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    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 are released from the grasp of the Wicked Witch of the West. Before Dorothy is whisked away to Oz she is spending her

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    The Wizard of Oz is a film whom plot is based on a sad and lonely Kansas farm girl, whose name is Dorothy. Dorothy is unhappy and dreams of a better place without hatred toward her dog Toto from a hateful neighbor spinster, so in that case Dorothy plans to run away to escape the unhappy life she lives. During her plan to run away a terrifying tornado strikes her town and Dorothy is struck on the head and transported to a falsity land called “beyond the rainbow” where she interacts with people that

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    In the film, The Wizard of Oz, the story follows a young girl named Dorothy who lives in a farm in Kanas with her aunt in uncle. One day a tornado, hits her town, the young girl finds herself in a new environment, known as the Land of Oz alongside her dog Toto. She encounters a group of people named Munchkins, who celebrate her for killing the Wicked Witch of the East. Her sister, the Wicked Witch of the West, declare Dorothy as her enemy. Glinda, The Good Witch of the North, tells Dorothy to find

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    This journey begins with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, (computer) sending Dorothy, an Oz adventurist, (pulse) on a quest to find the Wizard of Oz. Many people throughout the Land of Oz have been reporting to Glinda that the Great and Powerful Oz is missing. Because Glinda is tasked with the safe keeping of Munchkin Land (transducer) she is unable to travel to the Emerald City and check on the Wizard herself. Glinda summons Dorothy (pulse creation in computer) to Munchkin Land where she is greeted

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    In the Wizard of Oz color plays a role in the novel through different characters, scenes and scenery. My opinion of the novel, color is used as a guidance throughout the story to reach the Wizard of Oz. The first main idea of the story is Dorothy stepping out from her black and white world into the explosive world of colors. The second main idea is the colors red and green representing different ideas of the story. The third main idea is Dorothy's ruby red slippers having a power only Dorothy could

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    rest is easy”. The started goal fades away throughout the story line and a new one is created. In the movie The Wizard of Oz the ( A.) Quester is a young, naive Dorothy, who is from Kansas. Dorothy is caught in a tornado and lands in the Land of Oz. ( B.) A Place To Go: When Dorothy arrives in Oz she finds out the only person the can get her back home is The Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz, who lives in the Emerald City, and the only way to get there is to follow the Yellow Brick Road. ( C.) As Stated

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    In the Wizard of Oz the type of conflict is person versus self, with Dorothy as the protagonist, and her unhappiness as the antagonist. For starters, the type of conflict is person versus self. In the beginning of the movie it states that, “Dorothy is unhappy with her life, and wishes that there was somewhere that she could go instead of being on the farm”. When the conflict is introduced in the initial incident, Dorothy is very unhappy with her life and sings the song “Somewhere over the Rainbow”

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    editing and sound in The Wizard of Oz and Psycho enable the audience to better enjoy watching both films which support Smith’s claim “a richer kind of pleasure”. The Wizard of Oz has revealed to be an exceptionally well thought out film when analysed. The film has made use of stylistic elements such as colour, light, sound and mise-en-scene which coincide with the various twists and turns of the plot as Dorothy moves from Kansas, to Oz, and back again. In The Wizard of Oz, the director, Victor Fleming

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    Genre is an artistic production of characterization and similarities in a compositional style. It also in terms is used to discuss music, art, literature and even film. In particular applications it distinguishes a work within a context of other work. As you are familiar with certain types of genre such as horror, science-fiction, romance, drama, and comedy. “Films in the horror, fantasy, and science fiction categories are among the most likely to cross genres, both with one another and with

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    Throughout the story of the Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), colors play varying roles to illustrate the surroundings which Dorothy and her friends find themselves. Dorothy and her little dog, Toto, journey with unique friends such as the brainless Scarecrow, the heartless Tinman, and the cowardly Lion. These adjectives are ironic because throughout the story, it is found that the qualities each of them seek, they mistakenly possess. Nevertheless, the story begins in a gray state

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