Thoughts on the Wicked Prologue

If you haven’t with you a copy of the Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, you can open up a new tab or go to the Google Books copy of it, available for free on the web. Of course, this is no the whole book- large sections are not included- but you get the whole Prologue “On the Yellow Brick Road,” so we’ll start there with our reading. Okay, now take it all in, Blog readers.

So what do you think of the Prologue?  If you were in a book store and picked up Wicked and flipped through the first few pages, you might bother to read the prologue right then and there in the isle way. Would you be apt to purchase the book, based on the Prologue?  The Wicked Blog thinks that this Prologue serves its purpose well. It introduces the major characters, introduces a small portion of the plot (getting the ruby slippers back) and generally gives a foreboding, trouble-on-the-way feel. The Witch doesn’t like Dorothy or her companions and wants to, at the very least, steal something from her. More obviously, the physical manifestation of the sense of dread and misgiving comes in the form of a storm that is quickly coming over the horizon. What will happen next? You’ll have to get the book to find out.

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Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2009

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