The movie Wizard of Oz is about a girl named Dorothy and her dog, Toto, get taken away in a tornado in Kansas. Dorothy goes on a trail called the Yellow Brick Road in Emerald City to meet a wizard and along the way she picks up a few friends. All of the character in the story are traveling along this Yellow Brick Road to find something for themselves. Dorothy wants to go back to Kansas. The scarecrow needs a brain. The tin man is wanting a heart and the cowardly lion wants courage. During the Westward

Dorothy Gale is a 12-year-old fictional character played by Judy Garland in the screen production of The Wizard of Oz in 1939. Dorothy is the protagonist in the novel and on screen and is most recognized character in The Wizard of Oz series. Dorothy and her small pet dog Toto reside in a one-room farmhouse in Kansas with her Uncle Henry and Aunty Em. In the film, Dorothy is a very sweet, adventurous, and kindhearted girl who loves her family, friends, and pet dog. She has dark brown and red hair

Quentin P. Taylor’s primary thesis in his article, "Money and Politics in the Land of Oz," is that “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by Frank Baum, was a symbolic story about the populist movement and many other things sweeping the Midwest in the 1890’s by using animation and the children audience, Quentin P. Taylor believed that Frank Baum used the story to cover up what he was actually writing about. The author gives countless evidence to support the thesis that he provided from different resources

The Wizard of Oz is a fantasy book where a girl named Dorothy experiences an unexpected adventure in her life. This book takes place in Kansas and the Land Of Oz where all the adventure starts. As a tornado strikes Kansas (the place where Dorothy lives along with her aunt and uncle), Dorothy, her dog, and their house all blow away as their house lands on the Wicked Witch of the East in the Munchkin Country, as it kills her. Not knowing in which world she is in, Dorothy only has one wish: going back

Michael Mangal 10/27/14 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a fictional adventure novel that was written by L. Frank Baum in 1902. This novel is about a young girl named Dorothy who was trying to find her way back home to Kansas after ending up in the World of Oz. However this girl’s journey was much more than a fantastical adventure, but symbolism for the Populist Party of this time period. The story is said to represents political and social issues during the 1890’s. Dorothy was meant to represent

The wizard of Oz tells the tale of an orphaned teenager named Dorothy. After a horrible encounter with her neighbor Miss Gulch, who tortures her dog, Dorothy begins to dream of life what her life might be like over the rainbow. Miss Gulch displeased with how the situation turned out, showed up with an order the following day to take Toto to the sheriff and kill him. However, Toto escapes from Miss Gulch’s confinement and returns to Dorothy where the two decide to run away from home without Miss Gulch’s

In L. Frank Baum uses colors throughout the novel The Wizard Of Oz to allegorize. Dorothy interacts with regions and characters with intentional The roles of the colors is to portray individual themes. The colors yellow, green, grey and blue represent counsel, pride, reality and friendship respectively. The color yellow or gold is used to resemble guidance and counsel. Dorothy in the beginning of her travels is instructed to follow the yellow brick road to get her greatest desire. The yellow brick

After reading the Wizard of Oz, I have found quite a lot of themes from the book. Here are the themes I am going to be mainly focusing on: 1) There is no place like home During a tornado in Kansas, Dorothy (the main character) gets transported into a completely different world from Kansas. The minute she arrives to the Land of the Munchkins, she doesn’t decide to socialize with others but on the other hand, she asks how she can get home. Even though the Emerald City and the Munchkin Country was