d Jordan Buttarazzi Mr. Tonelli ENG3U1F Monday‚ March 5‚ 2012 The Importance of Dorothy’s Companions in the Wizard of Oz Throughout Dorothy’s adventure from Kansas to the land of the munchkins‚ she must venture on a perilous journey accompanied by three important and helpful companions. Dorothy meets a Scarecrow without a brain‚ a Tin Man without a heart and a very cowardly Lion. Their journey experiences hardships and difficult times where all seems lost‚ but working together they
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classification of a fairy tales as demarcated from other forms of children’s literture. With the help of these distinctive structural and stylistic features‚ Frank L. Baum’s novel‚ “The Wizard of Oz” can be classified within the boundaries of the fairy tale. USE OF OUTSIDE WORLD (SOCIETAL COMMENTARY): “The Wizard of Oz‚” like so many fairy tales‚ naturally has cultural‚ social‚ and political undertones interwoven within the text. Virtually all of Baum’s characters and magical land pertain to specific
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importance of the lessons a journey may possess. I have chosen three texts that relate closely to the aspects of Journeys of Discovery. My first selected text is a poem called ‘Journey’ by Narendra Kuppan. My second chosen text is the movie‚ ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and my third text is the book‚ ‘Tomorrow When the War Began‚’ by John Marsden. These three texts are all related as they are about a person or a group of people undergoing their own personal Journey of Discovery. They also enhanced and challenged
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Historical Fragments Ray Huang Dr.Friedman US History 09/06/2014 The movie of The Wizard of Oz obviously missed many historical document‚ seeming much simpler and easier to understand than does the book. The movie conducts a message about friendship‚ adventure‚ and positive spirit to the audience. And a classical topic of the book‚ The Wizard of Oz‚ is fantasy‚ appealing the interest and attention of the kids. Certainly‚ the lost content in the movie is related to
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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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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 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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