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 represents
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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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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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Wizard of Oz In the “Wonderful Wizard of Oz” “L. Frank Baum” uses color to separate the three countries. For instance the colors are blue‚ yellow‚ and red for the three countries. “L. Frank Baum” also color coats the capital emerald city by giving it its color from its name. In the Magical Land of Oz things are assorted by colors‚ regarding to the four different countries. First‚ there’s the land of the Munchkins witch is blue. The land of the Munchkins is the Eastern region of the Land of Oz. This
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The challenge of drinking at least 40 oz. of water everyday was indeed a challenge at first. Since I wasn’t used to drinking so much‚ it was difficult for me to remember to drink and keep track of it. At some point‚ I had to force myself to drink even when I wasn’t thirsty. The first thing I noticed once I drank more water was a constantly full bladder. It felt like a burden to have to run to the restroom every half an hour. But on the other hand‚ it was a signal to me that my body was hydrated
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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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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 from
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in a film‚ in essence the film in its entirety including nondiegetic images. In The Wizard of Oz‚ the plot begins with Dorothy (Judy Garland)‚ a young farm girl from Kansas who dreams of escaping to ‘somewhere over the rainbow’ without troubles and torment for her dog Toto from a horrible neighbour Miss Gulch (Margaret Hamilton). During a tornado she is hit on the head and is transported to the World of Oz where she meets characters transformed from her Kansas life at home‚ meeting three companions
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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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