Goodbye yellow brick road, where the dogs of
society howl ~
But, Oz never did give nothing to the tin man,
That he didn’t, didn’t already have ~ ~
A quite famous old story piqued my interest. Sung
by famous singers like Elton John and America, I’ve been wondering early and
late about the content of the story and how the plot goes. I was real curious;
however, I wasn’t really determined to buy the book. But, one time when I was
looking for a book to read from this stock of books,
whoah,
I found a queer-looking one, and when I looked at it ---> The Wizard of Oz! Yes!
And the story goes like this.
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Dorothy lived in Kansas with her uncle Henry, who
was a farmer, and aunt Em, the farmer’s wife. Their house had a trap door on
the floor – called a cyclone cellar – that when opened, a ladder led down to a
small dark place for safety in case one of those strong whirlwinds arose.
Dorothy had a black dog, named Toto, whom she loved
dearly.
When one cyclone arose, her aunt Em screamed for
her to quickly run to the cellar. But she could not find Toto, and the moment
she caught Toto, the house was already caught by the cyclone which brought her
to a strange place called the country of Oz. When Dorothy’s house reached the
ground, she opened the door and queer-looking people, called the Munchkins,
welcomed her joyfully for her house had killed the wicked witch of the East –
who had made the Munchkins her slave for many years.
They gave Dorothy the silver shoes from the wicked
witch of the East, and told her that it had some charm in them, and what that
charm was, they didn’t know.
She wanted to go back to her Aunt Em and asked them
if they could help her, but she had been told to go to the great wizard – Oz.
Perhaps, he can find a way to send her back.
Following the yellow brick road will lead her to
the city where Oz dwelt – located at the center of the country.
So, she started her journey and there she met the
Scarecrow who joined her company and wished for Oz to give him brains.
As Dorothy, Toto, and the Scarecrow continued their
journey, they found the Tin Woodman, who wished for a heart, and after that,
the Cowardly Lion, who wished for Oz to give him courage.
When they entered the Emerald City – where Oz
dwelt, the guardian of the gate made them wear green-colored spectacles for
them ‘not to go blind with the radiance of the city’. They found the city to be
all colored in green with different shades.
Oz had called for them one by one. But all of them
had the same expression when they got out from the great room. They were all
sad and gloomy for Oz told them that they can have what they wish when they had
killed the wicked witch of the West – who led the Yellow Land of the West, and
also made the people there as her slave.
Gladly, Dorothy, unintentionally killed the wicked
witch, and when they went back to Oz, they found out that Oz wasn’t a wizard
after all. He was just an ordinary, old man . . . a humbug. (o´∀｀o)
He was a ventriloquist and that deceived Dorothy
and the others when they met Oz individually, that Oz had taken many different
appearances.
And the Emerald City was not different from other
cities. Oz ordered all of them to wear the green spectacles so that all that’s
in the city will somehow look green in color.
Dorothy was told to go to the good witch of the
South. Perhaps, she knows how to send her back to Kansas. And when they met,
the good witch told her that through her silver shoes, she can go wherever she wants
in a few seconds.
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“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we
people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be
it ever so beautiful. There is no place
like home.”
“If you only had brains in your head you would be
as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are
the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or
a man.”
“But, after all, brains are not the best things in
the world.”
“I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a
fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.”
“I shall take the heart, for brains do not make one
happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”
“I have always thought myself very big and terrible.
Yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small
animals as mice have saved my life.”
“We dare not harm this little girl, for she is
protected by the power of good, and that is greater than the power of evil.”
- leader of the Winged Monkeys
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The people in each place:
❀ The Land of the East – Munchkins
❀ The Land of the West – Winkies
❀ The Land of the South – Quadlings, short and fat
and looked chubby and good-natured
Favorite color of each land:
❀ Scarecrow – lovely lady
❀ Tin Woodman – terrible beast
❀ Cowardly Lion – ball of fire
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LYMAN FRANK BAUM (1856-1919)
American author, born in Chittenango, N.Y. He is best known for a
series of children’s books about the mythical country of Oz. The first of them,
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900),
was an immensely popular humorous tale, which was successfully adapted into a
musical comedy (1901) and a motion picture (1939). Under various pseudonyms
Baum wrote many other books for boys and girls.
Encyclopedia International
Copyright © 1980
by Lexicon Publications, Inc.
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