Compare And Contrast Essay On The Wizard Of Oz

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The 1900 children’s book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L.Frank Baum is about a Kansas girl named Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto journey home. Dorothy and Toto got swept into the Land of Oz by a cyclone. Dorothy meets a living Scarecrow, a man made entirely of tin, and a Cowardly lion while trying to get to the Emerald City hoping that the Great Oz can help her return home. Oz advises Dorothy and her new friends to destroy the Wicked Witch of the West in order to find a way home. Over the years, the story has countless reinventions like the film Wizard of Oz 1939 and Oz the great and Powerful 2013. The Wicked Witch of the West is represented differently in books and films, established how the writers and actor in the Movie depicted her. The …show more content…

Miss Gulch is a grouchy old lady that rides her bike to Dorothy house to see Dorothy Uncle Henry and Aunt Em to complain that Toto bite her. She threatens Dorothy aunt and uncle that if they don’t hand over the dog, she’ll bring a damage suit to take the whole farm away. She also has a sheriff order to take Toto with her and Dorothy responded furiously and called Miss Gulch a “Wicked Old Witch”. In the film, the viewer can hint that Miss Gulch can be an actual witch. However, When Dorothy got swept away by the cyclone in the movie, a wicked witch flew by her window that look just like Miss Gulch except the black dress and green skin. After the cyclone stop Dorothy landed in the Land of Oz where everyone one she meet later on in her journey home resemble people she knew before the cyclone. Compare to the Original story of The Wonderful Land of Oz Miss Gulch does not exists in the book nor does she transform into the Wicked Witch of the West in the Magical Land of Oz. Another important fact is the Wicked Witch of the West in the film is depicted as a stoop green skin lady that wear a black dress and a pointy black hat, in comparison, to an old hag that wear mixed match outfit with an eye piece on one

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