Wizard Of Oz Assignment

Unit II Assignment

Kathy Zhu
Dr.Friedman
US History
Oct 5

“The Wizard of Oz” is a Fairy tales which written by Lyman Frank Baum, a writer from New York State. Dorothy was a little girl who lived in Kansas with her uncle, Henry and her aunt, Em. Dorothy had a dog named Toto. They lived in a small house which has a small hole that was dug to the ground called a cyclone cellar. The reason why they had the small hole is because when the shirlwind come, they can have a place to hide. One day, the whirlwind was coming but Dorothy fall down with Toto, so she did not have time to hide into the small hole. Dorothy and Toto were taken to the sky and when Dorothy woke up, she found she was in another world which has different views, a Witch from the Northern part said that Dorothy killed the Wicked Witch of the East and she released people there. But the only thing that Dorothy wanted to do was go back to Kansas, so the witch from northern part told Dorothy to find the Wizard of Oz in the city of Emeralds and then she may go back to Kansas. On her way to the city of Emeralds, Dorothy saved the Scarecrow which wanted to get a brain from Oz. And she also saved the Tin Man that wanted to get a heart from Oz. They found a lion which wanted to get courage form Oz. As a result,

Firstly, in the movie, Dorothy was protected by the Wicked Witch of East’s shoes but in the book Dorothy was protected by the Witch of North’s kiss. Secondly, in the movie, Dorothy and the Scarecrow were hit by the apple trees before they found the Tin Man. In the book, they just stayed in the cottage for rest before they found the tin man. Thirdly, the Tin Man was made by a Tinsmith in the movie, but in the book the Wicked Witch of East cursed a man to cut his arms and legs by axe, finally the Tinsmith help him to make his new arms and legs by tins. So, the book has much more