Frank Baum the man behind the curtain
Frank was a great author and wrote many books even though he had his struggles in his life. He is a example of what a real man should be. This is why Frank Baum is the true man behind the curtain.
Frank Baum was born in New York in 1865. Baum was tutored in his early years. At the age of 12 he was sent to a Peekskill military academy because of his imagination. He was soon removed because he suffered a health crisis possibly a heart attack caused by stress. He never earned a high school degree. In his 20's he had many jobs. He raised chickens, wrote plays, ran a theater company, and started a company that produced oil biased lubricants. He later moved on to become a newspaper journalist. It was not until he was forty that he started to write children's stories. He found a wife her name was maud gage she was a student a Cornell. She was a roommate of his cousin and daughter of a famous rights activist Matilda Gage. His aunt told him that he would love her. When they first say each other Baum told her "consider yourself loved miss gage." They got married in 1882 and had four sons. Baum's first two children's books were mother goose in prose and father goose, his book. They are composed of nursery rhymes. These books became the top selling children's titles of 1899 and featured illustrations by W.W. Denslow. At the the age of thirty he moved to South Dakota to visit his brother in law. Over his ten years he spent there his experience there would start to form the story line for the wizard of oz. The wizard of oz was not only the best selling book in the country, but the creation of this book started a whole new genre. On May 4th Baum had gallbladder surgery that he never really recovered from. ...
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...re are symbols of socialism and also saying Baum was a socialist, but no one knows for sure the real truth. Even though Frank Baum had troubles in his life he still pulled it out and came up on top. That is why he is the true man behind the curtain.
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Frank has an interesting view on the way man has progressed morally. I think that he says that we don’t really know our morals until we have them truly questioned. In this he implies that the people who have strong morals, not only will stay true to them, but will survive. An example of this is Randy Bragg. Randy, on the day of nuclear fallout, stopped on the side of the road to help a woman. This shows that he has respect for the human race as a whole. The opposite of this was Edgar Quisenbury. Edgar valued nothing but money. In the end, the absence of money caused Edgar to become an example of Darwin’s “Only the strong” theory as he shot himself.
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Frank L. Baum begins The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in Kansas, a land devoid of color and life, to show Dorothy’s dismal world. Her Aunt Em, who had once been a beautiful woman, has become as colorless as the gray and dried vegetation on her farm. When Dorothy is caught in a cyclone, she is transported to a colorful and lively world, but she desperately tries to return to the colorless farm. Inherently Dorothy knows that home is where one’s loved ones live not some beautiful illusion. However, on her journey home Dorothy becomes enticed by the illusion of the prosperous Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz. Dorothy, along with the friends who join her, willingly follow the Great and Terrible Wizard rather than looking within themselves to find their
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L. Frank Baum is known as an astonishing writer. Who hasn't seen or read Wizard of Oz? To this day it is a house hold movie. It's interesting that he is little known for his views of Native Americans.
Baum took a different approach on gender than many did in this time period. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz reverses the accepted gender roles of its time, women taking control, even helping men in times of need. Throughout the novel are a number of examples of a woman helping a man through a problem, and a woman getting through her problems on her own. This novel was one of the first signs of feminism, putting the woman into power. As Baum said, “Never give up. No one knows what’s going to happen next” (www.goodreads.com).
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In a period of despair and depression one gleam of light shone through the midst of darkness, Frank Baum’s classic work of fiction, The Wizard of Oz. In 1900, The Wizard of Oz was published. The late nineteenth century was hard on the average American worker, especially farmers. Droughts, tariffs and deflation forced farmers in an economic depression. They relied on railroads to transport their goods to the north, so the railroad companies took advantage of this and raised the prices. Not only that, but the government put high taxes and tariffs on their products. Farmers lost money. Frank Baum struggled too; The Wizard of Oz was his way of escaping the dark times. He wanted to produce happier fairy tale and make a new genre for children and young adults; writing The Wizard of Oz was his way of doing so. Baum wrote the novel during a time called the Populist Movement and many believe this influenced the plot. In a short time The Wizard of Oz flew off the shelves and spread quickly throughout America. The Library of Congress, the official library of the United States, recognized his achievement and that is why for years the novel has been selected for “The Books That Shaped America”, a list of books selected across the country by the Library of Congress. Frank Baum captured the hearts of the young and the old with The Wizard of Oz, yet what was supposed to be the new “sweet fairytale” turned into a controversial political scandal, making it an immensely popular, inspiring writers and young literature enthusiasts to produce similar works.
The Wizard of Oz is a fiction story written by L. Frank Baum. The story has two main settings. The first setting is, Dorothy’s home, the Kansas prairies. The prairies are described as dry and gray. The second setting is the land of Oz. Oz is opposed from Kansas, it is colorful, bright, and full of joy. The Wizard of Oz has a grate theme or message behind the story. The message is that we all have good qualities in us, but it is up to us to use them.