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Story · United States · 1900

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

55Watch it awake.

Read Baum's 1900 book: she wants home, the road is the fun, and the wizard is a man.

The review

This is the book, 1900, L. Frank Baum. Not the 1939 film and not the 1910 reel. A cyclone takes Dorothy and a dog to a city. She walks with a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion. Home is the want. The road is the pleasure. I can say that to a child without humming anything from a picture we are not reading.

The wizard is a man behind a curtain. That is the truth the city was not getting. I won't invent what he says back there. The pleasure is the walking, and the want that finishes it is home. If we only know the film, we will dress this in songs it does not have. A child can read it. I was tired enough to be grateful the point is simple: the great man is a man, and she still wants to get back.

Journal

Keep The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Heidi

64 instead of 55

Heidi is still a novel film, and it scores 64 instead of 55. What you gain is industry: A city house hires her as a companion, and that use makes her sick.

The eight

4
Industry
The wizard's greatness is a show; her real errand is getting home.
7
Household
A child and a dog are carried off, and home is what she wants.
3
Piety
No creed stops the walk; the road itself is the pleasure.
6
Courage
She walks a strange road with a dog, a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion.
5
Republic
A city takes its wonder from a man hiding behind a curtain.
5
Temperance
Home is the want, but the pleasure the book keeps offering is the road.
8
Truth
The wizard is a man behind a curtain, not the power the city believed.
6
Stewardship
What she wants left to her is home, not the city to keep.

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Treasure Island

56Watch it awake.

Courage is real. The treasure is not a good inheritance, and the rum is not a joke.

The review

Jim Hawkins is brave. That part is clean. He is also a boy on a ship where the most likable man is a murderer, and the prize at the end is coins that nobody earned. The story knows Silver is dangerous. It still has too much fun with him.

Read it for the courage and for the warning. A charming man who will change sides for a chest is not a model. Do not hand a child the rum, the killing, and the treasure as if they were one adventure.

Journal

Keep Treasure Island in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Pride and Prejudice

70 instead of 56

Pride and Prejudice is still a story film, and it scores 70 instead of 56. What you gain is household: Marriage is the whole question, and Wickham's charm is not allowed to be free.