Book Review 3: The Wizard Of Oz

In Kansas, USA, there are no witches or wizards. But there are cyclones, and one day a cyclone blows Dorothy’s house, with Dorothy and her dog Toto in it, to a country called Oz. And in Oz there are four witches, and a famous wizard – the Wizard of Oz.
Dorothy wants to back home to Kansas, but she doesn’t know how to get there. She needs help. ‘Go to the Emerald City,’ the Witch of the North who Dorothy met for the first time in Oz tells her, ’and ask the Wizard of Oz to help you.’
Then Dorothy meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion, but they need help too. So they all take the yellow brick road to the Emerald City. But what are they going to find there? Who – or what – is the famous Wizard of Oz?
They want something for themselves. Dorothy wants to go home, the Scarecrow wants some brains, the Tin Man wants to have a heart, and the Cowardly Lion wants bravery. They are lacking something each other, so they decided to go to the Emerald City to meet the Wizard of Oz together.
The friends get to the Emerald City, they could see the Wizard of Oz fortunately. He is not the regular appearance and the friends see the different looks. But they are not to be given the things that they want. They must kill the Witch of the West before they get the things. They left the city and walk to the Witch’s house.
Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion are carried to the Witch’s house and the Witch told Dorothy to work for her. Dorothy worked the day and night. Addition to that, the Witch wants Dorothy’s red shoes and she tries to pick them up. One day, the Witch could pick the right shoes up at last, but Dorothy got angry and she picked up a bucket of water. Then she threw the water into the Witch’s face!! The Witch of the West was disappeared!! Actually, she was defect in water.

The Wizard of Oz was not the Wizard. He was a man from Kansas, too. He gave a brain to the Scarecrow, a heart to the Tin Man, and the bravery to the Cowardly Lion. However when he would go Kansas with Dorothy, the rope broke and Dorothy could not go home with him. He told Dorothy to ask how to go back to Kansas to the Witch of the East from up, up, up the sky. She quickly called the magic monkeys and told them her wish that she wanted to meet the Witch. Dorothy met the Witch and asked what she should do. Then the Witch said, “ask your red shoes.” Dorothy thanked to the Witch and said good-bye to her and the friends. The shoes brought Dorothy to Kansas as soon as she said “East, west – home’s best!”
I have not read this book in details, but I learn the most important thing from this story. It is that we always want that we already have. We are unconscious that we already have wonderful things like the warmness, the kindness, the ability to think, the bravery, or strictness. The lesson from this story is that we have to be more conscious of our capability.