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The Wizard of OzThe Wizard of OzBy L. Frank Baum
Author
Characters
Summary
Theme
Movie
Made by Stacy, Patty, May, Sally
Author
• L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
• Born in 1856 at Chittenango, New York
• Heart condition is not good
• A timid and shy boy
L. Frank Baum
• At age 5: moved to Rose Lawn Estate, a country home near Chittenango (his father had made a fortune out of oil )
• Never used his first name (he preferred Frank)
L. Frank Baum
• Read fairy tales and British writers voraciously, especially enjoyed Dickens
• He criticized the fairy tales that were frightening and horrifying
• Frank made the decision: he would write a different kind of fairy tale
L. Frank Baum
• His parents sent him away to a strict military school
• Suffering a heart attack or a nervous breakdown
• Finally withdraw from Peekskill
• Began to nurture Frank’s creative interests
The Last Book
•Glinda of Oz : (1920) Frank's fourteenth book in the Oz series
• Died in 1919 at his home in Hollywood,California
SUMMARY
• Dorothy lives on a Kansas farm
with her uncle Henry and Aunt E
m and her little dog Toto.
• a frightening cyclone appears, D
orothy unable to reach the storm
cellar in time
• landing in the mysterious field in the country of the Munchkins
• the house killing the Wicked Witch of the East
• The Witch of the North
greeting Dorothy and
gives her the silver shoes
• the good witch of the
North recommending
Dorothy follow the Yellow
Brick Road to the city of
Emeralds and asking the
wizard of Oz to help her
• Dorothy meets
the Scarecrow-a brain
the Tin Woodman- a heart
the Cowardly Lion- courage.
• the Wizard appearing each time as someone or something different
• the wizard agreeing to help each of them, but one of them must kill the Wicked Witch of the West
• The Wicked Witch’s attacks failed. Dorothy killing the bad witch, and getting the golden cap
• back to the Emerald
City and discovering
the truth of the
Wizard
•he still agrees to give them what they want
• The Good Witch of
the South may be
able to send Dorothy
and Toto home.
• Oz have to take them home with him in
hot air balloon again. But Dorothy and
Toto miss the rising hot air balloon.
• the silver shoes Dorothy wears can take her anywhere
• Dorothy and Toto returning to Kansas
The Scarecrow - Leader of Emerald city
The Tin woodman - Leader of West
The Cowardly Lion - King to the forest.
Theme
Friendship Adventure ** To see is to believe? “How can I help being a humbug when all these people
make me do things that everybody knows can’t be done?” said Oz. (p.111)