Wicked Witch of the West

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…

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…

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.…

by unknown agreement to join the Order of the Wicked. A group of "wicked" witches fighting against Dorothy to get Oz back to normal. This is where Amy falls in love with "witch boy" names Nox. By the end of the book, Amy's efforts to kill Dorothy fail when Dorothy disappears from Amy's hands as they're falling towards their death. With efforts from the Wizard, Ollie (a monkey Amy saves at the beginning), and other witches from the Order of the Wicked, Amy was saved from a ton of catastrophe.…

her many acts of courage and her successes found in the story. In the face of adversity, Dorothy perseveres and succeeds in her goal; finding what lies at the end of the yellow brick road. To begin with Dorothy, is a woman of courage. She kills a witch, teaches a lion to not be afraid, and much more. Initially, she is seen as a common farm hand, but that changes as the story progresses. She does much more than sit on the sidelines, but makes sure to get into the heat of conflict to find an…

the city Dorothy is tasked by the wizard with killing the witch. Once she has done the deed the wizard tries, and fails, to take her back home. Afterwords, Glenda, the good witch, reveals to Dorothy the path home. Showing her the lesson she needed to learn all along, and allowing her to resolve her problems without having to run away. Up until her realization with the help of Glenda, her journey throughout Oz was rising action. Once the witch died the climax was over and the only thing left for…

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…

In the Wizard of Oz color plays a role throughout the novel without the readers not knowing. Many can think it does symbolize something or nothing. Each color symbolizes something different and some are similar. Each can represent money, emotions or people. Having colors as symbols make great lessons with different meanings. Gray is the first color that we are introduced in the story which represents Kansas. Kansas is Dorothy's home which she always describes as gray and…

Imagine being sucked into a story you have heard about and watched for years...literally! In the book, Dorothy Must Die, by Danielle Paige, this is a girl powered book. This book was published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2014, it is inspired by the Wizard of Oz. Amy Gumm is just an ordinary girl from Kansas who lives an ordinary life, until she gets swept up by a tornado, dropping her into the one and only Oz. Only Oz is not the same, “This wasn’t Dorothy’s Oz” (35). everything has been…

destroy the land. Oz however is a flawed man, he accepts the challenge, only so that he may have the chance to inherit the treasure of the Land of Oz. As the story progresses it comes to light that Glinda is the good witch, and unbeknownst to Theodora, Evanora is truly the evil witch. Theodora is tricked by her evil sister Evanora, corrupting her and turning her Evil as well. Oz wants to give up on the Land of Oz, claiming he is unable to save them, revealing his motivation had always been the…