Narrative Report on The Wizard of OZ Story and Plot When differentiating between story and plot in narrative film‚ we can identify the story as a series of all the events presented to us within the narrative‚ inclusive of all elements that have been overtly presented to us‚ as well as events that the viewer may infer or conceptualise. In contrast‚ the plot can be described as all the elements that are presented to us throughout the screen duration. That is everything that we see and hear and
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Annotated Bibliography Primary source Baum‚ L. Frank‚ and W. W. Denslow. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. New York‚ NY: Racehorse for Young Readers‚ 2017. Print This novel is a credible source as it is the official version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. this is a good source to gather quotes from to further support the points within the essay. Secondary Sources "Basic Color Theory by Kandinsky." N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 20 July 2017 This blog post cited a PDF and provided a link to Wassily Kandinsky’s colour
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Wonderful Wizard of OZ Metaphor Frank Baum‚ the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‚ claimed that his book was majorly a children story. Over time‚ his book would mark a major part of the American pop culture and was adapted into films to the delight of many people irrespective of their ages. Baum’s fairy tale would‚ however‚ be analyzed by to reveal that the book was actually a metaphor of the populist movement in the 1890s. As Taylor points out‚ the characters in the Wonderful Wizard of OZ closely
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somehow unfamiliar with the tale‚ here are the Spark Notes: Dorothy is a small-town Kansas girl who dreamed of life somewhere over the rainbow. She gets swept up in a tornado and dropped into a strange yet wonderful land called Oz. How did the author come up with the name Oz anyway? Baum said it came to him one day when he was staring – probably asking that question Ian shared concerning the ending time of class – at a set of filing drawers labeled A-G‚ H-N and O-Z. As a result‚ files O through Z
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If you choose easy children’s books‚ the stories might not be appealing to them‚ because the books are written for much younger children. If the pupils are bored by the story‚ it might have the same effect as if they are unable to cope. „The Wizard of Oz“ is a very famous‚ American story every child should know. It might not be found in a classic literature canon but for younger language learners‚ “who are not yet ready for [classic literature]‚ [it] would be counter-productive and turn them off
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Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz include treatments of the modern fairy tale (written by L. Frank Baum and first published in 1900) as an allegory or metaphor for the political‚ economic and social events of America in the 1890s. Scholars have examined four quite different versions of Oz: the novel of 1900‚ the Broadway play of 1901‚the Hollywood film of 1939‚ and the numerous follow-up Oz novels written after 1900 by Baum and others. The political interpretations focus on
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the Wizard of OZ The Wizard of OZ is an allegory some say‚ written by Frank Baum during the turnoff the 20th Century. There are many people who have made numerous comparisons between the political climate of the time‚ the characters and themes of the book. Initially a children’s novel‚ the book has come to mean so much more for so many more. For this project you will research the Populist movement and compare what you find to the research you complete on the true meaning of the Wizard of OZ. Each
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The inspiration for L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz and the following thirteen Oz books is believed to be about the inability to escape‚ particularly for Baum‚ the inability to escape the rapidly advancing technology during the 20th century. The technologies that are focused on in particular in The Wizard of Oz are those of electricity‚ machines‚ the body‚ and domesticity. The city of Oz is based on the White City‚ Chicago‚ and how both are built around the idea of beauty and stability‚ but cover
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In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‚ the author‚ L. Frank Baum uses colors to symbolize a variety of things. When he wrote his story he probably had a specific plan in regards to what color was going to symbolize what. Colors can be used to symbolize a variety of things like the mood of the story‚ a character’s feelings‚ the temperature in the story‚ or even be symbolic of something in the real world. It would be left up to the reader’s interpretation of the story to see if they were able to uncover what
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Although adversity may reveal ones fate or fortune; a friend would show his true side in the time to come. In the movie the "Oz: The Great and Powerful" downfall and redemption play a major role in the development of each character. At the beginning of Oz the great and poweful it seems as Oscar is at rock bottem. During Oscars magic show things dont go as expected when a paralized girl asks him to make her walk instead of telling her that he is a illusion a fake he lets her cry and just leaves
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