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The Good Witch of the North (the northern electorate) tries to help Dorothy, but she is not very smart, does not realize the power of the slippers, and sends Dorothy down the very dangerous gold road to the Wizard, who she mistakenly believes is so powerful that he can grant her wishes. (The northern vote elected McKinley in 1896 and he passed the gold standard into law.)  

The Good Witch of the North (the northern electorate) tries to help Dorothy, but she is not very smart, does not realize the power of the slippers, and sends Dorothy down the very dangerous gold road to the Wizard, who she mistakenly believes is so powerful that he can grant her wishes. (The northern vote elected McKinley in 1896 and he passed the gold standard into law.)  

Along the Yellow Brick Road Dorothy picks up her coalition, the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, who all want the Wizard to grant their urgent wishes.  

Along the Yellow Brick Road, Dorothy picks up her coalition, the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, who all want the Wizard to grant their urgent wishes.  

The national capital, the Emerald City, is a dream-like place based on the "White City," the common name for the Chicago World's fair of 1893, which Baum and Denslow attended often. The emerald green is an illusion (everyone must wear green glasses), symbolizing the fraudulent world of greenback paper money that only pretends to have value.  

The national capital, the Emerald City, is a dream-like place based on the "White City," the common name for the Chicago World's fair of 1893, which Baum and Denslow attended often. The emerald green is an illusion (everyone must wear green glasses), symbolizing the fraudulent world of greenback paper money that only pretends to have value.  

The Wicked Witch of the West represents the trusts, who took control of small businessmen and made them cogs in their empire, just as the Witch does with the heroes, using the Flying Monkeys as her tools.  The trust issue was in the headlines, with a popular solution—one actually used in 1911 against [[Standard Oil]] to dissolve them. Dorothy heaves a bucket of water and dissolves the Wicked Witch.

The Wicked Witch of the West represents the trusts, who took control of small businessmen and made them cogs in their empire, just as the Witch does with the heroes, using the Flying Monkeys as her tools.  The trust issue was in the headlines, with a popular solution—one actually used in 1911 against [[Standard Oil]] to dissolve them. Dorothy heaves a bucket of water and dissolves the Wicked Witch.

The heroes return to Oz to claim their reward and expose the Wizard for a media-manipulating fraud. He has no real power and must leave Oz the way he came - on a hot air balloon. (Politicians were synonymous with metaphors like "hot air" and "full of gas.") But he is a shrewd psychologist and realizes the heroes already possess what they think they lack; they just lack self-confidence.  He fills the Scarecrow's head with bran for a brain, implants a heart-shaped silk cushion inside the Tin Woodman (who now realizes his compassionate nature), makes the Lion drink a dish of "courage" and becomes king of the beasts again.  He promises to take Dorothy back to Omaha, his hometown, but that plan misfires. The Good Witch of the South (the southern) vote appears. (In 1896 the South voted solidly for Bryan and free silver.) She is smarter than her sister the Good Witch of the North, and tells Dorothy to click her silver slippers three times—that believing will make it come true, and Dorothy arrives home again.  It is a classic adventure story of travel to distant lands, and a story of running away from home and returning, a favorite theme for children.

The heroes return to Oz to claim their reward and expose the Wizard for a media-manipulating fraud. He has no real power and must leave Oz the way he came - on a hot air balloon. (Politicians were synonymous with metaphors like "hot air" and "full of gas.") But he is a shrewd psychologist and realizes the heroes already possess what they think they lack; they just lack self-confidence.  He fills the Scarecrow's head with bran for a brain, implants a heart-shaped silk cushion inside the Tin Woodman (who now realizes his compassionate nature), makes the Lion drink a dish of "courage" and becomes king of the beasts again.  He promises to take Dorothy back to Omaha, his hometown, but that plan misfires. The Good Witch of the South (the southern) vote appears. (In 1896 the South voted solidly for Bryan and free silver.) She is smarter than her sister the Good Witch of the North, and tells Dorothy to click her silver slippers three times—that believing will make it come true, and Dorothy arrives home again.  It is a classic adventure story of travel to distant lands, and a story of running away from home and returning, a favorite theme for children.

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