When I was a child‚ each evening my mother would read from the novels of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‚ by L. Frank Baum. The usual bedtime routine was filled with anticipation of that imaginary world of wonder‚ adventure‚ and excitement in which I would soon be enthralled. The once yearly-televised motion picture based on the story‚ contributed greatly to my love for the fairy tale. The music and bright colors in the film confirmed all the different images I envisioned while listening intently to my
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9R Chappell 8-9 12-14-10 The Odyssey and The Wizard of Oz The Wizard of Oz is like the Odyssey because both Dorothy and Odysseus are determined and anxious to return home. Odysseus and Dorothy both meet characters along the journey who help them and evil characters trying to not let them reach home. Good characters who give advice in the Wizard of Oz are the munchkins who show Dorothy where to go to get to the Emerald city to ask the wizard how she will be able to return home. Good characters
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interesting in the representation of gender in your chosen films. Gender roles are central issues within the musicals The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming‚ 1939) and Hairspray (Adam Shankman‚ 2007). The differences between the representation of males and females may‚ in part‚ be as a result of the shifting ideologies in the USA in two different historical periods. In the Wizard of Oz‚ the central protagonist (Dorothy Gale) is a female. At the start of the film‚ Dorothy is shown to be “in the way” of the
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1. Short summary of the film.- Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornado’s path and somehow end up in the land of Oz. Here she meets some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who everyone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friends their goals of a brain‚ heart and courage 2. The film’s genre. - Fantasy‚ Children’s novel 3. Major character’s conflict and change. - Dorothy only considers herself as an ordinary girl‚ but she is more. She liberates
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wrote this paper in High school. It got an A. With use of this essay cite works to "Kristin’s People Places and Things" Tewksbury‚ MA: Free paper Inc.‚ 1999.</center> <br> <br> <br>Lewis Carroll’s works Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There are by many people considered nonsense books for children. Of course‚ they are‚ but they are also much more. Lewis Carroll had a great talent of intertwining nonsense and logic‚ and therefore creating sense within
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a fictional tale that appeals to many children as they travel with Dorothy from her gray home in Kansas to the wonderful land of Oz. The story begins with the lead character Dorothy‚ who lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on their farm in Kansas. A horrible cyclone carries her and her dog Toto inside their home to the Land of Oz‚ where her home falls on the Wicked Witch of the East. She learns from the munchkins (citizens) that to return home‚ she needs to travel
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Peter Pan syndrome‚ is exactly how it sounds. It ’s a disorder that is derived from the novel Peter Pan written by J.M. Barrie that defines those who appear as an adult but their actions are quite childlike. The ‘Peter Pans’ of present society “see the adult world as very problematic and glorify adolescence‚ which is why they want to stay in that state of privilege”‚ according to Humbelina Robles Ortega‚ professor of the Department of Personality‚ Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the University
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children’s literature is maturation and grasping with adulthood. In keeping with this tradition‚ Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland presents a girl who transforms immensely from the bored little girl who can’t imagine reading a book without pictures to the mature adult described at the end of the novel. Throughout much of the novel‚ the reader witnesses Alice struggling with frequent‚ rapid changes in her body. While the repeated size changes in the book serve to illustrate the difficulties
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In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice‚ the novel portrays predominantly wealthy‚ Caucasian characters. There are no African American or other ethnicities present in the novel. Unlike Pride and Prejudice‚ however‚ Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is bursting with altogether unusually illustrated ethnicities. Although both were written before the 20th century‚ there is an obvious difference in the use (or lack thereof) of diversity and ethnicities. In Pride and Prejudice‚ all characters are Caucasian
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The Wizard of Oz‚ by L. Frank Baum tells the tale of a young girl Dorothy as she wanders through the land of Oz. In the original movie adaptation‚ Dorothy kills the Wicked Witch of the East causing the Wicked Witch of the West to avenge her sister by making Dorothy pay. The Wicked Witch of the West has become a common archetype for the definition of a “wicked witch” with her long nose‚ green skin‚ and black hat. Both the novel and movie portray the witch as an evil relentless character to be disliked
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