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Lyman Frank Baum Analysis

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Lyman Frank Baum, Witness Narrative #75 *Clicks heels 3 times* There's no place like home. There's no place like home. There's no place like home. *Looks around* Toto I think we're back in Kansas. You probably recognize me, I'm Lyman Frank Baum's most known character of course! Frank, no one dared call him Lyman, was born on May 15, 1856, in Chittenango, New York. He grew up in a rich family. "At the age of 12 he was sent to Peekskill Military Academy but left the school after a health crisis two years later, apparently suffering from some type of heart condition. Never earning a high school degree." He married Maud Gage in 1882 and had 4 sons (Krull, 13). His sons helped develop his talent for storytelling because he would create nursery rhymes and tales before bed every night. They found them so interesting that they often invited …show more content…

Everything was green, thanks to the green glasses from his jokes about how to get a horse to eat sawdust. It featured me, a Kansas girl and my little dog, Toto. We were in a strange place, on a yellow brick road, to an Emerald City. "I marveled at a non-scary scarecrow, a man made out of tin parts, a cowardly lion, a wizard who is fake, and women who are all-powerful." One evening Frank was asked where they lived. He liked to say his gaze happened to fall on a file cabinet labeled A-N and O-Z. 'Oz!' was his answer. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz first appeared in 1900. Even though his book was a success he still had financial problems, which ended when he went to his publisher's office and got a check for several thousand dollars (Krull, 31). The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was and still is very popular although the book has never won any awards. The movie won eight awards including best original song for "Over the Rainbow" and best youth DVD (Corliss, "Oz

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