Character Review

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Character: Dorothy

When I first the book the Wizard of Oz, throughout the story, it’s always about Dorothy, Dorothy, Dorothy. Thus I have decided to write about her character from this book. Kansas farm girl Dorothy Gale lives with her Aunt Em Uncle Henry, and three farm hands, Hickory, Hunk , and Zeke.

The book start off where a cyclone is approaching the house, thus made her rushes back to the farmhouse, but is unable to join her family in the locked storm cellar. Taking shelter inside the house, she is knocked unconscious by a window frame blown in by the twister. She just sat in the middle of the room while staring what was going on.

That’s when her life adventure starts. Up to this point, I can see that she love her dog a lot and treats him like her best friend.  Her only friend was her dog, because of there’s nobody else around in that small farm.

When she wakes up, she found herself to in a strange land full of weird people. First thing first, a lady known to be a witch of the north greeted her. She was afraid at first as what she had known from her parents, is that all witches are bad and they should have been dead. As the witch continue to explain, she slowly understood what was going on. There were, small people around her as she takes a look around too. She had killed a bad witch unknowingly and gains respect from the village she landed on.

She was quite lost at this moment and I can see that she is just like a small kid lost in some streets full of people asking for her mum. She was unprepared and do not know what to do thus I can see that she is a really clueless and dependent on other people.

The story continue where she meet three other important character, a scarecrow, tin woodman, and the cowardly lion. All three of this character play important role in getting her back home to Kansas.  All three of them have a wish too like Dorothy, thus they decided to help her and find the great wizard of Oz as he is known to be a really powerful wizard. They were really hoping that he can help them, especially Dorothy.

They soon met the Wizard of Oz and were told to kill the witch of the west before he can grant them their wishes. Thus they went on a quest to kill the witch of the west and successfully did. They also gained the power of the flying monkeys. After they went back, they found out that the Wizard was a humbug thus they felt gloomy again. But all hope was not lost when he told of a way to go back home using the air balloon. But during the day that they were supposed to go back together, the balloon launches off first the wizard on it, without Dorothy.

Her last option was to find Glinda, the witch of the south. She needed to go through the Country China, all the way to find Glinda. Finally she reached, and was told she could have gone back home since the beginning when she landed on this land. The shoe she gotten from the witch she killed at first accidentally had the power to do so. Thus she uses it by tapping her leg three times and wishing to see her Aunt Em. Dorothy successfully did it and was once back home again.

From that, I could see that a lot of people in the land is just making use of Dorothy when she just want to go home. She had the power yet she doesn’t know how to use it. That ends my character review with, ‘you may have the power to do something reat, yet if only you know how to use it that would have been great.’