Improv Status

The final section of this chapter is most likely very important to this section of the book. It indicates that a change is coming and a possible time/setting change as well.

In this next section of the book I am looking forward to exploring how the relationship between Elphaba and Nanny have changed. Elphie is no longer a child, in fact she has her own child, so there will be a shift in their relationship.

I am also really curious as to what happened to Liir. The last that we heard of him, he was stuck in a well. Is he still there? I really hope not. He could have drowned or died of starvation. If he is still down there, one thing is for sure, his fingers will look like raisins.

Instead of answering a question or multiple, I thought that I would relate this status role change to a real life example. After-school I partake in a drama club called; Commotion. The purpose of this is to improve our way into creating a show that is a piece of art. We enact many different activities and the outcome of many , we sponsor, meaning we choose our favourite, and the ones we would like to see in the final show, and relate our show from there. In one of the activities, we had to choose a pose and another person would begin an improve scene. I was chosen as the person who would begin the scene. With my partner on the ground I felt as though I should have high status and chose the role of a police officer who just shot a criminal. My partner acted very well and was able to make me wan to help his get to his feet as I demanded, and once he was standing, stole my imaginary gun from my hands, and shot me. Now the role of the status is within the gun itself. The person with the gun was able to control the people without it. Just like in the novel, where people who have power are able to control everyone else.

I just thought that it is an interesting topic, and the instructors, always bring up that example of power and status roles/shifts.