When reading or watching a movie or even just listening to a book or movie you can't always understand everything detail or put together what it looks like. Say there was no color would you be able to imagine? In some books or movies color is everything. It helps describe the place and the people there and what it is like. In the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum he uses color in a extraordinary way. He does it in a way that you can imagine everything and what it looks likes. It helps separate good from evil and where they are in the story. Every different place has a different color to represent what they do and who they are. One example of the use of color in the Wizard of Oz is the yellow brick road. The yellow brick road in the Wizard of Oz is a road that Dorothy takes on her journey to get to the emerald city. It takes her through many marvelous places and allows her meet many different types of people and also makes her face many different problems. Yellow in a political way means money or gold, so interpreting it to the yellow brick road it's like it is leading whoever to their destiny or wealth. In this case ir leading dorothy to her happiness. …show more content…
The emerald city is green to the people it too bright for there eyes so they have to wear these things to help block out the illumination of the color. Everything there is green like money and they are wealthy there. It is also an example of a sham because the city actually is not as bright as they say it is. They just want the people to believe it is, also how they believe Oz is the great and powerful and can do magic, etc but he can not he is just a man from Omaha who joined the circus and landed there one