"The Wz"

“The Wiz” is a remake of The Wizard of OZ. This is a fictional movie about a kindergarten teacher named Dorothy who is brought to Munchkin land by a snowstorm. Munchkin land is a like a dream/nightmare that Dorothy is having. This place and the people she meets there help her to find her independence and how to deal with pressure of her family. She uses independence to try to find her way home.

The first person Dorothy meets is the Scarecrow. When she finds him he is being teased by crows because he doesn’t have a brain and is not able to get down from the pole. Dorothy helps him down and invites him to join her on her trip to see the OZ, so that she can get home and he can get a brain. By helping the scare crow she learns how to think for herself. Together they find the yellow brick road which represented a way out. The next person they meet is the tin man. They find him in an amusement park, where he is rusted. Dorothy and the scarecrow help him by finding his oil can. The tin man needs a heart so they invite him to join them on their journey to find The Wiz. By helping the tin man I think Dorothy learned how to care for someone other than herself. The next person they met along their journey was the lion. The lion was a big scary creature but he had no courage. He was afraid of a lot of things, so they asked him to join them on heir trip to see the Wiz. By helping the lion Dorothy learned to be brave and in control.

In this movie Dorothy learns how to stand up for herself and others. By the beginning of the movie Dorothy aunt teases her about moving out and changing her profession so that she go out in be in the real world by herself. I think that by the end of the movies Dorothy is ready to explore the world by herself.