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Color In L. Frank Baum's Wizard Of Oz

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In the story of the “Wizard of Oz”, L. Frank Baum does use a variety of colors. In the beginning, when Dorothy and Toto are on the farm in Kansas, the author uses the color “gray”, to describe just about everything in their surroundings, whether it is the house, the fields, and the sky and clouds. After Dorothy is taken by the cyclone up to the land of Oz, all of her surroundings take on colors and special meanings. Dorothy wears the silver slippers of the witch that was killed. This brings her good luck. Then she is told by the Munchkins to follow the “yellow” brick road to get to the Emerald City. The color yellow is important if Dorothy and Toto are to find their way to the Wizard who may be able to get them home. On the way to the Emerald
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