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Color In L. Baum's The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

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The classic children’s story, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, tells a tale of a young girl named Dorothy who finds herself in an unknown land after being carried up and away by a cyclone. There in the unknown land, Dorothy observed many different oddities, from talking animals to sentient beings that are not bound by flesh. The author, L. Baum, included many whimsical elements throughout his writing to create this strange new world; one of them being the usage of color. In the beginning of the story, Dorothy came across the good witch of the south named Glinda. She is a sorceress that has red hair, blue eyes, and she wore a white dress. These colors are also the colors of the United States; a country that represents freedom which is what Glinda
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