Wizard Of Oz Goal And Journey

(1) A quester: The quester of the story would be Dorothy. Dorothy lands in the Land of Oz during a tornado in Kansas.

The Wizard of Oz is an early film but editing is used quite a bit. First off, the absence of color in the beginning and the ending of the film. This sets an overall feeling of Dorothy being home. Next the film turns to color once Dorothy dreams of being in a different world, the color, yet again, set an overall mood for Dorothy in this new world “Over the rainbow.” The first steps of Dorothy being in the world of The Wizard of Oz gives off an example of inside and outside editing. The shot begins with a close up of Dorothy’s face and the camera slowly moves out to show everything else around Dorothy, which was the start of the yellow brick road and Munchkin land. After the viewer see all of that, the camera moves back in to Dorothys face when she says that they are not in Kansas anymore. One editing transition used a lot in The Wizard of Oz is the fade-in and dissolve. Another is cross-cut, two events occurring at the same

The film is brought to a climax when the Dorothy and her friends return to visit the Wizard after destroying the Wicked Witch of the West, of which he had requested. During this scene it is revealed that the Wizard is in fact a fraud, an ordinary but clever man who although as no powers, still fulfils the expectations of the story. He gives Scarecrow, Tinman and the Cowardly Lion the answers they seek by giving them the self confidence to recognise they had the qualities which they were looking for all along and he presents them with some token external symbols to represent this.

Aspirations of success often drive individuals toward success. However if one only focuses on their dreams and not on working to achieve their goals, they will not be successful. Charles Dickens and John Steinbeck in their respective novels Great Expectations and Of Mice and Men, use their main characters failures in manifesting their aspirations to warn about the dangers of aspiring about the future and not focusing on success in the present.

In life, heroes are everywhere. They fight crime, save lives, and basically just do good deeds. Heroes follow their journey, which, when written, is actually very cliché. A hero follows a set of events in their journey that are rarely changed. In this essay, two hero’s are examined, Santiago from The Alchemist, and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. These two stories seem very different, but in the end, are actually very similar. When examined closely, one may find that their journeys are very similar, following the events of a hero’s journey. This seemingly simple set of events is found in almost every heroic story. First is the problem. The hero is in a not quite perfect way of life, and needs to fix it. Then there is the refusal, the hero is called up to fixed the problem, but refuses for whatever personal reason. Then they are forced to go, and meet a mentor. This mentor gives them the wisdom that they need to get through the journey. It may even be what the hero is striving to be. Then they cross the threshold from their ordinary world to the new special world. The fifth and sixth parts can be interchangeable. Trials and allies/enemies, either can come first. Then they reach what they have been striving for, the liar, the cave, the final destination as a normal person. Once the hero reaches this part, they will be forever changed. At some point in this final destination, they will be killed and reborn, whether it is metaphorical or literal. After this they will fight

In the movie, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, written by L. Frank Baum, a little orphan girl named Dorothy is adopted by her Uncle Henry and her Aunt Em; They live on a family farm in Kansas. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em are stressed out because of how poorly the farm is doing, which is caused by the Dust Bowl. One day Dorothy and, her dog, Toto is walking home and she passes Miss Gulch’s, a rich neighbor, house who is outside doing some gardening. Toto runs into the garden chasing after Miss Gulch’s cat and also biting Miss Gulch. She hits Toto across the back with the rake sending Toto running away in fear. Dorothy and Toto make it back home where they find Uncle Henry and Aunt Em working on the farm. As Dorothy tries to explain what Miss Gulch has done she gets ignored and shooed off. Soon after she meets up with Uncle Henry as he is feeding the hogs to explain to him about the situation with Toto, but once again Dorothy gets ignored and she ends up slipping and falling into the hog pen causing commotion which leads to Aunt Em coming over to see what is going on. Dorothy gets in trouble and is told by Aunt Em that she needs to find a place where she won’t get in trouble. Miss Gulch approaches the farm with a letter staying that she is allowed to take Toto away from Dorothy to get him destroyed. This situation influences Dorothy to run away from the farm because she’s tired of being treated like she isn’t worth anything. As

