Analysing and emulating Baum's use of unknown characters in 'The Wizard of Oz'
I can analyse how Baum introduces the reader to unknown characters in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and emulate those ideas to create my own unknown character.
Analysing and emulating Baum's use of unknown characters in 'The Wizard of Oz'
I can analyse how Baum introduces the reader to unknown characters in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and emulate those ideas to create my own unknown character.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Dorothy meets three companions on her way to Oz: the Scarecrow, the Tin-Man and the Lion.
- Baum uses language to show the reader that Dorothy is not frightened by meeting any of these characters.
- When creating your own unknown character, you need to consider how your language will make the reader perceive them.
Common misconception
That meeting someone unknown in a strange place will always be scary.
Instead of feeling scared, you might also feel excited or intrigued and you can use language to have this effect on the reader.
Keywords
Infer - to form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have
Connotations - a feeling or idea that is suggested by a word in addition to its basic meaning
Character - a person in a novel, play, or film
Perceive - to attain awareness or understanding of
Create - to cause something to exist, or to make something new or imaginative
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This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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