Oz agrees to help them each, but only if they prove themselves worthy of his assistance and defeat the Wicked Witch of the West, who rules over the Winkie Country in Oz. The Scarecrow sees Oz as a lovely lady with wings, the Tin Woodman sees Oz as a terrible beast with horns, and the Cowardly Lion sees Oz as a floating ball of flaming fire. Dorothy is the first to meet with him and the girl sees Oz as a giant levitating head above a jeweled throne.

Oz seems to be a talented shapeshifter as he appears to each of them one by one as someone or something entirely different. They are greeted by the 'pretty green girl' named Jellia Jamb who escorts them to the chambers of the Wizard. They are also the first in history to ever be permitted to meet with Oz. The Soldier with the Green Whiskers escorts them through the busy streets until they reach the grandest building in the city, the Royal Palace of Oz. When they arrive at the Emerald City at last, they are asked by the Guardian of the Gates to wear special spectacles to protect their eyes from being blinded by all the glittering green gems and precious emeralds that decorate the entire city. The group face many adventures on their way, overcoming obstacles such as cliff gaps in the yellow brick road, flesh eating Kalidahs (beasts with bodies like bears but heads of tigers), crossing a raging river, meeting a female mother Stork, falling victim to a field of deadly poppies, the Tin woodman killing a vicious Wildcat and being helped by the Queen of the Field Mice and her Field Mice. They all truly believe that the Wizard is capable of granting them their wishes.

The Scarecrow wants a brain, the Tin Woodman wants a heart, and the Cowardly Lion wants courage. And after learning a seemingly Cowardly Lion has no courage at all, she also encourages him to join her on her travels.ĭorothy meets the Cowardly Lion. Sometime later, Dorothy befriends and applies oil to the rusted connections of a tragically heartless Tin Woodman in a thick forest. The next day on the yellow brick road, she passes by a cornfield and meets and frees a brainless Scarecrow from the pole on which he is hanging upon and invites him to join her on her journey. After a hardy supper, she spends the night at his residence. The celebration is in honor of Dorothy for liberating all of Munchkin Country of its wicked suppresser. On her way down the yellow brick road, Dorothy attends a lavish banquet thrown by the wealthiest of Munchkins, a man named Boq. Before she leaves Dorothy, the Good Witch of the North kisses her on the forehead, for protection and luck. She is then directed to follow the Yellow Brick Road which will eventually lead her there. The Good Witch of the North explains that the Land of Oz is surrounded by a great Deadly Desert, so in order to find a way home she will have to go to the Emerald City to seek out Oz's most powerful and dominant figure known as the great Wizard to ask him to help her. Dorothy, eager to get back to her aunt and uncle ask how she can return to Kansas. The Good Witch of the North who rules over the Gillikin Country in Oz, comes with three local Munchkin men to greet Dorothy and give her the charmed Silver Shoes (believed to have mysterious magical properties) that the Wicked Witch of the East had been wearing upon her demise. The house also lands on and kills the Wicked Witch of the East, the evil ruler of the native Munchkins, for which they are extremely grateful for finally being freed from her wickedness. The storm deposits the house in a gorgeous meadow in Munchkin Country, the eastern quadrant of the undiscovered realm named the Land of Oz.

One day, a monstrous cyclone hits and Dorothy and Toto are swept away inside their farmhouse which is carried through the air and blown far, far away. She has a little black dog named Toto, who is her sole source of happiness on the dull prairie. Dorothy is a little orphaned girl raised by her hardworking Uncle Henry and his wife Aunt Em in the bleak, gray and colorless landscape of a small, poor and sunbaked Kansas farm.

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