Friendship In Dorothy's The Wizard Of Oz

The main character of the story is a young girl named Dorothy. She lives in Kansas with her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em. Her companion and best friend is her dog Toto. One day a tornado comes to the farm and the rest of her family takes shelter in their storm cellar, but Dorothy doesn’t make it there in time and the tornado picks up the house with Dorothy and Toto inside of it. Dorothy tries to remain calm and eventually falls asleep in her bed. When she wakes up, the house has been placed in a strange land, apparently called the “Land of Oz”, as Dorothy is told by local residents called munchkins and the Witch of the North. The witch tells them that the house had landed on the wicked witch of the east and killed her, freeing all munchkins from their slavery by her. Horrified that she had killed someone, she still accepted a gift of silver slippers as reward for her good deed. She asks the

I personally believe that the theme of The Wizard of Oz is that life is full of connections. These could be good or bad connections, but no matter what you are going to have to interact with people to get to where you want to be in life, or to achieve what you want to achieve. For example, Dorothy wanted to go back home, and in order to do so she made friends with three unlikely companions, met both the good witches of north/south, and defeated both witches of east/west, and met the powerful wizard of oz. Without all of these people, she would not have completed her quest to get back home. Without Dorothy and their other new friends the cowardly lion would have never found “courage”, the tin man would’ve never obtained “a heart” and the poo scarecrow wouldn’t have any “brains”. Also each of these sub-plots of these scarecrows/metal people/animals lacking connections lead up to joining the larger plot of getting Dorothy