Title: Wicked Author: Gregory Maguire Genre: Fiction Quotation: “Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.” Would recommend to: anyone who understands that there are two sides to every story. Throughout my high school career, I spent a lot of time in the backs of prop closets. I was the typical theater nerd, made even worse by the fact that I preferred to be behind the scenes working on the technical crew rather than center stage. Because of my love for stage-life, I knew quite a bit about plays, including “Wicked”. You’d be hard-pressed to find a handful of teenage girls that don’t know about the popular play that originally starred Kristen Chenoweth as…
Something Wicked This Way Comes
I finished “Wicked” a couple days ago and here are my thoughts. 1. I want to see the play again. I saw the play when I was a junior in high school and absolutely loved it. The book was really similar to the play while also incorporating more complicated plot lines and themes. All the characters were the same and the basic underlying story was there, there was just more detail and added backstories, which I really enjoyed reading. 2. You forget about people’s differences in the pages of a book. It’s a well-known fact that the main character of “Wicked” (Elphaba) is green. She’s the finest definition of a…
