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This passage is worth study for its point of view. Baum slips from narration into Dorothy's own bewildered thought, What could the little woman possibly mean, letting us feel her confusion from the inside before pulling back to state plainly who she really is. Copying it shows how a writer can move between a character's mind and the narrator's voice, and how a semicolon can join two halves of a single idea.
Dorothy listened to this speech with wonder. What could the little woman possibly mean by calling her a sorceress, and saying she had killed the wicked Witch of the East? Dorothy was an innocent, harm...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Summarize this chapter, then explain what you think Baum most wants the reader to notice or feel as Dorothy arrives in Oz, and identify the techniques that create that effect.
Discussion Questions
- When the Munchkins hail Dorothy as a powerful Sorceress, she insists she has killed nothing. Why does Dorothy answer that way, and what does her response show about the kind of person she is? Use the chapter's details to explain.
- Baum opens this chapter on the marvelous color of Oz immediately after the unrelieved gray of Kansas. Why might an author engineer so abrupt a shift from one palette to the other, and what does the contrast ask the reader to feel? Use the chapter's images to explain.
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Vocabulary
Item 1
A pause that comes from being unsure.
Item 2
In a way that is clear and obvious.
Item 3
Certainly; beyond question.
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