NT4.2

The Wizard of Oz is about a young girl, Dorothy, who is caught in a tornado and somehow transported to another place. She tries to get to the Emerald City to have the wizard help her get home. Along the way she meets a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion. They all decide to travel to the Emerald City together. Along the way they run into the Wicked Witch of the West. They end up defeating her, and they find out the Wizard is a fraud. In the end Dorothy finds out it was all a dream.

I think you could fit a lot of modern biographies into the outline of The Wizard of Oz. At least I think you could fit it into the parts while she is in Oz. If you try to tie in her travel to Oz and waking up from a dream, then it doesn’t really apply. I don’t think that The Wizard of Oz tells us what our life stories should be like, if we are “good” like Dorothy. I think what the movie is saying is that if you stay strong you will find that you often have the solution to your problem right in front of you, or you could say within you. What I mean is the whole time she had the slippers, the solution to her problem. So what the story as a metaphor for life is saying is that there is a solution to our problems. We just have to try to find it. We can’t give up.

I think going to the movies is like going to the land of Oz. For a short period of time, you are in another place. You oblivious to what is going on in the real world for those 2 hours you are in the theater. One thing being said about being a good viewer is that you can get out at anytime. Everyone has the power to stop watching just by getting up and leaving, just as Dorothy could leave Oz by clicking her heels together.