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This school year we studied two different books, Alice In Wonderland and The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz. Right now we are learning about The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz. We had to read the book and then the day that the book was due we saw the movie. And now we are doing the third thing, writing a blog post about it. The book is about a girl that lives in Kansas and she goes to this magical world when a tornado hits her house. In the magical world she goes on a quest to go to the Emerald City to see the Wizard and she thinks that he has enough power to bring her back to Kansas. Along the way she meets many people; I should not say people because the first one was a scarecrow, the second one was a tin woodman and the third one was a lion. They where all going to the wizard to get something from the wizard. The scarecrow was going to get a brain. The tin woodman was going to get a heart. And the lion was going to get courage. I like the book a lot!
We just saw the MGM movie and it is very different than the book. For example in the book Dorothy is very young (she is about 6 I think) and in the movie the actress playing Dorothy looks as if she is 14. I do not like that. One of the biggest differences in the book and the movie is that in the end of the book the whole world and the adventure she has there, was a dream and in the book it was not a dream. In the book the slippers that she gets from the witch is silver. But in the movie the slippers are red. They made them red because the color movie had just come out and since the movie was in color they wanted the slippers to stand out. In the end of the book when Dorthy has to go see the nice witch she has to go there, and in the movie they took out the whole ending because the nice witch comes to her.
This is an example of something in the movie that I really liked. They added in a lot more with people that she first sees when she gets out of her house that dropped in the tornado. The people are called munchkins. I really like that they added more in because it was very entertaining and funny but it was not to long or to short. I think that the movie is a bad adaptation of the book; but it is a very good movie.