Her justification for her title Glinda the Good is that only ugly witches can be wicked. Glinda is the only significant person with whom Dorothy comes into contact in Oz that has no counterpart back home in Kansas.

He wants the Wizard to supply him with courage so that he might express actual bravado. In Oz, he takes the form of a Lion who hides his own timidity behind expressions of false bravado.

Zeke/The Cowardly Lionīack in Kansas, Zeke is the most shy and nervous member of the trio of farmhands. In that magical place, he takes the form of a woodsman made of metal who joines Dorothy and the Scarecrow to see if the Wizard can provide him with a heart. Hickory is another farmhand who comes to see vaguely familiar in Oz. The Scarecrow is eager to join Dorothy on her trek to meet the Wizard of Oz in the hopes that he might be able to fill in the missing gap in his construction where his brain should be. When Dorothy gets to Oz, she meets a walking talking scarecrow who reminds her quite a bit of Hunk. Hunk is one the hired hands helping to work the farm in Kansas. Except for the witch’s green skin, that is. Miss Gulch’s socially-accepted form of wickedness in Kansas is transformed into outright black magic in Oz were hated Wicked Witch of the West bears a strong physical resemblance to the old crone. Miss Gulch/The Wicked Witch of the West Miss Gulch is a skeletal old woman with a pinched face and a personality to match whose overreaction to Toto being in her garden is the stimulus for Dorothy attempting to run away which in turn caused her to be trapped outside the underground shelter when the twister hits.

When a tornado drops from the clouds, everything undergoes a radical transformation. As the dark skies an approaching storm arrive, however, she has changed her mind and is making a desperate bid to get back home. When the town’s richest and meanest citizen, Miss Gulch, obtains a legal order to take her closest friend-Toto, her loyal dog-away, she tries to save his life and pursue her reams by running away. She expresses her intensifying desire to explore the world beyond the confines of Kansas through a wistful song about what wonders may lie at the other end of the rainbow. Life on the farm is hard work and offers little opportunity for excitement to the girl blossoming into womanhood. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Ī young orphaned girl living on a farm in Kansas owned by her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.

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