Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 8)
Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 8)
A Kansas farm girl is swept from her gray prairie home by a violent cyclone and deposited in a land of vivid impossible color. So begins the journey of Dorothy Gale, who finds herself responsible for the death of the Wicked Witch of the East and entrusted with the dead woman's magical Silver Shoes. To find her way back to Kansas, she must journey to the Emerald City and beg the Wonderful Wizard for help. Along the yellow brick road, she gathers unlikely companions: aScarecrow who longs for a brain, a Tin Woodman who yearns for a heart, and a Lion who desperately seeks courage. Together they face the Wicked Witch of the West, who wants the Silver Shoes for herself. What unfolds is a deceptively simple fairy tale about the ache of wanting to go home and the strange families we find along the way. Baum's 1900 masterpiece operates on multiple levels: a rollicking adventure for children, a sly commentary on American politics and currency, and a timeless meditation on belonging. The magic lies not in Oz but in Dorothy's discovery that she possessed the power to return all along.
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