In the movie The Wizard of Oz, based on the novel written by L. Frank Baum, the type of conflict can be labeled as person versus self because Dorothy wishes she lived in a place where there was no trouble, but she doesn’t realize herself that there is no place better than home, which is the main conflict. The protagonist of the story is Dorothy and the antagonist is Dorothy’s thoughts and wants, because Dorothy wants to live in a place where there is no trouble, a place over the rainbow, and isn’t conscious of how she already lives in a great place full of people who love her. First off, in the initial incident of the movie, Dorothy’s dog Toto was taken away by Mrs. Gulch in a basket, but he escaped from the basket and made his way back to

Through George’s guidance, Steinbeck shows in reality that not all goals can be done with just hard work. A little luck can be helpful as well, but some goals are just doomed to fail. With an understanding of this theme, we can incorporate this reality into our own goals and helping us farther in our own

TBD In literature, and also in reality, our dreams and "destinies" are a lot more complicated to accomplish than we originally think. Most of the time our dreams are layered with obstacles that we must overcome to achieve what we want. While these obstacles prove to be difficult to deal with and rise above they teach us lessons that we need to learn in order to fulfill our potential. Obstacled teach us how to grow and adapt, the key to overcoming them is using them to your advantage and learning everything they have to offer you.

One of the most thought of and unanswered questions that we humans ponder over is, “ what is the meaning of life?” We might not know the answer to that question, but what we can do is look at our lives and the lives around us and compare it to the Hero’s Journey. Now the Hero’s Journey is an, “ all-embracing metaphor for the deep inner journey of transformation that heroes in every time and place see to share, a path that leads them through great movements of separation, descent, ordeal, and return”. Everyone has their own goals in their lives and how they want to accomplish them. Many want to go to college for extra education and study and get a degree in what they are interested for a occupation. For example, a student could have a goal one day to become a lawyer and to establish a law firm in Chicago. So in order to do so, he or she must take the time to hit the books, get good grades, and do whatever is necessary to accomplish what they set out to do. The end product of whatever happens to that student is only part of the Hero’s Journey. It’s not about the end product, for it is about the journey that the student experienced through his life time to eventually get to his goal.

"Follow the yellow brick road" - The Wizard of Oz. Although society is more familiar with the 1939 version it was in fact the fifth remake of the 1910 silent film. In fact the original film was actually based off of a 1902 stage musical of the same content which was based off of the original book written by Lyman Frank Baum. The release of the movies 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ' and 'Oz the Great and Powerful ' is a 103 years difference. In that amount of time this movie has been remade 57 times and counting. Even though the newer version of the Wizard of Oz isn 't a remake of the original it 's more of a prequel , both the original and the new version were interesting as you get a different perspective because the focus was on different aspects, the techniques used were drastically different and the characters play roles that are unexpected.

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The protagonist of every story is the hero of a journey, even if the path leads only into his own mind or into the realm of relationships. The way stations of the Hero's Journey emerge naturally even when the writer is unaware of them, but some knowledge of this most ancient guide to storytelling is useful in identifying problems and telling better stories. Christopher Volger condensed these seventeen stages into twelve stages in his book The Writer’s Journey. Here in observing the heroic journey Christopher Volger’s condensed model of 12 stages of heroic journey is followed illustrating each by utilizing the experiences of protagonist of the novel, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistressof

The stages of the Hero’s Journey givens insight on how stories are structured in 12 stages. Every story is unique in its own way. To begin with, The Ordinary World helps the reader experience what the hero is seeing, feeling and doing described in words. Every story has a problem to solve that disrupts the Ordinary World. The Ordinary World is known as the safe place for the hero. Next, the hero enters the stage known at “The Call to Adventure”. The Call to Adventure is what disrupts the Ordinary World by making the hero uncomfortable with certain obstacles he or she must face in the story. The hero must then decide on how to solve the issue that he or she is facing at that moment. The third stage is called, “Refusal of the Call”. This stage

“I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!” is one of the most famous quotes from “The Wizard of Oz”. I recently watched the Wizard of Oz two weeks ago in my bedroom on my TV. I saw the Wizard of Oz seven times before that because it is such an great movie.