Resumo de Oz-zat? Casting The Adult Eye On The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

We are adults. Detached from the world of children where fantasy is important?as important as seeming probabilities. When we read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank.L.Baum many many moons ago we were probably transported into a world where tigers spoke, tin men where real life, scarecrows sought brains, there was yellow brick road, a city of emeralds and an all powerful wizard who could do anything?Sigh! That was then.

Today, as a grown up people (also a cynic at times) we see more than what we read. We believe that magic needs logic and we find ourselves moving further and further away from the world of imagination. So what have we done? We have probably realized that the yellow brick road is not made of gold. We have taken out our green glasses and we see that the emerald city is not green after all?in fact there are no emeralds there! The red ruby slippers are just a figment of our dream that transports us through time and desire. We have looked behind the curtain and seen the real Wizard of Oz.
Is he divine? No.
Is he a marvel? No.
Human? Yes.
So, he isn?t Gandalf afterall.Hallelujah the world makes sense again!

We have stripped the magic off a classic and we sit on our thrones. Feeling great that the great wizard is just another human like us. If he can do anything so can we!! Double sigh!!

The joy of reading actually lies in the joy of imagination and stripping the magic off a classic does nothing but actually foretells a sorry readership in future. Retain the child in your reading habits and the world looks beautiful?look for populists, prohibitionists, military leaders and ministers in a book and all you get is a dreary picture of a chaotic world.

Let?s enjoy books for what they are and not what they might probably mean. One only gets confused if one is always trying to get into the providence of words. Love literature for the love of it. For its ability to create. Lets bring back the Oz. we don?t see munchkins and every other adult we see is either looking for a heart or forgets he owns one. See, the world is Oz after all?why escape it? In my own little world I feel that as adults we should re-read books that we read as children?without looking for fresh perspectives but for transporting ourselves into out of our ?adulthood?. No book is time bound or age bound. And sometimes children?s books are actually meant more for adults than for children. Think?.

No need to click your heels. Where can the tornado take you now?

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