David Gale

The story of David and Goliath is known by every Sunday school class. David is a young teenage boy who, after much doubt, defeats the colossal Goliath with only a sling and a few stones. Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage is related to the Bible story of David and Goliath, because David and Henry Fleming are both young boys who decide to fight in war and come out as strong leaders and heroes. After Henry departs from home to go to war, he matures from boyhood to manhood as he develops into

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a historical fiction book because although much of what the author writes about are memories of her childhood while growing up in the Big Woods of Wisconsin some of the stories and characters were added or embellished. This story tells of Laura Ingalls and her family and how life was for them in the Big Woods in the early 1870s. Survival was not always easy for them but life was rewarding. For the Ingalls, survival meant growing and harvesting

Hotel del Coronado, San Diego, CA. If you had the chance to visit San Diego, California you might consider staying at the Hotel del Coronado. This popular beachfront hotel was once featured in the movie “Some Like It Hot” starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. It is possible that this hotel inspired writer L. Frank Baum to come up with Emerald City in “The Wizard of Oz”. The hotel isn’t green but it slightly resembles Emerald City. The hotel was built in the Victorian age in 1888 and

The adaptation of the text, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum that I watched was the movie “The Wizard of Oz” filmed in 1939. The three components that were different were the way it ended, the violence included, and why the characters were lacking. In the book the way it ends makes the audience think that OZ is a real place that does exist. There were books that came after this book which involved Dorothy living in the land of Oz. However, in the movie Dorothy wakes up from a nap at

Comparing Frank Baum’s Dorothy Gale of the Oz series and Lewis Carroll’s Alice of Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll’s Alice and Frank Baum’s Dorothy are two of the most well-known and well-loved heroines of all time. At first glance, both Alice and Dorothy appear to be rather accurate renditions of actual little girls who embark on their own adventures in strange and fantastical lands. However, closer scrutiny reveals that only one of these characters is a true portrayal of what a little girl

In 1939 one of the most memorable film was released, The Wizard of Oz. In 1978 The Wiz, an urban reimaging of the exemplary novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz put an African American vibe to a film. The novel turned into films follows the adventures of Dorothy, a girl who embark on an adventure in strange and fantastical land just wanting to go back home. In this essay I’m going to plot each film and compare the main character of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and the Wiz and discuss

The two books The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix have very similar settings. While Dorothy travels to a strange land called the land of Oz, Jessie travels out of her 1840’s village and back to the current time of 1996. While both girls need to learn how to interact with situations they aren’t used to but they use different methods. Also the girls have totally different reasons as to why they are there and while they are there they are trying

Color is a powerful tool within both writing and the real world; in current society, red is used to represent power or urgency. In the novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum, color is used to portray lifestyle, setting, and emotion. The desolate lifestyle of Dorothy and her family in Kansas is shown with the color gray, the fruitful region of Munchkinland is expressed through the color blue, while towards the end of the novel, yellow is used to represent the joy of the Winkies when they

On Kahani, instead of glumfishes, the seas are filled with Plentimaw fishes, which are covered with dozens of mouths that all speak in unison and weave new stories together (Rushdie 84-86). Floating gardens can talk and groom story streams. A planet can be held still so that one side is constantly in light and shadows can become sentient beings on the other side. In Oz and on Kahani, anything is possible, which is quite different from Kansas and the Sad City, where every day goes by just as dismally

The Wizard of Oz Film and Book Background The Wizard of Oz is a book by L. Frank Baum written in 1900 and adapted into a musical fantasy in 1939. It starred a young Judy Garland, and was notable because of its use of special effects, color, unusual characters, and a fantasy storyline made into a major motion picture. It has become almost iconoclastic in film history, shown regularly on network television and becoming a part of American cultural history. The song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," won