The theme of this final section of the chapter if magic. There were many magical instances that happen within the chapter. First off the sisters begin to speak of Elphaba’s name. They believe that is has something to do with Saint Aelphaba of the Waterfall. They begin to tell her story. To make it short, she ate grapes, went behind the water fall, and woke up a century later. Then she did it again. When she went into town, all the boys gawked at her.
Nor and Irji bust in just at the best part, but their news is way more important the origin of a name. They have found Liir, and he is still at the bottom of the well. Poor Liir. They also think that he is dead. As it turns out Chistery was the one to find him. Good monkey.
Manek one of the people there make some interesting and fully false accusations about Liir wanting to go into the well. (What a punk brat kid!) When they get him out of the well, the sisters want Elphaba to use spells to awake him. However in a time of crisis, just as everyone else, Elphaba panics. (This is also known as the fight or flight tactic.) Elphaba does not use spells, so Nanny convinces her to do CPR, which is a blessing, because Liir awakens. A disappointing part of this chapter is when everyone finds out that Liir has no fixed place to sleep. (In Canada, that is the definition of homeless.)
After this confrontation, Elphaba begins to think about the life choices that she has made. She tough about lies and about death, which is one of the themes for this chapter, and she thought about something that Sarima told her; hot anger and cold anger.
“Warm and cold anger working together to make a fury, a fury worthy enough to use as a weapon against the old things that still needed fighting” (Maguire 286)
She also thinks about how warm and cold making an icicle, which could be used as a weapon. As it turns out, the specific icicle that she was fixated on, had dropped right that moment and drove right through Manek’s head killing him instantly.
“Liir survived, but Manek did not.” (Maguire 286)
The theme in this section of the novel is death. It is prevalent during the entire book, but mostly in this chapter. First off, Elphaba’s mother had died, as well as Ama clutch, Doctor Dillamond, Tibbett, and Fiyero. Now in this chapter, the sisters are speaking of an everlasting goddess, that has not died, meanwhile Liir is on his death bed. He has almost drowned and luckily is saved at the last minute. This chapter also mentions in the last paragraph of the book - and the paragraph is only five lines long, speak out about how Elphaba used magic, without knowing, to send an icicle to kill Manek. It had worked and now he is dead.
Maguire, Gregory. Wicked . New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. 406. Print. <http://books.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=wicked>.
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