Personal+Review

This story has a powerful message that does not only go with Christmas time. It has the moral of kindness and charity toward all. I enjoyed this book and it was interesting contrasting the book to the movie I had previously seen. An example of this would be the figure of the Ghost of Christmas past. In the movie it a woman but in the book it is something like a floating orb with a head. Also reading this along with //A Prayer for Owen Meany// helped alot with the symbolism and literary devices. Reading both at the same time helped me look at the story in a different way than I had before. Before I read //Wicked,// I went to New York and saw the broadway version. Being such an iconic musical I figured I had to read the book it was based off of. Even though the musical is said to be based off Gregory Maguire's //Wicked//, there is very very little that is actually similar. Besides the character names, nothing is the same. It was like rading something completely new. //Wicked// puts a dark spin on the story of //The Wizard of Oz// and makes you think about the characters and the story in a different way. Putting the story into a different perspective makes the reader judge for themselves what is actually true.