The Wizard of Oz

Wish You Were Here is a suspenseful story about how Dorothy, the main character, bought a gnome and discovers the mystery behind it. Each of the characters appeared played an important role in the development of the story. There are 3 main characters: Dorothy, Norman, and Norah. Dorothy is a very special character than characters in other stories, she doesn't have qualities most of the characters would have. For example, curiosity. Most characters in stories would be curious in this situation…

I met *Dorothy in August when I began interning this past summer. Dorothy is African American and I can only assume that she is homeless as her clothes are unusual or dirty and her hair seems like it has not been combed or washed in a while. During group she almost always wants to volunteer to read first and if she is not volunteering to read she is wiping down the tables while the other clients are reading. What’s intriguing about Dorothy is that when she is not talking to herself she…

Scarecrow(Master of Fear) Imagine your deepest darkest fears coming alive! Scarecrow also known as Jonathan Crane is a villain in American comic books. Scarecrow's is mostly a adversary of Batman and Robin. Scarecrow was created in the fall of 1941 by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. In fact he was one of Batman's earliest foes. First things first is Scarecrows origin. Jonathan Crane was a psychology professor who had gotten rejected by all the educators because of the attire he wore. Crane was…

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 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…

Leon, is the Black version of the original movie The Wizard of Oz (1939). The live performance starred Shanice Williams, Ne-Yo, Uzo Aduba, Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, Common, Elijah Kelley, David Alan Grier, Amber Kelly, and Stephanie Mills. Although this show has previously been criticized because of the apparent “all-Black cast,” most people who make this statement do not realize that The Wiz has always been the black version of The Wizard of Oz. The original Broadway musical came out in…

true. You may know this song from somewhere ‘‘over the rainbow’’. The wizard of oz! THe wizard of oz, is a movie which thousands of people have seen and loved, are so many sides of myself, ARe you ready to be swept of your feet and go on this delightful adventure we’re…. off to see the Wizard The wonderful Wizard of Oz We hear he is a whiz of a wiz If ever a wiz there was If ever, oh ever a wiz there was The Wizard of Oz is one because Because, because, because, because,because Because of the…

Although there are many good examples of this within the book, Ozma, Dorothy and Polychrom are 3 of the best examples of how deep the reader really has to look into the characters. A character the readers might be fooled by is the character and ruler of Oz, Ozma. In the first book, Dorothy Must Die, Ozma stumbles upon Amy when she is disguised as the maid, Astrid, in the emerald city, more specifically in Dorothy’s castle and home (Paige 180). When Amy does meet Ozma, she ends up thinking Ozma…

americans and other people to get more workers. In this paper today, i will talk about the similarities, differences and themes from the devil’s arithmetic and the movie devil’s arithmetic. Some similarities from the book and the movie are: the wizard of oz allusion, hannah character was included, man vs society, and man vs self. There are a lot of differences from the movie and the book but here are a few, rivka is related to hannah in the movie, yitzchak reuven and tzipporah aren’t included in…

Although they both declare a need to flee their home, and to start over, they decide against it. From The Wizard of Oz, there is of course the most famous line, “There’s no place like home.” But Dorothy goes as far as saying, “I know that if I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there…