أربعة. . ولكن ليس كأي أربعة. . خرجوا للبحث عما ينقصهم. . لم يكتفوا بالتمني. . تغلبوا على العقبات. . بالكثير من الحب. . وهناك في مدينة الزمرد حصلوا على ما تمنوه. . ولكن بعد ان أدركوا قيمة ما لديهم
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شكلت تلك الرواية جزء ثابت من طفولتنا. . لمن قراها ولمن شاهد الفيلم. . الابطال محملين برموز
فخيال الماتة هو الفلاح المتهم في ذكاؤه. . مهما كانت اهميته. .
ورجل الصفيح يرمز للعامل ومعانته من الآلية والجمود. .
اما الأسد فهو السياسي المرتعد للأبد من فقدان منصبه. .
ولا اتذكر حقا الى ماذا ترمز دوروثي
طابع القصة أمريكي جدا ولكنه إنساني في المقام الاول. .
اما جودي جارلند التي ادت دور دوروثي فقد تم تدمير حياتها بفضل الفيلم. .
فقد منحتها استديوهات هوليود الكوكايين! لتحافظ على وزنها القليل. . وتحلت لمدمنة لكل أنواع المخدرات. . ليتحول الحلم الأمريكي كالعادة لكابوس This is one of the most bizarre books I've ever read,
The fantasy elements are all rather ordinary, Theres a secret world beyond that of our own this is a standard trope of the genre, C. S Lewis would soon follow suit and inspire later generations, But the point is the Land of Oz is just weird,
Seems like a bland criticism, though the entire point of the plot is to have good triumph over evil, But what is evil Beyond the actual name of the antagonist, the Wicked Witch of the West, we dont actually know much about her, Is she really that bad It seems unusual to create such an evilly induced character and then have her preform no evil it sort of makes the whole moral of the story seem questionable.
Simply put, an apt summary of the story would be: “a little girl meets three freaks and goes on a killing spree in a fucked up world.
” Indeed, the heroes of the tale arent exactly what Id define as good,
Are they evil heroes
Dorothy is completely unheroic, She kills another “evil witch” on her entry into the land her first act is to accidently commit murder, All her success is down to unbelievable blind luck it gets to the point that she performs a completely random action, like throwing water at someone, and she somehow saves the day.
Itd just odd. The Tin Woodsman is an even stranger figure, We have an entire chapter devoted to the saving of a colony of mice yet, at one point he cuts a leopards head off despite travelling in the company of a lion.
Does this sound like childrens fiction For me this was slightly hypocritical, Its like the author is saying we should be nice to some animals only, It made little sense. And then theres the whole separate issue of how the woodman managed to survive so many decapitations, .
I can understand why this book was so popular to its earlier audiences its a very early attempt at fantasy, so there wasnt a great deal quite like this around at the time.
I think for a child who just sees the basic plot of this, they would easily become lost, But when you read it as an adult you just cant help but think “this isnt right, ” I could go on. I could go on to explain how the structure is a slight mess, Each chapter is almost like its own enclosed story thats could be read section by section, each night before bed, But as an actual novel, the progression of chapters really is quite poor, I picked out two points where the novel really should have ended yet, it kept going on when the climax had finished and all momentum has been lost.
For me this book is an example of an overly hyped cultural phenomenon, Many people claim to love this book, but many havent actually read it, Everyone my age I have ever met has watched the film at some point in their life the basic narrative is embodied into their cultural psyche, which happens with many literary classics of this type.
The point is the book here is a very different thing, I implore everyone who bases their knowledge, and perhaps love, of this on the movie to actually sit down and read the horrendous work in question then you may see what it actually is: a vile little story that is accidently evil.
This one was quite a shocker!
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Wizard of Oz Oz, L, Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L, Frank Baum and illustrated by W, W. Denslow, originally published by the George M, Hill Company in Chicago on May,, It has since been reprinted on numerous occasions, most often under the title The Wizard of Oz, which is the title of the popularBroadway musical adaptation as well as the iconicmusical film adaptation.
The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone.
