Scarecrow

After Miss. Adela Strangeworth’s roses were cut she lost her mind. The atmosphere in her little town became gloomy, dark, dull without much life anywhere. Every single plant started to shrivel up and die. All the people seemed fine and didn’t notice the hellish storm they had released in the form of Miss Strangeworth. For the longest time everyone in the town thought that Miss Strangeworth was just the person that lived in the town for all her life, what they didn’t know was that the town…

The moon was full and bright, this Halloween night. The spooks were out, giving everyone a fright. My brothers and I were tucked safely in bed, when we started to hear sound that filled us with dread. So, we crept to the window to peer outside, but what we saw, made us run back and hide. Below us were monsters and goblins galore and they were making their way to our front door! As quiet as mice we snuck down the hall and found ourselves in A Grand Monster Ball. The room was crowded with spooks…

The name Phoenix is significant because a phoenix is a mythical bird that is born out of fire and rises from the ash. Phoenix Jackson is an old black woman that began her life during a time of slavery and lived through the Surrender. She is extremely poor, but she is free. She has in a sense, been reborn from the ashes of the civil war and rebuilt her life. When she meets the hunter, a few things happen that are significant. He helps her out of the ditch and chases the dog away that made…

Thirdly, The Cowardly Lion is a character who supposed to possess the characteristic feature of a lion, king of the jungle, yet he describes himself as a “coward" (Baum 31) when Dorothy and her companions run across him in the forest. Cowardly Lion tells his story and how he does not manage to rule other animals because of his fear. Other characters who off to see the Wizard of Oz encourage him and he decides to accompany them to ask Wizard of Oz to give him courage. But before Wizard of Oz…

It was the big day, Campbell, Emma, Hayden, Naomi, and I were getting ready to go to Talladega Frights. Naomi, Emma, and I are the only ones who have ever when there before. Once we arrived at Talladega, Hayden looked in her pockets and found out that she had forgotten her money. Once her dad dropped it off we were on our way into the corn maze, then went down a huge slide. That's when it was time for the Haunted house. We have heard many rumors that it was very scary this year, and Hayden…

going to Kansas. “Dorothy did not say anything, for she was puzzled to know which of her two friends was right, and she decided if she could only get back to Kansas and Aunt Em, it did not matter so much whether the Woodman had no brains and the Scarecrow no heart, or each got what he wanted” (Baum 32). Dorothy is focused on her goal and nothing is going to stop her. She wants to help her friends, but if given the choice she would rather go to Kansas than…

She found a coat and inside that an emptiness, cold as ice.” (Welty 27). She dances with the scarecrow because she thinks it’s a ghost that symbolizes death. She is happy that death has not come for yet especially with her old age. A nickel plays an important part of the story. She finds the nickel that the hunter dropped and picks it up before…

Love Tonight" was at the top of the Billboard's charts. The song sold 15 million copies in 5 years. The band only spent two weeks working on the 1974 #1 album, Caribou (Schlesinger, 2008). In 1967, John and Bernie Taupin wrote their first song "Scarecrow" (Prono, 2015). "Something about the Way You Look Tonight" was a Top 10 hit featured in the 1997 album, The Big Picture (Hawkins, 2004). In 1980, John made an album called 21 at 33 which had the #3 single called "Little Jeannie" (Schlesinger,…

The title of the novel I chose to read for my independent novel study is “Dorothy Must Die”. We are guided through this modern twist on the original tale of “Oz” by Amy Gumm. Amy is a tough and independent high school student from a trailer park in Kansas. The story begins at Amy’s school in a poverty filled community in Kansas. She is often bullied by her classmates and when the story begins we see the severity of it. After an altercation with a pregnant girl she is sent home from school…

journey. As soon as they walked into the Wizard’s castle, they were overwhelmed by the amount of heat that rushed toward them. They were all sweating as they walked down the long hallway looking for the Wizard of Oz. “My straw is getting sticky!” said Scarecrow. Finally they heard, “I am Oz, the great and powerful. Who are you?” Although they all should have been scared, and of course the Cowardly Lion was, Dorothy was too distracted by the heat. She immediately asked, “Why is it so hot in…