' The Modest Proposal, And The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

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Lyman Frank Baum, more commonly known as Frank Baum, was an American author generally known for his astonishing novel, “The Wonderful Wizard of OZ”. However, Baum wrote many other intriguing pieces, including playwrights, journals, and children’s books. Baum was born and raised in Chittenango, New York and had a particularly comfortable upbringing due to his father owning a barrel factory. Frank Baum never earned a high school diploma; he instead spent a majority of his early adulthood pursuing his interests in writing and acting. It was not until 1899 that Baum made his first major appearance with “Father Goose-His Book”. The following year, Baum found himself in the limelight with a captivating novel titled “The Wonderful Wizard of OZ”. Baum’s …show more content…

You would have to decipher each line of content to truly understand what the author was trying to get across to his audience. Both stories include a vast amount of symbolism that may or may not be clearly portrayed to most everyone. Both “A Modest Proposal” and “The Wonderful Wizard of OZ” focus on some sort of social class. “A Modest Proposal” mainly emphasizes the lower class as the story discusses children and parents lacking jobs and being unable to support themselves, while “The Wonderful Wizard of OZ” focuses on the middle to upper class, as OZ is portrayed as a wealthy individual. The social classes discussed in both stories may be different, however, if the readers were to scrutinize both stories, they would be further cultivated about two diverse social …show more content…

The scarecrow claims he has no brain, yet when Dorothy is captured, he is the one who creates the plan to help her escape. The lion says he has no courage, yet he is remarkably brave when he must fight off the witches’ guards to save Dorothy. Dorothy was so eager to return home to Kansas she went through desperate measures to satisfy the wizard enough for him to help her, when she had the power to go home by herself the entire time. “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” has brought joy to people all over the world for many generations. As we grow older, the story enhances its meaning from a story about a girl wanting to return home, to a political, informal, brilliant novel. Many people would not hesitate to call Frank Baum a genius for creating this story, and I would not disagree. The amount of hidden meanings this story conveys is breathtaking, and it can open your eyes to many situations and make you look at them in an entirely different way. I believe people study these details because “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” fills such a large space in our imagination, and as we grow older and are able to comprehend more, we wonder if this movie is a part of our imagination, or if this story is based on true and relatable events from a century ago, that could essentially happen at this point in

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