In the wizard of oz the magical land of Oz‚ color is used to depict varied characteristics of the story‚ including things like place‚ mood and emotions. The specified color for each location throughout the story allows the reader to more easily follow with their progression through the tale. Colors were used to describe The wizard of oz is a story of a girl and her dog encountering new friends in a new strange colorful land trying to get back to a world that seems rather dull or grey .The
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The Wizard of Oz is one of the biggest American Musicals in film. It has become known world wide‚ it is apart of our American popular culture‚ and is best known of all films. It was based on the novel‚ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in the 1900s. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayar in the year of 1939. This film just hit the end of the “Golden Age of the Musical” that started in the early 1930s. MGM benefited greatly from the hit of the rebirth of musicals. It’s known for
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Wizard of Oz Textbook Tour Alysha Kahlow EDU 324-01 Teaching Social Studies Wisconsin Lutheran College Wizard of Oz Textbook Tour Textbook tours are a fun way to introduce students to upcoming units in a specific class. Textbook tours are a way to have students interact with the text they will be working with for the year. By introducing the main topics and ideas to them before they read or look through the book can help engage the students and make them want to learn about what they
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Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum was published on May 17‚ 1900. There were two such productions that occurred due to this book. The first was the MGM movie “The Wizard of Oz”‚ an adaptation of Baum’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‚ came out on August 25‚ 1939. Second was “Wicked: The Musical”‚ which began in 2003‚was an adaptation of a spinoff book called Wicked written by Gregory Maguire which gave a different perspective of the characters and plot of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . The musical
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child‚ I watched the “The Wizard of Oz‚” all the time; but when we watched it together in my U.S. History Class‚ I realized that the meaning is much deeper than it seems. Many of the characters and significant places or things in the movie can represent people‚ places‚ things and ideas from American history. There are many ways to connect “The Wizard of Oz‚” to history. In “The Wizard of Oz” Dorothy is a simple girl who gets caught up in a huge scenario involving wizards‚ flying monkeys‚ and many
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Mattie Ross from the novel True Grit and Dorothy Gale from the movie The Wizard of Oz are two young girls who embark on two different adventures. Both this novel and the movie are very different in many ways but also very similar if you analyze each detail closely. For instance‚ both True Grit and The Wizard of Oz were made into a movie and have more than one version. The obvious one is that both of these have their leading role being a female protagonist that is young. The other obvious one is that
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The Wizard of Oz is about a young girl named Dorothy‚ who realizes the value and importance of her family after ending up in a different world after a twister. Throughout the film‚ there was repetition of sayings and songs. There are also many hidden messages in the film that are very powerful. There is symbolism behind the personalities of the scarecrow‚ tin man‚ and the lion‚ which happens to portray Dorothy’s inner emotions and thoughts of herself. The film‚ The Wizard of Oz‚ has plenty of songs
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that are present throughout the Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum are that of friendship and kindness. The story presents these values through the character of Dorothy seen both expressing and receiving kindness. By illustrating these occurrences‚ this paper will show how it is through the kindness that Dorothy gives and receives‚ as well as the friendships that result‚ that she is able to find her way home to Kansas. Upon entering the Land of Oz‚ Dorothy receives sympathy from the munchkins
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these lessons or messages can be very subtle. Themes can be exemplified by mise en scène‚ either by the use of acting style or a characters thoughts that can give us the aspect of human dilemma that will explore the theme of the film. In The Wizard of Oz (1939)‚ there are many themes that could be exhumed‚ but a major theme is “perception”. Both director and writer uses sensory means in order to bring the awareness of the theme of the story and there are immediate recognitions of moral qualities
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components. It can be perceived as a process which leads to a conclusion or destination. The journey process is more significant than the destination. William Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’‚ J.M Barrie’s novel Peter Pan and Victor Flemming’s film The Wizard of Oz (1939)‚ all communicate journey concepts. Through analysing the ideas and textual conventions it will become evident that the ‘journey process’ is more important than the destination. Shakespeare shows a greater understanding of the journey concept
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