Comparing Wizard Of OZ: Movie And Book

Decent Essays
Steven Wen

US History

Block 5A

09/10/2014

The difference between “The Wizard of OZ” Movie and

Book

The first and might the biggest different is that in the movie,the land of

OZ is just Dorothy’s dreaming,but in the book,the land of OZ is a real place

and she really traveled to that land.The movie show the story as the dream

which Dorothy is having,and also the people in her life was showing up as

the characters in the dream.In the book,the writer make readers believe that

Dorothy’s trip to OZ is real,not the creation by Dorothy’s mind.

The second different was Dorothy’s shoes,Dorothy's ruby red shoes might

probably people remembered most from “The Wizard of OZ”.In the movie

they mad the shoes red,but actually in the book,the shoes is silver
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I suppose I was born that

The last difference between “The Wizard of OZ” Movie and Book is

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