Wizard Of Oz Comparison

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Comparison And Contrast of “The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz” and “Into The Woods” The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in May of 1900. In this book there is a little girl who lives in Kanas and one day ends up getting caught up in a cyclone that deposits her in a field in Munchkin Country, which is in the eastern part of the Land of Oz. The house that falls in Munchkin country ends up killing the evil ruler of the munchkins who is the Wicked Witch of the East. Dorothy then gets greeted by the Good Witch of The west, who gives Dorothy the slippers and then goes on to tell her that she will have to travel to the Emerald City and ask the Wizard of Oz to help her if she wants to get back to Kansas, Which is her main wish throughout the journey…show more content…
This story opens up with the words “I wish”. Each character in the book is wishing for something, Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King's festival, Jack, a simple young man who wishes that his cow, Milky White, would give milk, and the Baker and his Wife, who wish they could have a child. While Little Red Riding hood buys bread from the Baker to take to her grandmother's house. And just like the Wizard Of Oz each of these characters goes on a journey to get what they wish for, just like Dorothy, the scarecrow, the tin man, and the lion. In the beginning it is revealed that an old ugly witch has placed a spell on the bakers line so that they wouldn’t be able to have a kid. But the witch says that the curse can be lifted if the bakers can find the four ingredients that the witch needs for a special potion. Which sounds very similar to the Wizard Of Oz when the wizard asks Dorothy and the rest of the group in order to get what they wished from the wizard they needed to go out and find the witch and proceed to kill her, which they eventually did. All of the characters begin their journey onto getting what they have been wishing for. Once the witch finally gets all her items that she needed in three days time from the baker and his wife she lifts the curse and then proceeds to make the potion and she becomes young and beautiful again. Everybody congratulates themselves on being able to live happily ever after at the end of act 1. When act 2 starts everyone is still happy but they are still wishing, The Baker and his Wife have their precious baby boy, but wish for more room; Jack and his mother are rich and well-fed, but Jack misses his kingdom in the sky; and Cinderella is living with her Prince Charming in the Palace, but is getting bored, which makes it seem like everybody is not every happy with
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