A modern day connection to The Odyssey can be made with The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. This classic story really mimics the idea of making a long journey toward home. In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy runs away from home just before there’s a tornado coming through, and she’s angry and wishing she was somewhere else. She hits her head, and has this dream that she goes on a journey where she lands somewhere far away, “somewhere over the rainbow,” and she has to get through a lot of obstacles to try and get home. She finds a talking scarecrow, a rusty tinman, and a lion who is not very brave, and they all go to try to get help from the Wizard in the land of Oz. Dorothy goes there to find her way home. The scarecrow wants a brain, the tinman wants