{"id":379,"date":"2022-02-23T21:09:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T21:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/?p=379"},"modified":"2022-02-23T21:09:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T21:09:35","slug":"what-on-earth-is-the-wizard-of-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/02\/23\/what-on-earth-is-the-wizard-of-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"What on earth is The Wizard of Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The communicator of&nbsp;<em>The Wizard of Oz&nbsp;<\/em>is Frank Baum, the author, and Dorothy, the protagonist. I believe the text truly speaks to adults, because if you analyze it deep enough, the characters and themes have a much deeper level than what is seen on the surface. Children aren\u2019t able to pick up on this, but adults are able to process and analyze the deeper meaning within the story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quote from chapter 18: \u201cThe road is straight to the South,\u201d he answered, \u201cbut it is said to be full of dangers to travelers. There are wild beasts in the woods.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dorothy is with her newly found friends, such as the Scarecrow and the Woodman, and they are looking for a way to cross the desert to go South. The soldier tells them that know one knows, except for the Witch of the South. The soldier tells them that they will have to follow the road \u201cstraight to the South\u201d to find her. The soldier has ethos, or credibility because he has been living there for a long time, and he knows of the castle. There is pathos by giving fear to the audience in the line, \u201cit is said to be full of dangers to travelers.\u201d Finally, there is a sense of logos in the term \u201cwild beasts.\u201d The animals that dwell on the road to the south are considered both wild and beasts. Both of these terms, especially wild, can appeal to the audience logically, as they understand the dangers that Dorothy will face can be very uncontrollable and unexpected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Major Wheless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The communicator of&nbsp;The Wizard of Oz&nbsp;is Frank Baum, the author, and Dorothy, the protagonist. I believe the text truly speaks to adults, because if you analyze it deep enough, the characters and themes have a much deeper level than what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/02\/23\/what-on-earth-is-the-wizard-of-oz\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}