Lyman Frank Baum 2008
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz World Publishing Corporation
Brief introduction of the author:
Baum was born in 1856 in Chittenango of New York, the Unitied States. His parents once nt him to Peekskill Millitary School for he was too weak and was madly cling to fairy tales. But that didn’t help at all and even led to his mental breakdown. His parents had no choice but to bring him back and let him develop freely.
timescapeThat was just the exact way Baum should go: his newspaper for family readers succeeded to some extend in the locality. His father even bought veral theaters for him when he fell in love with drama creation.
Baum was amiable, indecisive and always indulged in fantasy. After his father’s death, the whole family was brought down becau of Baum’s misconduct in business. But that didn’t affect him much, he still lived a happy, quiet and frugal life.
Later, he moved to Hollywood in 1910, lived in a hou which he named Oz and spent his remaining years there. His heart stopped beating on May 6th, 1919.
Duing his whole life, he had been journalist, editor, actor, office worker, farmer and grocer. It was when he was 40 that he found that he was born to be a storyteller. His most famous works were The Wizard of Oz ries which include The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, etc. Besizes, he wrote other six books for boys under the pudonym Floyd Akers and twenty four books for girls under Edith Van Dyne.
The background of the story:
Baum was a master stroyteller. He thought what he had heard in his childhood was monotonous and preaching, so he always made up his own.
One night, when he was telling his children stories an exciting idea suddenly caught him--- it was the story the first inspiration ofultimate是什么意思 the Emerald City story. Baum quickly took do
wn the words in his mind while coaxing his exited children to quiet down.
bakeThen the first story about the Oz land came into being. After it was first published, Baum received thousands of letters of appreciation from his little readers so that he started the quel. All together there were fourteen stories in The Wizard of Oz ries.plantcell
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Plot Summary:
A farm girl named Dorothy was blown to the land of Munchkins by a a cyclone together with her adorable pet dog, Toto. The girl wanted to go back though the land was far more beautiful and wonderful than her own farm, for she misd her dear Aunt Em and she was the only normal human being like her there.
A kind-hearted witch advid her to go and find the greatest wizard Oz in Emerald City. He probably had the power to nd her back to Kansas. Having thanked the kind witch Dorothy t out her long and adventurous journey to Oz.
藏文在线翻译Along her way to Emerald City, she met Scarecrow, the straw man without brain, the Ti
n Woodman without heart and the coward lion without courage one after another. The four comrades resolved to fight together to reach the Emerald City.
timemanagement>教师节快乐的英文 After they got through all kinds of tests they finally met the Great Oz and got what they desired.
My comments:
I. General understanding
There is no doubt that there is always some extra information that the author want to convey between his or her words besides the story itlf.
One of the obvious points the author want to show us is that we always don’t know what we’ve got in our hands.
Dorothy sometimes wanted to get away from the gray prairies where her farm located, while she arrived in the colorful wonderful land she longed for home so much that she said, “ east, west, home is the best.”, “there is no place like home.”拼凑
I do hope everyone can pay more attention to people around him or her especially parents and clo friends. We’ve got so ud to their existences that we even igonore them. We take what we get from them for granted so that we think it unnecesarry to show our appreciation to them. On the contrary, we should let them know how important they mean to us and how grateful we feel for them, which will warm them deep in heart.
Another obvious point is that sometimes we just don’t know how potential we are and how strong we could be.
The Scarecrow thought he couldn’鲜为人知是什么意思t think with the head full of straw, while he could always come up with a great idea to help get through the difficulties.
The Tin Woodman thought he couldn’t feel and love without a heart, while he showed his sympathy towards tho weak animals who would be the diner of the coward lion and even cried for the misfortunes they came across.
