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
The Wizard of Oz is a classic known by all. The plot is fairly simple. Poor bored Dorothy is sick of her normal boring life on her Aunt and Uncles farm in Kansas and decides to run away to a more exciting life. Her plans are changed when she meets a fortune teller who convinces her to go back home. Unfortunately, as she is headed back home a horrible storm starts and she and her dog Toto are blown away, along with her house. When she lands, she comes outside to see that she has landed on a person with red shoes. She is met by tiny people and a witch called Glinda who tells her that she has landed on and killed the Wicked Witch of the East. Dorothy tells Glinda she wants to go home, and Glinda tells her if she follows the yellow brick road she will end up in the Emerald City where the Wonderful Wizard of Oz can help get her home.
Lyman Beecher was born in New Haven in 1775 and was graduated from Yale divinity School. He was recognized as one of the New England's Leading clergymen.In 1799, he was married to a native women by the name of Roxana Foote, a bright and gentle woman that was talented with needle work. As a Father Lyman Beecher loved having all of his children with him and have good laughs. He also liked playing Scottish tunes and showed his children how to shuffle step. He was very humorous and couldn't act serious even when it came to serious messages. As a minister, he helped built organizations that were known as benevolent empire and gave religion to America. To Lyman Beecher, religious competition and disagreements were only if the end result was protestant
Frank Lloyd Wright was born Richland Center, Wisconsin on June 8th, 1867. He was the son of William Carey Wright, a local orator and minister, and Anna Lloyd Jones, a school teacher. Wright's parents were both resolute individuals with eccentric interests that they inherently passed on to him. When Wright was about three years old, his family moved to Weymouth, Massachusetts; William was given the opportunity to be the minister of a small congregation. However, the Wright family struggled in Weymouth and they returned to Wisconsin. Eventually they settled in Madison, Wisconsin where the Wright family participated as active members of the local Unitarian congregation. When Wright turned 14, his parents divorced; their money problems likely led to the demise of the marriage. William Wright
Satchel Paige was the first and best person to persuade the MLB executives to change their mindset about Negroes being in the American League. Satchel paige was the most dominant in his time, and showed success through failure. Overtime in his career with starting off with being rejected by the American League and had to kick start his career in the Negro Leagues. He was the most dominant pitcher winning more than 8/10 of his games and he was inducted into the American League, after being astonishing in his Negro League career. Comparing Satchel Paige to Jackie Robinson may people would say that Jackie was better but Satchel Paige was inducted into the MLB before Jackie was and was in the American League way before him.
The placement of a prop or altering the way the light shines on a scene, however insignificant they may seem, are ways that the director can select and control meaning in a film. Such is in The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939), specifically during the scene where Dorothy (Judy Galand) has been locked in the Wicked Witch of the West's (Margaret Hamilton) castle room by herself; many aspects of mise-en-scene are noticeable. Many of the elements of the scene she is in contribute to her state and other aspects of the movie. The setting and props of the film all seem to centralize to where she is and how she got there. The light focus' just on Dorothy but also amplifies the intensity of the situation she is in. The behavior of
taught them all of the tricks he knew. After hard training his hounds (Old Dan and Little
The Wizard of Oz has been a popular and symbolic film throughout our previous history. Both the book and movie have been recognised as classic literature for children and adults alike. Although they share the same concept, there are a few important differences between the novel and the film.
The Wizard of Oz uses film form by using similarity and repetition. With Dorothy being the main character, she is always reappearing in the film. As well as all of the characters, The Tin Man, The Lion, and The Scarecrow, have similarities to Dorothy. Each of them need something, Dorothy needs to go back home, The Tin Man needs a brain, The Scarecrow needs a heart, and The Lion needs courage. The film also progresses from the beginning to the end, as well as the characters. Dorothy starts at one spot, follows the yellow brick road and eventually makes it to her destination to see The Wizard of Oz, gets what
Some of the events that contributed to his writing was his education such as him being caned which goes into Matilda, and him working as a chocolate tester helped him write Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He also had other experiences that helped him write boy, such as his motor car accident and his incident with his ancient half-sister’s manly lover. He as a young child with many
The Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum was published on May 17, 1900, and the original movie was made in 1939 (produced by Mervyn LeRoy). Both the book and movie are similar. The story is about a little girl named Dorothy who is carried away from home by a cyclone. She ends up in the land of the Munchkins where she meets little people and a witch. Once she meets the witch she is told that in order for her to get back home she has to go to the Emerald City to speak to Oz. On her journey to Oz she meets three characters: the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. These three characters also want something from Oz. The Scarecrow wants a brain, the Tin Man wants a heart, and the Cowardly Lion wants courage. Although the book and the
Judy garland who is purportedly named Dorothy dale in the move the wizard of Oz is the main protagonist in most of the Oz novels. Frank Baum created the fictional character who has been idolized in the American movie culture because of the character she has played in most movies, books, animations, games and on TV. At first she appeared in the novel the wonderful wizard of Oz which was created in 1900 and thereafter, she was able to reappear in most of the sequels showing her importance in various adaptations, notably, in the 1939 film named the wizard of Oz (Pfefferman, 2013). in the movie, the wizard of Oz, she acts as a young orphaned girl from one of the farms in Kansas which was owned by uncle henry and aunt Em. Life in the farm is considered to be composed of hard work and it provided little opportunity for Dorothy to have excitement in the farm. She is able to express her desires of exploring what was beyond Kansas through the use of a wishful song of what might be lying at the other end of the rainbow. One of the richest people in the town gets a permit of obtaining her dog, Toto, and she tries to save her life by running away. She changes her mind and decided to go back home when a tornado drops from the sky and everything changes radically in the movie.
As years went by there have been many other film adaptations of The Wizard of Oz such as, The Wonderful Land of Oz, The Wiz, Return to Oz, and Oz the Great and Powerful. There are also many references to the famous tale today. There was a study at Northwestern University that showed that there are over five hundred references to it in modern films
Frank was born June 8, 1867, in Richland, Wisconsin and died in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 9, 1959, at the age of 91. His Father, a musician, abandoned the family in 1885. He grew up under the leadership of
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a fictional adventure/fantasy that was written by L. Frank Baum in 1965. L. Frank Baum was born near Chittenango, New York in 1856. Frank grew up with a heart condition so he couldn’t play physically like other children so he developed a creative side, so he decided to write stories.
• the introduction of making childrens into storytelling through using their own experiences, and lastly,