"Although The Wizard of Oz is considered an American classic in film and literature, it was really a parable for the economic woes of American around the turn of the century when it was published in 1900. L. Franklin Baum told of an orphaned Kansas girl swept by a tornado into a fantastic world, but who wants to return home to her aunt and uncle."
http://factoidz.com/the-wizard-of-oz-a-story-about-money-politics-and-corruption-in-the-late-19th-century/

"we represent... the lollipop gang, the lollipop gang, ... the lollipop gang..."



-deep

Baum also was interested in Chickens , raised them and wrote a book . The Book of the Hamburgs, A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing,
and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs.

Here's something on the economic conditions that Baum referred to in his book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893

There you go again, scaring the natives again.

You cant just come out and tell them their books arent literal interpretations of events,

Next you will be trying to explain what a metaphor is.

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