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The Wizard of Oz As an Allegory

When Frank Baum wrote the American classic, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in 1900 it was a popular book for young people to read. Later in 1939, the story became immortalized as a movie, shot partly in black and white and color, starring Judy Garland, as a young farm girl in Kansas who hits her head in a tornado, and dreams she's landed in a mythical world of munchkins, witches, a scarecrow, a tinman and a lion who journey to meet Oz, a powerful magician. However, based on a recent MSN article, "Why pennies still exist and other money trivia"...