~*~::{Reading Blog #2: Wicked}::~*~

For my second book choice, I thought I would analyze the book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.  This book follows the Wicked Witch of the Wests' side of the story of the Wizard of Oz and Dorothy and her story.  You learn through the story why she is green, why she doesn't like water, why she is hated by everyone, and how she is connected to the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow.  

Now, having read this book already, I knew I loved it.  I went back and read the last chapter (which is more like a section...) and it really made me sad.  Throughout the story, you begin to love the Wicked Witch (Elphaba) because she really is a wonderful person that tries to be good, just having all of her good deeds fail in the process making it seem like bad things.  (Good intentions gone wrong...)

The last chapter is all about the finale of The Wizard of Oz and the melting scene.  How this was described was just phenomenal.  If you connected with the Elphaba, this scene tore your heart out. 

"...she hurled the water at the Witch.  An instant sharp pain before the numbness.  The world was floods above the fire below.  If there was such a thing as a sould, the soul had gambled on a sort of babtism, and had it won?

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation. " (Maguire 403 "Wicked")

This whole page and the following pages talk about her life flashing before her eyes and all

the people she has hurt with her good intentions.  

This is the one book which I have read numerous times and still get emotional when it

gets to the part about her dying.  

RIP ELPHABA