically, it's a paralysis. "One was a fishwife, the other a palsied crone; they took turns feeling her forehead, peering between her legs, and stealing glances at the few beautiful trinkets and treasures Melena had managed to bring here from Colwen Grounds." - page 18

crone: a withered, witchlike old woman. "One was a fishwife, the other a palsied crone; they took turns feeling her forehead, peering between her legs, and stealing glances at the few beautiful trinkets and treasures Melena had managed to bring here from Colwen Grounds." - page 18

pipkin: a small, earthen pot. "They left a pipkin of water nearby, and under cover of the next squall they went squelching away, to find their sons and husbands and brothers, and berate and beat them if they were available, or bury them if not." - page 21

SIMILE! : a simile is comparing two or more things using the words "like" or "as." there is a simile contained in the following sentence comparing the color green to moss. from this simile, i can really picture Elphaba's type of greenish skin color. "It's green," he finally said. "Nanny, it's green as moss." - page 23. Another simile was found on page 24 when it read"green as sin."

mica: any member of a group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum with other bases, chiefly potassium, magnesium, iron, and lithium, that separate readily into thin, tough, often transparent, and usually elastic laminae. "The girl's eyes tracked her back and forth. They were brown and rich, the color of overturned earth, flecked with mica."

sanctioned: something that serves to support an action, condition, etc. also, it means authoritative permission or approval, as for an action. "She was lying through her teeth, but unlike Frex she believed that some lies were sanctioned by heaven." - page 25

unfettered: to free from restraint; liberate. "She would bite a hole through the basket if she was left unfettered." - page 26

buoyant: not easily depressed; cheerful or invigorating. "Often she sat listless and lonely, while Frex was off preaching, and she had found some comfort in giving passersby a simple meal and a buoyant conversation." - page 29

valise: a small piece of luggage that can be carried by hand, used to hold clothing, toilet articles, etc.; suitcase; traveling bag. "The next morning Nanny packed her valise." - page 30

Guys, I have a question- Who is this Time Clock Dragon? Is he actually a dragon? I'm so confused about who this character is. :[


-MONICA SHARMA :]

Chapter 1 Vocabulary

vehemence: intensity or forcefulness of expression; ferocity: the property of being wild or turbulent. "The feeling in her voice rose as the wind rose. She had a throaty vehemence, like someone arguing through the threat of impending tears." - page 3.

insinuating: calculated to please or gain favor; in an insinuating manner. "The Witch could not venture out in such a vicious, insinuating wetness." - page 4

perverse: turned away from or rejecting what is right, good, or proper; wicked or corrupt. "Today? That would be like you, perverse and inconvenient," said her husband, teasing her, standing at the doorway and look outward, over the lake, the fields, the forested slopes beyond." - page 6

extemporize: to sing, or play on an instrument, composing the music as one proceeds; improvise. "Melena heard Frex inside, beginning to extemporize, warming up, calling forth the rolling phrases of his argument, convincing himself again of his righteousness. How did that proverb go, the one that Nanny singsonged to her, years ago, in the nursery?" - page 8

woe: grievous distress, affliction, or trouble. "But she remembered this as a joke, fondly. Woe is the natural end of life, yet we go on having babies." - page 8

idolatry: excessive or blind adoration, reverence, devotion, etc. "What do you think I'm up against today? How can I convince my flock to turn away from the razzle-dazzle spectacle of idolatry? I will probably come back tonight having lost to a smarter attraction. You might achieve a child today. I look forward to failure." - page 10


blasphemously: uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane. "Be holy, and I'll be thinking of you- my backbone, my breastplate. And also try not to be killed."
The will of the Unnamed God," said Frex.
"My will too," she said blasphemously." - page 10




-MONICA SHARMA :]

HI EVERYONE!

OMG! Guys, I JUST wrote this WHOLE ENTIRE POST and then for some reason it wouldn't let me post it! UGGHHH! Now I need to rewrite this whole thing! THIS BETTER POST

ANYWAYS!

HI EVERYONE! I'm super excited to read Wicked! So here is our schedule and jobs!

RESEARCHER- Laura
SUMMARIZER- Gabby
QUESTIONER- Robin
LITERARY LUMINARY- Zoe
WORD WIZARD- Monica

SCHEDULLLEE TIMMMEEE!!!

By..... We should have read......
March 12 P. 1-71
March 19 P. 72-146
March 26 P. 147-223
April 2 P. 224-286
April 9 P. 287-362

WE SHOULD BE DONE WITH THE WHOLE ENTIRE BOOK BY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14TH! :)

***ALSO! We will post every weekend! ***

YAY! Can't wait! I will try really really hard to stick to the schedule! (I have issue with that lol)
ok BYE!

-Gabby :)

P.S If anyone really hates the pink backround, we can always change it :)