BEFORE THE READ
Consider other takes on the land of Oz. (See below for some accessible reference material.)
- L. Frank Baum's The [Wonderful] Wizard of Oz (1900)
- The Wizard of Oz film (1939)
- Tin Man (2007)
- Oz: The Great and Powerful film (2013)
Consider the introductory quotations (Defoe, Tolstoy, Baum) and what light they shine on the story.
A FEW QUOTES
"Though Oz had given her a twisted life, hadn't it also made her capable?" (4)
"History crawls along on the peg legs of small individual lives," said Frex, "and at the same time larger eternal forces converge. You can't attend to both arenas at once" (9).
"...What a child, that sips blood even before its first suck of mother's milk!" (21)
[Regarding the wooden sparrow whittled for Elphaba] "Wet, it had greater life" (38) and "She is herself pleased at the half things...The little girl to play with the broken pieces better" (39)
"Typical male response to happiness...to predict its demise" (53)
"But when words are to speak in the air, actions must to follow" (57).
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