Basically, the patchwork girl of oz foists one wacky new character after another on readers, tries to coax a chortle or two out of us, provides yet more evidence that oz is a socialist utopia, and puts a bow on the whole bit by offering a heartwarming ending. The patchwork girl of oz 1914 ojo and unc nunkie are out of food, so they decide to journey to the emerald city where they will never starve. Mary shelleys frankenstein and the patchwork girl of oz by l. Frank baum novel, dorothy and her dog toto, are caught in a tornados path and somehow end up in the land of oz. Frank baum, 19 frankenstein mary shelley, 1818 current literary and cultural criticism the cyborg manifesto, donna haraway.
The wiz presented another culturally significant perspective in the big screen. Frank baums the oz film manufacturing company and based upon his book, the patchwork girl of oz. Looking at the weight can help you to decide if it will be the most suitable fabric for its end use. Youd give your whiskers for a lovely variegated complexion like mine. Violet macmillan plays a munchkin boy, but is very obviously a woman. Follow the adventures of a charming band of characters as they join dorothy and the scarecrow to explore the wondrous land of oz. While parts of the wizard of oz get a little trippy, its nothing you wouldnt see in dozens of other movies at the same time. Patchwork girl synonyms, patchwork girl pronunciation, patchwork girl translation, english dictionary definition of patchwork girl. The wonderful wizard of oz, childrens book written by l. Patchwork girl is written in hypertext style to give writer shelly jackson an experimental voice to mold and shape as her own without being transfixed to a still page. The wonderful wizard of oz, the marvellous land of oz, ozma of oz, dorothy and the wizard in oz, the road to oz, the emerald city of oz, patchwork girl of oz and more l. The patchwork girl of oz was not wellreceived at the time of its release. Flickering connectivities in shelley jacksons patchwork girl.
The story begins with a visit by a young munchkin lad, ojo the unlucky, who with his unc nunkie visit a reclusive magician, dr. The magical practices and potions of the land of oz is the thread running through the patchwork girl. Quotes from the story such as toto, i have a feeling were not in kansas anymore, lions, and tigers, and bears. Frank baum is a childrens novel, the 7th set in the land of oz. The patchwork girl 19 was the first new oz book after the brief hiatus, and much of its charm resides in the sense of a fresh start. Shelley jacksons patchwork girl 1995 allows the reader can click on different parts of the patchwork girl s anatomy. Many of the immigrants setting about making a new life for themselves in america had a saying the streets ar.
Patchwork girl definition of patchwork girl by the free. Read the following passages and determine the narrative perspective, then explain how you were able to identify the point of view if the passage is third person, explain which characters thoughts. Venice when writing these oz tales that seemingly address the meaning of life. The patchwork girl blatantly, from her movements, a tall, energetic male tumbler runs amok and, in a piece of missing footage, douses three supporting cast members in petrifying powder. At one gory stage, her parts go their separate ways, and the girl has to learn how to put herself together again. The reader is exposed to different lexia or units of text depending on how they navigate and therefore, each reader could ostensibly have a quantifiably different experience of reading the narrative. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Due to a combination of values dissonance, fridge horror, and intended creepiness, the series contains quite a large amount of nightmarish potential. Interestingly, oz the great and powerful seems to inadvertently nod to this reading a bit, in that in the new film the wicked witch of the east initially presents herself as a good witch, and. The patchwork girl of oz oz series book 7 kindle edition by baum, l. The patchwork girl of oz 1914 the 1st oz feature film. Rather than tell a story from start to finish and present it as a knowable whole, patchwork girl layers streams of consciousness, snippets of histories, and decontextualized theoretical statements to explore the meaning that can emerge through the juxtaposition of fragments.
