The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Analysis

Most of the action takes place in the Land of Oz, which is a very strange place. But the protagonist, Dorothy, hails from a land that many of us know very well, and that's the good old U.S. of A. D...

The book's narrator is mostly invisible to us, meaning we don't notice him or her very much as we read. There's so much action and dialogue that it's very easy to get lost in the story. Still, occa...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is often referred to as the first American fairy tale. The story itself starts and ends in the American heartland, on a Kansas farm. Some elements of the story are tradit...

Two words: flying monkeys. On that image alone we could rest our case that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a fanciful book. But there are loads of other imaginative touches, including a talking scare...

Oz is a strange and unfamiliar place filled with flying monkeys, a woodman made out of tin, and other things that readers have never seen before. Since Baum wrote about things that don't exist in t...

There's not much mystery as to where The Wonderful Wizard of Oz gets its title. Oz is the greatest, most powerful wizard in all the land…or at least that's what he lets people think. Thanks to th...

Structurally, the book ends exactly where it began: in Kansas. In the last chapter, after all her adventures in Oz, Dorothy has finally found her way home and into the open arms of dear old Aunt Em...

Though his work is admired in a lot of literary circles these days, L. Frank Baum wasn't trying to be a Writer. (You know, the snooty sorts who throw around hundred-dollar words and refuse to admit...

An Unexpected HolidayDorothy takes an unplanned vacay when her house is swept up in a cyclone. Her destination is Oz, a beautiful land of many wonders, and from the moment Dorothy lays her eyes on...

The Tin Woodman was inspired by a window display that L. Frank Baum made for a hardware store in real life. ( Source) When Baum was a little boy, he imagined the scarecrows on his family farm were...

This one is squeaky clean. While there's almost certainly some steamy Wizard of Oz fan fiction lurking in some dark corner of the internet, no one gets hot and heavy in the book itself. (Like, not...