The Third Wish is a play based on the fairy tale structure where a character is granted three wishes, and things wind up going very wrong. In this delightful twist of a three-wish tale, Mr. Peters saves the Forest King, who happens to be in the form of a swan, and is granted wishes as a reward.
Frayer Model Vocabulary for The Third Wish by Joan Aiken
Storyboard Text
Definitions
ex·tri·cate ˈekstrəˌkāt/ verb free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty
"He was trying to extricate himself from official duties"
Quote from Text
"Mr. Peters ran down the hill and as he neared the bushes he saw something white among them which was trying to extricate itself; coming closer he found that it was a swan that had become entangled in the thorns growing on the bank of the canal."
extract, free, release, disentangle, get out, remove