![]() ![]() ![]() The women horrifically discover though, that the child's skin appears inexplicably, green.įrex and Melena struggle with their daughter's odd skin color, keeping her in private much of the time. In a stupor, she delivers a healthy baby girl. They supply Melena with addictive pinobble leaves to dull the pain. Some elderly, local women arrive to aid with the birth. The clock, made up of multiple windows filled with puppets, like a complicated cuckoo clock, shows what observers assume to be future events.Īlone in a land were she has no friends Melena goes into labor. A cousin of Frex wrote to him about a sideshow type experience that sweeps through Oz. ![]() Despite the impending birth of his first child, he travels to preach against dangerous entertainment, specifically, the Clock of the Time Dragon. Frex, a minister of the religion of Unionist, constantly fears punishment for sin, both known and unknown. Frex and Melena, humble peasants in Munchkinland, welcome their first born, Elphaba, in the beginning of this novel. In this novel, Maguire explores possible motivations behind such a person. Many readers will remember the story of the Wicked Witch of the West. ![]()
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