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.