Has any oneout there read Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West?

Question

I read this book months ago and now am doing a book reprt on it. I am having a hard time remembering the major events, especially after Elpheba leaves school. I also saw the play, which didn't follow the book exactly and I am getting the two mixed up. What I need is a basic synopsis to refresh my memory and haven't been able to find a good one online.

I am 23 and no longer in school, this is not for a grade. It is for an extracurricular activity. No one is helping me cheat here. I just need a synopsis to refresh my memory and help me seperate the events in the play from the ones in the book. I want to use wicked beacuse it is such a wonderfully imaginitive book and I know once I get started the report will just flow.

Thank you Jessica H. As you know it is too early for me to choose a best answer, but that one will be hard to beat. That is exactly what I needed to get my brain flowing and help me differentiate the occurences in the book from the ones in the play.

Answer 1

That's very reasonable to forget things about a book when you haven't looked at it in months. It is probably not the best choice for a book report, unless you're willing to put in some extra effort.

Why don't you go pick up the book and flip through it, and write down a 1-2 sentence summary of each of the chapters. That way, you'll be doing your own work instead of having someone else do it for you. When you do your own work and you earn a good grade, you know that you really earned that grade and you can feel proud!

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Sorry for the age mix-up. The spelling errors, the nature of the question (asking if anyone has read a bestselling book... um, yes?!), doing a book report, and the incapability to figure out to do a google for a synopsis definitely left me thinking this was a 14-year-old posting!

Answer 2

The only things I have to add to Jessica H's answer are:

- The Lion is the lion cub that was in the classroom on Fiyero's first day at Shiz and the Tinman is a woodcutter who was in love with one of Nessa's servants, so they both have 'vendetta's against Elphaba.

- The 'like Christmas' holiday is Lurlinemas.

- The whole business about the Grimmerie that Elphaba can sort of read but is in a 'different' language.

- The whole business of the green Elixir bottle that Dorothy takes back to the Wizard and his realization that he is Elphaba's father.





Another thing - if you liked Wicked, I suggest you read the sequel, 'Son of a Witch' which is about him, and on some level Glinda and Shell. And it introduces Liir's daughter, opening the way for a third book :o)

Answer 3

Elphaba grew to alter into worry-free with the aid of fact the depraved witch basically with the aid of fact she exchange into reclusive. and unsightly. Glinda exchange into alluring and wealthy. for that reason the diversities have been made with the aid of townspeople. I ought to re-study that e book to grant a extra effectual answer. It exchange into sturdy, although!

Answer 4

Ok so you're ok up to Elphaba leaving school. Well, after she and Glinda went to see the Wizard, she disappeared for five years and then Fiyero caught sight of her while in the Emerald City on business. He had gone into a chapel and went looking for Saint Glinda to look on the picture to see if it looked at all like the friend he had in school. While there, he saw Elphaba "praying". She tried to convince him that she wasn't who he thought she was, but he refused to be fooled. He followed her from the church to her hiding place over a warehouse. After several visits, the became lovers, until during Lumius (spelled wrong I'm sure, kind of like our Christmas), he was killed after following her to her "assassination attempt" and going back to the hide away. She was injured as well, and turned up on the doorstep of a Maunt house. Taken in, she became basically mute for a long time (nearly seven years) and while still injured and nearly comatose, gave birth to Fiyero's child Liir (although his parentage is neither confirmed or denied). She leaves the Maunts after seven years, intending to go to Fiyero's widow to unburden herself of her guilt. She's accompanied by Liir and goes by caravan across the terrain. During the trip, a natural ability toward sorcery is shown when pet bees attack the cook of the camp for being obnoxious and disagreeable to Elphaba. Along the road she collects the bees, a dog named Killjoy, a snow monkey and three crows given to her by a Princess *elephant disguised as a woman*. She continues on, finding the family of Fiyero, but not being allowed to tell the widow of her guilt (adultery and all that). Elphaba and Liir end up becoming fringe members of this royal family and she's called "Auntie" while there. It's during this time that the broom that the Sister Maunts sent with her shows that it can fly, she teaches the snow monkey to mimic speech and comes across a foreign and magical book. She in a sense becomes the "Witch" she is known as later on. After many years alone with this family, Nanny returns to her and takes over the rearing of Liir. A letter arrives from her father, Frex, and she takes the flying broom to see what her sister Nessarose is up to. Her sister has become a mixture of religious fanatism and sorceress and is both feared and followed. She declares a separation from the Emerald City and the Wizard and no longer needs anyone to help her stand tall because Glinda enchanted the shoes to help her. Elphaba gets a promise that when Nessa dies, the shoes are hers. She returns to Fiyero's family home to discover that they've been kidnapped by the Wizard's soldiers and only Liir and Nanny remain. During the next seven or eight years, she tries and fails to learn of their whereabouts and what their fate was. Also during this period she starts using her knowledge of life science to add wings to the snow monkeys. Word comes that a freak storm *tornado anyone?* dropped a house on her sister and the occupant of the house ended up with her shoes. Thus begins the search for Dorothy.

Answer 5

re-read it