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Wizard Of Oz And Westward Expansion Of Wizard Of Oz

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The movie Wizard of Oz is about a girl named Dorothy and her dog, Toto, get taken away in a tornado in Kansas. Dorothy goes on a trail called the Yellow Brick Road in Emerald
City to meet a wizard and along the way she picks up a few friends. All of the character in the story are traveling along this Yellow Brick Road to find something for themselves. Dorothy wants to go back to Kansas. The scarecrow needs a brain. The tin man is wanting a heart and the cowardly lion wants courage.
During the Westward Expansion after the Civil War, people began to move themselves into Kansas. This is the same location that Dorothy was from and got swept away by the tornado at. Also, the native Americans went on a path known as the Oregon Trail to migrate to the western part of the United States. This trail was a way that thousands of people would travel for …show more content…

In the Wizard of Oz, the Yellow Brick Road was used as a way for Dorothy to migrate back to Kansas and as a way for the other characters and Dorothy to have a new beginning at life.
The connection between the Westward Expansion and Wizard of Oz is even show by the song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”. In the Wizard of Oz, the song is about finding a happy place and being in your dream land. But in Westward Expansion when the native Americans were migrating, they were migrating to find new land and new happy place for themselves and their family to live.

Westward Expansion and Wizard of Oz are alike by the pathways such as the Yellow
Brick Road and the Oregon Trail. The location of these events both occur in apart of Kansas.
Also, in both the Westward Expansion and Wizard of Oz both of the people were looking for a happy place and for the dreams they had to come

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