informed their creation of Oz” (Larson 373). These two statements alone are just a couple of examples of how many people were in awe of what they saw at the fair in Chicago that year, and many of these witnesses became some of the most influential and inspiring people in American history; Walt Disney is one such man who needs no introduction due to his lasting legacy and L. Frank Baum wrote one of the most beloved children’s book series set in his fictional land of “Oz”, and the Emerald City…
The road of yellow brick is an element in the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, with additional such roads appearing in The Marvelous Land of Oz and The Patchwork Girl of Oz. The 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, based on the novel, gave it the name by which it is better known, the Yellow Brick Road (it is never referenced by that title in the original novel). In the later film The Wiz, Dorothy has to find the road, as the house was not deposited directly in front of it; in the novel…
The lady or the Tiger. The man’s hands were trembling so much he thought they would unscrew off. He was so scared he thought he might even have a heart attack. He went to walk toward the right door. When he went to put his hands on the door handles, they felt cold and were made out of metal. He hesitated if he should open the right door or go to the left and open that one. The king finally roared at him, “if you do not open one of those doors in the next five minutes I will have you thrown in…
The Story of The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz We start in the midst of Kansas in the United States of America, on a warm cloudy day. Where there was a girl named Dorothy, at which she walked home from high school every day with a couple of other girls in her class. And in her community this was not uncommon, there was a lot of the kids that were all so walking home from her school. Usually, she walks with her friends, but she felted that she wanted to walk alone. She started to walking and she was…
Black Tuesday signified the first catastrophic event in a series to come initiating the Great Depression which latest from 1929 to 1939, marking the deepest and longest economic downturn the Western world has ever seen. Not only did this spark several fundamental government programs that still exist today, but it signified a shift in literature and augmented its growth. Prior to the Great Depression, novels telling of adventure, free spirits, and politics were popular amongst communities. This…
I first saw The Wizard of Oz on television when I was six years old and fell in love with it and have loved it ever since. The special effects in this movie hold up to this day! Which I find absolutely amazing. I have never ever grown tired of watching it. Have now lost count how many times I’ve watched this truly WONDROUS film! The Wizard of Oz is as visually exciting and emotionally stirring today as it was when first released in 1939. It’s the most famous and beloved family movie of all time…
“The Wizard of Oz” is a 1939 classic film featuring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, and directing them all would be the great Victor Fleming. Victor Fleming’s classic film is about a young girl, named Dorothy, who lived with her aunt and uncle on their Kansas farm. A wealthy and nasty neighbor, Miss Gulch, are in conflict with Gale family regarding Dorothy’s dog Toto. Miss Gulch accused Toto of chasing her cat once more and biting her leg. After Dorothy had stolen…
L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz was one of the most important movies of its time, capturing the eyes of the young and old with bright color and lively songs. But behind the bright green lights of Oz, were real people put in real danger. Between an unsafe set, dangerous makeup, and generally unpleasant and unenjoyable conditions, filming The Wizard of Oz was anything but magical bubbles and sparkling ruby slippers for the Hollywood stars of Oz. On the set of The Wizard of Oz there were multiple…
The representation of a New Religious Movement can be seen throughout the movie “The Wizard of Oz” (Dir. Victor Fleming and George Cukor, 1939). This can be displayed through numerous aspects, such as the mystic symbolism in the film, the ideologies of the witches, and the setting of the plot. Many of the films that we see on a daily basis…
Dorothy taps her heels together three times and says to herself there’s no place like home. All of this happens because Dorothy ends up in Oz. The exposition starts out with Dorothy and her dog Toto coming out of the house very confused and surprised at where she could be. The major conflict in the Wizard of Oz during the play is that Dorothy ends up in the unknown place and wants to get back to Kansas. This conflict is stated throughout the play, but the Witch of the West had Dorothy, Tin Man,…