Shan Jiang Dr. Friedman US History The Wizard of Oz I look at a book, which is written for a children’s literature writer who is infatuated with fairy tales and fantasy stories named Lyman Frank Baum. When I was young, I really enjoyed the fairy tale artistic conception that he created in the book, such as the Kingdom of Munchkins, the field with numerous flowers, and the wonderful emerald city of Oz. Since Dorothy started her journey I saw some profound things and the difference between the book and the movie as the progression of the story, and those things can tell us the condition of America in the late 18th century to the early 19th century. The story started off at the farm, which the main character Dorothy lives, when it was raided by the tornado. When everybody else had the tornado carried Dorothy, her beloved dog Toto, and her house to the place where the mountains live, the kingdom called Oz. Because …show more content…
Farmers need a brain to get their incomes back from the “crow”, workers needs a heart to get not used to the simplex work to do some exercise with their rusty muscles and bones, and rejects from the populism needs courage to go to the election again. When they follow the yellow brick road, which is representing the mercantile society, and get the emerald city, but the president couldn’t help because he is just a useless “magician” who knows how to deceive the public. There are a few differences between the book and the movie. Power shoes were silver in the book but it is red in the movie, and Dorothy traveled to Oz was actually happened, but the whole story was just a dream in the movie. They changed the color is right to show up better in Technicolor than silver, and it is for cancelling the figurative expression as the silver stands the populism and they made the whole story is just Dorothy’s