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The Wizard of Oz The book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a well written children's story from the year 1900. The story is about a young girl and her dog who are swept away from their farm in Kansas by a cyclone. They then arrive in the magical land of Oz. The author goes on to tell the story of Dorothy’s adventures and the struggles she has along the way. It teaches the reader the struggles in life and the challenges we may face. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank baum shows the wickedness of the world through the things that people don’t tell Dorothy, the lack of features that her friends have that she meets along the way, and the fact that everybody wants something in return if they do something for you. The setting in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz changes throughout the story. At the beginning of the book Dorothy starts out on a farm in Kansas. The setting begins to change when Dorothy …show more content…

“When a cyclone strikes before she can make it to the storm cellar, she and Toto are swept up with the house and dropped in the land of the Munchkins, accidentally killing their despotic ruler—the Wicked Witch of the East—as they land”(Lowne pg1). That is how the story starts out. Dorothy and her dog Toto are swept away in a cyclone and they end up in the land of Oz. As soon as Dorothy arrived she wanted nothing but to go home. So the people of the land of Oz tell her to visit the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. On her journey down the yellow brick road she makes many new friends that come along with her to the Wizard of Oz. She talks to the Wizard and he wants a favor in return for bringing her back to Kansas. Dorothy grants his favor and soon she realised he is not a Wizard and there is nothing he can do to help her. A soldier told Dorothy to go to the Witch of the South and she will send you back to Kansas. Dorothy returns to Kansas and is reunited with her Aunt, Dorothy could not be happier to be

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