Citation: "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz" -L. Frank Baum pg.347-353
Setting: Hugson's Siding, CA somewhere near San Francisco on the way to Hugson's Ranch, and a magical world in the middle of the Earth
Characters:
-Dorothy Gale: worry-free, imaginative, curious, explorative
-Zebediah (ZEB) Hugson: scared, easily worried
Themes:
-Childish Imagination: While this book is targeted towards children, it does a great job feeding a readers imagination using color imagery, fantasy, and personification
- Childhood Curiosity and Fearlessness: upon safe landing, curiosity outweighed the fear of being in a new unknown and possibly never making it home. The kids just wanted to explore the magical world.
Literary Devices:
-Color imagery is used as the carriage falls through the earth and colorful spheres bounce rays of light to change the color of different parts of the children's and Jim's body.
-Fantasy: Soon after the initial fall it is easy to see that the fantasy starts. It initially starts with colorful floating spheres, then talking Jim, and upon landing, a mysterious world of all-glass cities and a landscape like earth but colorful from the light of the six colorful suns.
-Personification: Jim, the horse, was given the ability to talk, and at first it didn't even phase the kids. In fact, when they realized he could talk, it was more like a novelty to them. They weren't overly excited, but interested none-the-less.
-Point of View: The POV is third person limited. The author uses "they", "he", and "she", however, the author can also read into the thoughts of only Dorothy.
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