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Student Name:____Amanda Stevenson________________________________________________________ Book and Movie Comparison/Contrast Guide (p. 2) Similarities Differences Plot Events: Mags’ death book- In the book Finnick, Katniss, Peeta, and Mags are running away from the poisonous fog. Finnick is carrying Mags. Peeta gets hit by the fog and can no longer run. Finnick gives Mags to Katniss and carries Peeta. Katniss tries to carry Mags but, she falls. Finnick can’t carry both Mags and Peeta. Mags…

Gregory Maguire’s novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, is a rework of the classic novel, The Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum. The novel aims to reveal the other side of Oz; the true side that the first novel masked. Munchkinland is no longer the peaceful place that we are accustomed to, but rather it is now full of political upheaval. The Wizard in Wicked has managed to usurp the throne and instill his own totalitarian regime. One important political issue…

The Wizard of Oz written by Frank Baum uses a lot of color description to allow the reader to picture the location that Dorothy is in. It starts with the gray land, gray sky, gray houses that are all around in Kansas were the story starts. It allows a vision of a storm coming, stormy weather. Dorothy's home is about to be hit by severe storms. When Dorothy wakes up after the cyclone, the skies are bright, patches of green and green banks. She meets men and women in blue and white…

2016, Mark Platt Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt, and David Stone collaborated and did a production of “Wicked,” originally by Gregory Maguire. Joe Mantello directed the musical. Musical Directors include both P. Jason Yarcho and Dan Micciche. Main choreographer, Corinne McFadden Herrera, conducted the dance arrangements. The play begins with Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, born with green skin and rejected from society. She meets the popular and spoiled Glinda, the…

president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. Toto, Dorothy’s dog, has been speculated to resemble average Americans. In the beginning of the movie, Dorothy’s house gets enveloped in a cyclone before being taken to “Munchkin Land” and crushing the Wicked Witch of the East. The cyclone has been compared to the free silver movement, in which farmers wanted silver to remain in the monetary system in order to be able to pay off their debts, resulting in a “political storm” of sorts. One of the…

readers understand better. Although the Munchkins wore the color blue, this symbolizes the Land of the Munchkins. Their houses were blue and everything else was blue too. They were small, short animals who did whatever they were told to do by the wicked witch of the East, who had died from Dorothy house which had fallen on…

filmed in daylight, except for the short time when Dorothy and her entourage travel to the castle of the Wicked Witch of the West. There, all the filmed events occur at night, in darkness. It is obvious to the audience watching the movie that the mood has drastically changed. In fact, The Wizard of Oz's mise-en-scene corresponds with the different lighting. While in the company of the Wicked Witch, Dorothy encounters a strong contrast between the costumes, props, and scenery. The characters…

Exposition: Eighteen year olds Eadlyn and Ahren are twins, but Eadlyn was born first. Naturally, Ahern would be the rightful heir to the throne, but their parents Maxon and America, want to change the law and establish Eadlyn as the next ruler of Ille`a. Maxon and America also have two other sons, fourteen years old Kaden and ten year old Osten. Maxon has eliminated the castes, which was a way to differentiate among the people. The next morning, after Eadlyn wakes up, she goes to see her mother.…

Kansas is where she belongs. In the initial incident, Ms. Gulch, the “witch” that lived in Kansas, took Toto, Dorothy’s dog, away from her. Dorothy then got very upset and sang a song about somewhere “over the rainbow” where dreams come true and problems melt away. Dorothy thought that she should live somewhere else, so she ran away to find Professor Marvel because she thought he could take her where she wanted to go. Later, a tornado takes Dorothy’s house to Munchkin Land, which then leads her…

The road of yellow brick is an element in the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, with additional such roads appearing in The Marvelous Land of Oz and The Patchwork Girl of Oz. The 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, based on the novel, gave it the name by which it is better known, the Yellow Brick Road (it is never referenced by that title in the original novel). In the later film The Wiz, Dorothy has to find the road, as the house was not deposited directly in front of it; in the novel…