“There’s No Place Like Home!”

Dorothy lives in Kansas where things look in all gray. Aunt and uncle who she lives with are so tired of their lives as they almost forget the way to laugh. So in a little uneasy situation, Dorothy wonders “Is there any place where isn’t any trouble.” The story of Oz starts with just about the reality. When a real tornado hits the land of Kansas, her house floats in the air, and arrive at a beautiful, mysterious world. She flew to the bright shiny colored world from dark grayish world. After she saw the world of Oz, did she think the Oz as the place with no troubles?

Oz, the land where the wonderful Wizard of Oz and witches govern, is the place with full of various bright colors. People in there are very satisfying and happy with their lives. The contrast of sepia and colorful seems big. Of course the world of colorful looks more exciting than the world of all gray. So Dorothy smiles when she first saw the world of Oz. And the emerald is the gem of jewelry, which represents the beauty. The colorfulness and excitement of Oz was just the right image of west coast, California, where people at the time yearned very much for.
But there are characters that have complexes, flashy sovereign who doesn’t keep his words, system that alter easily… The Oz where Dorothy travels seems very bright but somehow it looks inharmonious and restless. There were problems that make us feel it reality.

Let’s see our society— Some parts look all gray with business buildings, exhaust fumes, and garbage. But most of the cities are full of colors that is glow out from the city itself and the people there. Also we have art and entertainment to show beauty and excitements. People are able to feel happiness with those. The negativities of our society would be the big quantity of crime, or fighting. And people tend to think that money is everything, which causes a lot of stress.

It sounds like our society is far from utopia. But even in this world, love and hope are filled!

Dorothy said about Oz as “ Some of it wasn’t very nice, but most of it was beautiful. But just the same, all I kept saying to everyone was ‘I want to go home.’“ Dorothy knew that the oz is the utopia, but her home –where aunt and uncle who love her and she loves—was more the utopia for her.

People tend to hope for non-existing good place as utopia, but if you take a look at reality, is it so bad? Maybe you’ll feel “ There’s no place like home!”