As a child, the narrator and Hanna create an imaginary monster named Ogan Veen. Imaginary playmates are all right at a young age, but for her to become an adult and still believe in something strongly enough that it affects her children is not. Imagination is key to becoming a respectable adult when it is in the right quantities. Overall, imagination affects the narrator’s life in a negative way. Symbols and imagery accompany the narrator through her tale and foreshadow the severity imagination can have.…
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum, who favored bimetallism greatly focused on the primary matter, that being the Free Silver movement, which caused a great impact to the nation. The Wizard of Oz is an allegory of the political and economic environment of the Populist era because it resembles a story that can be interpreted to reveal a political movement through the characters,setting, and certain items and main ideas that were displayed in the book. In the Wizard of Oz a character that relates to the Populist Movement is the Scarecrow. The Scarecrow depicts the hardworking farmers in the midwestern region who for years suffered from mistreatment and were looked as lower individuals.…
As Dorothy arrives back home a tornado blows in and picks up the house, this is when her trip to the Land of Oz begins. Once safe and grounded in Munchkinland, Dorothy begins to seek a way back to her home in Kansas; she finds that in order to go back she will need to follow the yellow-brick road and find the great and powerful Wizard of Oz. Along her travels, Dorothy meets several new characters who resemble people she knows back in Kansas, each fulfilling the roles of protagonist or antagonist depending on Dorothy’s personal view of them. Every scene is displayed in chronological order and the story is quite simple, which makes it very easy for the viewer to lose themselves in the…
The eleventh stage of the hero’s journey is resurrection. The resurrection is the hero faces a final test. In the The Wizard of Oz, the hero didn’t have to face a final test before returning back home. The final phase of the journey back home, the hero found out how to go back and went directly to the ordinary world. Characters who have to go through this stage are going to be determined to overcome the final test because all they want from the beginning is to go back to their ordinary world.…
“I want to be just like Dorothy when I grow up,” I exclaimed at the age of three. Immediately, my parents burst out in laughter. At that age, becoming Dorothy and living out the Wizard of Oz seemed like a great idea, no matter how ridiculous it sounded to my parents. I would get to wear my hair in beautiful braids, have a cute little dog, loyal companions, and strut along the yellow brick road in my ruby red slippers, tackling every challenge that came my way. Becoming Dorothy Gale was my dream.…
She begins her journey by traveling by boat from Ireland to New York. Her name at that point in the story, the name her parents gave her, is Niamh Power. Throughout the story her name changes multiple times. This is because she went through a traumatic fire that she was told killed everyone in her family. Each time her name is changed so does her identity and the version of herself that she realizes she has become.…
Namely, Flannery O’Connor is known for her southern gothic style and her sense of religious morbidity. O’Connor uses persistent themes of dishonesty and mockery to portray religious righteousness and the downfall of the phony throughout the majority of her short stories. In “Greenleaf”, “A Good Man Is Hard to find”, and “Good Country People” O’Connor uses religion to highlight the good and bad within society, which is reflected upon each character through deception and irony. ggggggIn “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” O’Connor uses The Misfit as a symbol of morality to highlight the Grandmother’s religious deception.…
The company in the Wizard of Oz band together to reach the Emerald City in search of guidance and help. On their way to have an audience with the Wizard both times, they all exemplify qualities that are for the betterment of others and ultimately find qualities in themselves they didn’t believe were there. Scarecrow is the one amongst the group that figures out how to get out of adverse situations which is a testament to his intelligence. The Tin Man is the most caring member of the group and cries often showing he does indeed have a heart.…
Presented by Jackson High and Hollywood “The Wizard of Oz” is a story that followed Dorothy and her adventures in Oz as she searches for a way back home. Along the way she meets several people who are looking for a solution for their problems as well. They run into obstacles along the way but with the help of Glinda, the good witch she manages to leave Oz and return to Kansas. The musical was filled with amazing props and effect, which improved the overall show. When Dorothy lands in Kansas she meets Glinda, the good witch, and the munchkins.…
As people live on to be 70 to 80 years old they carry memories from their childhood days till they die. Many memories can shape them in a high-minded way or in an inadequate way. “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Flannery O 'Connor, Granny Weatherall faced multiple hardships in her lifetime up that she cannot forget. The results she received made Granny Weatherall not rely on anybody to help her out because she took control over her life. While in “A good man is hard to find” nameless grandma came from a childhood where all people gave and received “respect”.…
A black and white picture is shown of a young Dorothy at approximately eight years old. She has short, dark hair in a bob-style haircut, with a flat round hat, which seems to be defying gravity in its slanted position on her head. The slide fades into a new photograph of adult Dorothy, with her hair pulled back into a…
Jacey Choy and Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, authors of “Red Cranes” and “The Firefly Hunt,” respectively, both write about characters similar in age, personality, and culture; however, the authors take different approaches in developing and presenting their characters to the reader. While their characters share a youthful, energetic, and curious personality, Choy and Tanizaki use several different methods to develop such characters over the course of their stories. While Choy uses Mie’s interactions with supporting characters to develop Mie’s characters, Tanizaki instead focuses on Sachiko’s feelings, worries, and thoughts. In “Red Cranes,” Choy’s description of Mie’s interactions with her father and mother form the basis of her character development.…
The authors work together to demonstrate the complex nature of childhood, and the ways in which the characteristics of a child protagonist affect and determine their specific fate in a text. For instance, Perrault identifies the inexperience of Little Red Riding Hood as the reason for her ill fated death in his…
Dorothy’s character is portrayed as a sweet young girl and the image of tradition and idealistic moral values in the film. As mentioned before, Dorothy is from a farm in Kansas where dreams seem limited, giving her the desire of escaping to a better place where she wouldn’t have to worry about Toto’s safety. While Auntie Em is busy with the duties of the farm, Dorothy is pestering Auntie Em with her worries about Miss Gulch taking Toto away. With more concerning things in mind, Auntie Em brushes Dorothy away by saying, “Now, Dorothy, dear, stop imagining things. You always get yourself into a fret over nothing.…
The Wizard of Oz is a story of a girl named Dorothy and her pet dog named Toto. The two become lost when a cyclone carries them away, from their home in Kansas, to the beautiful, enchanted, magical land of Oz. Dorothy and Toto need help in getting back home. Along the way, and in so doing, they make enemies with the Wicked Witch of the West. And they make friends with the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion.…