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Within the patchwork, there are clear, bold stories that the reader follows avidly. A modern fairy tale with a distinctly american setting, a delightfully levelheaded and assertive heroine, and engaging fantasy characters, the story was enormously popular and became a classic of childrens literature. Frank baum wrote his next installment, the patchwork girl of oz, in 19. Anyone in a fairy country like the land of oz can do anything believing that the modern fairy. Thats because the narrative is really scantwith almost no intertitle cards. The story and the images utilized to create patchwork girl uses this breakage from traditional writing and parallels it with the voice and perspective of a female narrative. The land of oz books are childrens books classics, but that doesnt mean everything in them is child friendly. Supposedly, theres humor in characters jumping around and moving about erratically. In the narrative sense, the term highlights important points which have consequences within the story, according to ansen dibell.
Thus, when we appropriate their words, style, and other narrative. Meet a living girl made out of patchwork quilts, a conceited glass cat, and the lovable blockheaded woozy. The patchwork girl of ozchapter 9 wikisource, the free. After a twoyear hiatus from writing books in the land of oz series in 19111912, l. The patchwork girl of ozchapter 4 wikisource, the free. So now theres a proper plot, though the film struggles to keep its mind focused on it. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the patchwork girl of oz oz series book 7. Dec 17, 2008 the wonderful wizard of oz also often called just the wizard of oz the marvelous land of oz ozma of oz dorothy and the wizard in oz the road to oz the emerald city of oz the patchwork girl of oz. That meant no daring experiments in narrative technique. Patchwork girl is categorized as a borgesian structure of information, due to its nonlinearity. Thinking it both unfair and unkind to deprive her of any good qualities that were handy, boy took down every bottle on the shelf and poured some of. In fact, it became clear after closer analysis that the wizard of oz had been basically skewering all of the interest groups and political ideologies that had been influential or popular at the time, including populism, and when the book was read from this perspective, the allegorical nature of the work became all but impossible to ignore. The green of the emerald city represents the dollar. She first appeared in the patchwork girl of oz history.
The term point of view has many applications, from video game development to the interpretation of art. Scraps is a character from the fantasy oz book series by l. The wicked witch of the east represents bankers, and the wicked witch of the west who, remember, gets killed by water is drought. The book was first published on july 1, 19, with illustrations by john r. Patchwork girl sometimes called a new standard in hypertext fiction consists of 323 lexias, 462 links inspirations novels the patchwork girl of oz l. The patchwork girl of oz 1914 the new wizard of oz 1914 the patchwork girl of. The patchwork girl joins and tey set out for the real adventure. This is a demeaning message for kids who are likely to worry about being teased for their own faults, however minute.
Characters include the woozy, ojo the unlucky, unc nunkie, dr. Here she encounters some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the wizard of oz who everyone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friends their. Mediaspecific analysis attends both to the specificity of the formthe. Wizard of oz narrative reflect the significance of the themes of gender, race, home. The patchwork girl of oz, unlike its selig polyscope predecessors, was a featurelength production running over eighty minutesat least at the time of its first release. The patchwork girl of oz oz series book 7 kindle edition.
My fathers dragon the sequels had their s renewed, but not the first book nautical folklore. Jacksons work includes quotations from the novels of both shelley and baum, plus material from jacques derrida, donna haraway, and other writers. The patchwork girl of oz by lyman frank baum unc nunkie, margolotte and. Oz itself is the abbreviation for ounce, which is the standard for measuring gold. Within the narrative fiction of frankenstein, the monsters body is created. Scraps is a teenaged possibly fourteen living rag doll made of patchwork, button eyes, brown yarn hair, a felt tongue, and pearl teeth. As soon as breakfast was over they all went into the magicians big workshop, where the glass cat was lying before the mirror and the patchwork girl lay limp and lifeless upon the bench. Identifying the narrative perspective point of view. Gratzs lithe humor delivers some good puns, literary and other allusions and one decent takeoff on whos on first. It is the first featurelength film taking place in the land.
