The Jasper Gates of Kiamo Ko Part 3

This chapter is short but it does have a good amount of useful information. At first Elphaba gets her own room at Kiamo Ko. It is in a tower, with round stone walls. Hmm… Interesting… Anyway, moving on, it is now winter in the Land of Oz, an everyone knows what that means! It is Lurlinemas time. (Remember this is the Oz’s version of Christmas) The children are in good spirits, seeing that it is holiday time. The boys go off to cut down some trees, while Nor and Liir, stay behind and paint. They found the paper in Elphaba’s room. Liir does not know how to paint so, he leaves.

Then there is a conflict in the scene. Chistery, the monkey is loose in the kitchen! He is let loose when Nor went into Elphaba’s room to get paper. Elphaba is in a bad vicious mood when she sees how the people in the kitchen are treating her animal. (Animal Lover?) Nor, the brave little girl she is, takes responsibility for her actions and apologizes to Elphaba. She feels even worse after Elphaba scolds her about entering her room.

This holiday is relatively close to the human holiday Christmas, however there is no mention of a “Santa.” There are fairies instead. Their names are;
Lurline and Preenella. This is similar to the poem Twas the Night Before Christmas (Clarke Moore) The lines; “While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads” (Clarke Moore) This line does not mention any fairy, but it does reference dancing, which is what fairies tend to do.



Maguire, Gregory. Wicked . New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. 406. Print. <http://books.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=wicked>.

Clarke Moore, Clement. Ed. Twas the Night before Christmas. Print. <http://www.carols.org.uk/twas_the_night_before_christmas.htm>.