The novel is one of the bestknown stories in American literature and has been widely translated,
عنوانها: جادوگر شهر از جادوگر شهر زمرد دنیای شگفت انگیز از جادوگر بی نظیر شهر از نویسنده: ل. فرانک باوم تاریخ نخستین خوانش: بیست و نهم ماه سپتامبر سالمیلادی
عنوان: جادوگر شهر زمرد نویسنده: ل. فرانک باوم مترجم: ایرج قریب تهران کتابهای طلایی
عنوان: جادوگر شهر زمرد نویسنده: ل. فرانک باوم مترجم: ابوالقاسم حالت تهران هرمس چاپ چهارمدر هشت وص چاپ ششم
عنوان: دنیای شگفت انگیز زمرد نویسنده: ل. فرانک باوم مترجم: سارا قدیانی تهران قدیانی بنفشهسه جلد در یک مجلد درص جلد نخست: جادوگر سرزمین از شهر زمرد گلیندای مهربان چاپ پنجم
نوشته: ل. فرانک باوم ترجمه: ایرج قریب نام اصلی کتاب جادوگر بی نظیر شهر از است رمانی ست برای کودکانی همچون خودم همراه با تصویرگرهای بینظیر دنسلو. نمیدانم چندبار خوانده ام: دوروتی در جاده ی آجر طلایی راه افتاد و توتو هم به دنبالش رفت. کفشهای نقره ای همان طور که دخترک راه میرفت جیلینگ جیلینگ صدا میکرد. هنوز راه زیادی نرفته بود که به کشتزاری رسید. که پر از ساقه های بلند ذرت بود. دوروتی چشمش به یک لولوی سر خرمن افتاد که او را روی ستونی بسته بودند تا پرندگان را از مزرعه ذرت های رسیده دور کند. و ا. شربیانی Book/for
I really, really liked this book! I honestly had pretty low expectations going into this book and thought it wouldn't compare at all to the greatness of themovie which is one of my favorite movies, but I was wrong.
It was one of the best children's classics that I've ever read and I even loved how it wasn't that similar to the movie, so it kept me interested.
I also had a beautiful hardcover Puffin Classics edition, so that make the experience even better! All in all, I'm so glad that I had to read it for my class! The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written at the turn of theth century, is probably one of the most iconic American fairy tales, just as sitelinkAlice's Adventures in Wonderland is one of the most famous childrens novels in English literature.
Almost everyone at least in the Englishspeaking world knows about the adventures of Dorothy, the young farm girl from Kansas, in the magical land of Oz, and her sidekicks, the Scarecrow without a brain, the Tin Woodman without a heart and the Cowardly Lion who lacks courage.
These characters embark on three consecutive quests: the first and most famous one along the yellow brick road, to reach the Emerald City and find the Wizard of Oz the second one, to the Winkie Country and the Wicked Witch of the West and finally the third one, to the Quadling Country and Glinda, the Good Witch of the South.
This novel became a bestseller
and was adapted into a Broadway musical, soon to become, in turn, a major Hollywood hit, with thefilm sitelinkThe Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland who was aroundwhen she portrayed young Dorothy.
The influence of this book onthcentury literature and film can hardly be overstated, I suspect Tolkien had read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz before he started to work on sitelinkThe Hobbit, And, just to give a couple of obvious examples, John Boormans sitelinkZardoz or David Lynchs sitelinkWild at Heart pay ample tribute to Baums novel.
L. Frank Baum is one of these authors whose name have been completely overshadowed by the popularity of their book, The recent very popular musical, sitelinkWicked, is also worth mentioning,
One interesting aspect of this story is the fact that the Wizard turns out to be a humbug, As he says: “Im a very good man, I'm just a very bad Wizard, ” This sheds some suspicion on the very power of magic, which is rather unusual and subversive in a childrens fairy tale, and makes apparent the characters own inner potentialities and strengths, precisely where they believed they had a flaw or lack brains, heart, courage, incapacity to go home.
In a way, the wizard is indeed a very good psychotherapist or politician, and the book is an edifying lesson on need and desire, Just as the Emerald City isnt green, but only the greentinted glasses people are made to wear make it so, its all, in essence, a matter of perception.
The edition I own is beautifully illustrated by Olimpia Zagnoli, who has managed to give some tempo to the reading experience with flatcoloured geometric drawings.
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