Frank baum is a childrens novel, the seventh in the oz series. If it is thirdperson, which characters thoughts are revealed. Frank baum 1856 1919 an unlucky munchkin boy named ojo must travel around oz gathering the ingredients for an antidote to the liquid of petrifaction which has turned his beloved uncle unc nunkie and the wife of the liquids creator into marble statues. The patchwork girl of oz 1914 and you call yourself a. Ojo, jesseva, the patchwork girl and some of jessevas friends start to look for the woozy and a sixleaved clover while the doctor himself hunts for water from a dark well. The answer is a form of narrative, which is also what stops the texts themselves from floating around like a digital stew. Understanding fabric weight in order to choose the right fabric fabric weight is the outcome of how a fabric has been woven, its finish and sometimes the fibre type. The specter of orality in frankenstein and patchwork girl. Dorothy and the wizard in oz starts at chapter 70, 5.
The patchwork girl of oz is one of the three oz films produced by author l. Point of view narrators perspective ereading worksheets. The patchwork girl of oz 1914 the 1st oz feature film l. Critics appreciated its intentions, but bemoaned its execution. Pipt, in a brisk tone, we shall perform one of the greatest feats of magic possible to man, even in this marvelous land of oz. More than just a childrens story by lauren houlberg the wizard of oz is a classic, a legend, and a childrens story that will never grow old. This page will discuss point of view as it pertains to the study of reading and literature. But the relatively few fine baseball moments are surrounded by what seems like stuffing right out of the patchwork girl, while the meaning of alexs sojourn in ever after is obscured by the crowd. Jun 17, 2018 as soon as breakfast was over they all went into the magicians big workshop, where the glass cat was lying before the mirror and the patchwork girl lay limp and lifeless upon the bench. His new creation, the patchwork girl, must go to the emerald city for help. Read the following passages and determine the narrative perspective, then explain how you were able to identify the point of view if the passage is third person, explain which characters thoughts are revealed. Jul 25, 2017 the patchwork girl of oz, unlike its selig polyscope predecessors, was a featurelength production running over eighty minutesat least at the time of its first release. Along the way, with seven charming songs, she meets the wise donkey, woozy, shaggy man, the pumpkinhead family and a crazy bunch of tottenhots.
The patchwork girl of oz is not about the patchwork girl of oz, but rather is the story of a little munchkin boy and his motley assortment of followers journeying across the land of oz in search of items that will create a magic capable of saving the boys beloved uncle. The pranks of the patchwork girl cause the doctor so much annoyance that he throws her away, but she comes back again on the assumption that she is now one of the family. Finally dorothy, the scarecrow and the tin woodman intervene to win the favor of ozma, the princess of oz. We follow the story linearly from beginning to end, and the action stays more or less centered on the main character the whole time. I have chosen patchwork girl for my tutor text not only because i think it is one of. When studying the perspective of the narrator, the reader is concerned with the relationship between the person telling the story the narrator. Understanding fabric weight in order to choose the right. Of course, there is all the difference in the world between a film for children and a childish film the greatest childrens films are not in the least childish and it was agreed by the critics and the public alike that the oz film manufacturing. Interesting from a historical perspective and having excellent production. Frank baums patchwork girl of oz to create a new work inspired by and in reference to shelley and baums works, reinterpreting their ideas and making them modern.
The work reflects the hypertext labyrinth originally expressed in borges garden of forking paths, since the choices in the narrative allow multiple paths of experience. However, one of those motley followers is the patchwork girl and she absolutely steals the show. Accordingly, jackson draws attention to the dual function of her. In celebration of his birth, we explore the imagination of the author who created the beloved. To get back to kansas, dorothy must slay a nasty enemy, the wicked witch of the west. Neither repeated the success of the books that had made his name and so in 19, because of the bankruptcy and because of the overwhelming number of letters from children asking for more about dorothy, baum published the patchwork girl of oz and became, until his death, the royal historian of oz. While the source print appears to have been transferred to video in high definition, it also appears that the standard definition masters of the silent era oz films prepared for the 2005 warner home video dvd edition noted below, including the patchwork girl of oz, have been utilized without hd remastering for this bluray disc edition. The patchwork girl of oz arrived in july 19 and ensured that reilly and britton. On the body the original body is dissociated, porous and unbiased the mind, on the other hand has an obsession with stasis, centrality, and unity.
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