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A Wicked Impact
My feature writing classes are working on writing a critical review–creatively. I am posting this review as an example for them. Plus, I don’t think I ever showed this to my mother. Love you, Mom. I was five years old when I first experienced the Wicked Witch of the West. It was a rainy day, and my mother decided to take my friends and me to a matinee at the movies. MGM had just re-released “The Wizard of Oz” in theatres, and my mother, a true “movie buff” by every definition, thought this would be a great idea. Little did she know at the time how much those particular 101-minutes,…
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Choices: In Life, Literature, and Wicked
When Jacob Jankowski decides to stow away on a circus train in Water for Elephants, his choice alters the course of his life. When Miss Skeeter decides to involve “the help” as sources for a book she decides to write in The Help, that choice affects all of their lives. When Ebenezer Scrooge decides to take the painful and frightening advice of three spirits, his life, and the lives of others, are changed from that point forward in A Christmas Carol. Choices. We make them every day. Choices such as whether to add a stick of butter to our bread, to water the flowers, to make a run to the…
