A Sad Conclusion Leads to a New Beginning

This next part of the novel is called City of Emeralds. The picture on the cover is in black and white, and shows a man and a women, presumably naked, with the women on the bed, and the man undressing. The man for some odd reason is either sparkling or is sweating profusely. There is also a hint that these people are in a large city, because there are buildings visible from the window.

Some of the other questions that were mentioned in an earlier prediction blog, are going to be answered now.

My favourite part so far is…

My favourite part is the conflict between Elphaba and Glinda. I enjoy reading how they are opposite of what they are depicted as in the film. Although films are usually different. I enjoy learning how they act around each other and how their relationship is forming, breaking, and turning into a life-long bond.

I don’t understand…

I do not understand why the Animals are being treated as outlaws. They should have just as much right as any other being. Could this be the racial aspect in this setting?

If I could have lunch with the author, I would ask…

I think I would ask Gregory Maguire, what inspired him to write a re-make of the classic novel?

I was able to find a website online with almost the exact same question. Here is a link to it:

http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm/author_number/1051/gregory-maguire

His answer is: “
I was living in London in the early 1990's during the start of the Gulf War. I was interested to see how my own blood temperature chilled at reading a headline in the usually cautious British newspaper, the Times of London: Sadaam Hussein: The New Hitler? I caught myself ready to have a fully-formed political opinion about the Gulf War and the necessity of action against Sadaam Hussein on the basis of how that headline made me feel. The use of the word Hitler—what a word! What it evokes!

When a few months later several young schoolboys kidnapped and killed a toddler, the British press paid much attention to the nature of the crime. I became interested in the nature of evil, and whether one really could be born bad. I considered briefly writing a novel about Hitler, but discarded the notion due to my general discomfort with the reality of those times. But when I realized that nobody had ever written about the second most evil character in our collective American subconscious, the Wicked Witch of the West, I thought I had experienced a small moment of inspiration.” ("Book Browse")

There are still a few more questions, but it would be more beneficial to include them in later predictions.


"An Interview with Gregory Maguire ." Book Browse. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Oct 2011. <http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm/author_number/1051/gregory-maguire>.