Ruby slippers

In Victor Fleming’s film, The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy heavily relies on the advice given to her from the other characters she encounters on her journey back to Kansas. However, not all advice she receives is beneficial or truthful. In many instances, Dorothy is given information from people she trusts, such as the Wizard or Glinda, that is blatantly perfidious. By applying Steven McCornack’s Information Manipulation Theories, we can understand The Wizard of Oz as a description of the purpose of…

article, Money and Politics in the Land of Oz. In his article Taylor concludes, that when it comes to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, there is more to the story than meets the eye. Many of those who only watched the movie, remember Dorothy for her ruby-red slippers, defeating the wicked witch of the East, and reminding viewers that there is no place like home. Taylor offers an alternative approach to this cult classic.…

Dorothy. Mirana said. I came from Kansas. A few years ago, there was a tornado that picked up my house. My house land on the world calls Oz. I accident killed a witch and make her sister angry. The good witch of the North Glinda, give me the ruby slippers. Glinda told me the only way to go home is to go to the wizard and he would help me go…

Love can be defined as a strong affection for individuals arising out of kinship or personal ties. Love is so powerful it can change natural law. Family is defined as a group of people living under the same roof and under one head. In some selections, characters go through certain journeys to find love from their family. These two selections you would think that they are not similar but in reality they actually are through love. The two selections are The Wizard of Oz by Victor Fleming and…

Scarecrow wanting a brain, a Tin Man wanting a heart, and a Cowardly Lion who wants courage. The wizard asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West to earn his help. In the end, Dorothy made her way back home using her ruby slippers. There are many characters in this movie with many functions. Dorothy is quite the heroine in this movie. She is a protagonist who completes her quest of returning home without getting harmed. Along the way, she has mentors. Her primary…

“Follow the Yellow Brick Road, follow the Yellow Brick Road.” The film The Wizard of Oz is not only a beloved classic of motion picture, but also a model of Buddhist ideas, values, and ethics. The story begins on a farm in Kansas in the early 1900’s. Dorothy lives with her Aunt and Uncle. Miss Gulch, her neighbor, hits Dorothy’s dog Toto resulting in Toto biting her. Miss Gulch takes Toto on her bike to be euthanized by the sheriff. Toto jumps out of the basket and runs back to Dorothy…

The Wizard of Oz by Victor Fleming is a source of values to kids in the 90s generation. The film is about a young orphan girl named Dorothy Gale who lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry in the middle of nowhere in Kansas. Dorothy dreams to go “over the rainbow” after her nasty neighbor, Miss Gulch, hits Dorothy’s dog Toto causing Toto to bite her. Moments after, Miss Gulch shows up with an order from the sheriff to put her dog down because of the said incident. Escaping Toto runs back to…

As the conversation goes on, Dorothy states that she has been sent by the Good Witch and the doorman doesn’t believe her and the Scarecrow thinks up a marvelous way to prove Dorothy’s worth to see the Wizard. He tells the doorman to look at the ruby slippers of the Wicked Witch of the East and the doorman automatically lets them in. This is yet another one of the feats that show the viewer how smart the Scarecrow actually is, even without a brain. Lastly, at the end of the quest to kill the…

seems odd that he used glass slippers, which are mostly transparent, rather than the colorful golden slippers of tradition. Earlier films have changed the color of traditional items to emphasize them, but they usually choose a brighter hue. For example, in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, the shoes Dorothy wears are ruby, a bright color that looks wonderful on a screen; however, in the novel the slippers are silver. The director made the decision to make the slippers red to emphasize the use of…

air balloon back to Kansas, leaving Dorothy behind. Glinda, the kind hearted witch in the story, comes to aid Dorothy as she tries to get back home. Glinda tells her that she could have gone home much earlier, just by clicking the heels of her ruby red slippers together. But it wouldn’t have worked because in order to get back home, Dorothy had to realize that she was very unappreciative. She had an epiphany that she had everything she needed, even if life wasn’t as easy as she wanted it to be.…