The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The book, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954, and the movie, The Maze Runner, was produced in 2014. Although these two works were developed sixty years apart, they have much more in common than just being dystopian fiction. The Maze Runner, is the movie I chose for this compare and contrast essay. Throughout this essay, I will be talking about the various similarities and differences this book and movie have. The Maze Runner, was originally a book published in 2009 by author…

Green Town, Illinois is a small town where where life for Will and Jim is extremely mundane. However, on a night in late October, they are called to something much greater when the carnival comes to town. In the novel Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, it is up to Will Halloway, Jim Nightshade and Charles Halloway to save the town from the carnival. In Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury uses character archetypes to help the characters overcome their fears and weaknesses…

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 wonderful things he does We're off…

novels. One of his most famous works - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - is often known for its vibrant color. It plays an important role in symbolizing various characters and settings. He makes it known that there is purpose to his colors.…

In the movie, The Wizard of Oz, the protagonist is Dorothy and the antagonist is Dorothy herself and her not appreciating home and what she has. The type of conflict is person versus self. The actual problem is that Dorothy wants to go “over the rainbow” or she isn’t seeing and appreciating what she has. She is blind to her blessings. The reader sees this in the initial incident when she is worried about Toto and Ms Gulch, she is singing about some faraway place where all her problems will be…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz area testament to the talent and imagination of both L. Frank Baun. Their use of color helped shape the tale of Dorothy, the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow and cowardly lion along with the rest of the characters in the land of Oz. She used five different colors. One of the color that used in the novel is red. Red is the color of blood, greed, death. It is also frequently associated with Nessa's shoes is indeterminate in the novel. the shoes are also described in the terms of…

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…

how to correctly use a lie and that using too many lies is not necessary for survival. Baum does this by having the Wizard in his story lie so that he can be accepted by those who live in OZ and then showing how that has trapped the Wizard unless he leaves OZ. Baum also has the Wizard tell a lie as he leaves OZ and because of that, the Wizard could either be sparing those who live in OZ or he could just be unable to stop lying after he has grown used to it. The next character that is used to…

in the mind that are not perceived through senses such as sight, hearing, or other senses” (Wikipedia). According to Frank L. Baum, author of the wonderful Wizard of Oz “the imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, invent, and therefore to foster civilization” While, this may have been true in the time the Wizard of Oz was written, but currently this is no longer the case. Children today do not have enough time to use their imaginations because of…

L.Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, is a very well written and detailed novel that was published on May 17, 1900. Throughout the novel Baum uses many colors to describe emotions, feeling and also to create a certain specific kind of setting. Color play a major role in this novel; it sets the mood and the scenery. Throughout the novel color symbolizes many things throughout the novel. In the novel Baum uses colors a lot due to its importance to the novel. He uses color such as green…