There was no room for him to dream of himself as “a narrator.” What L.
There was no room for his dreaming, or for anyone else’s, only Dorothy’s.
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Indeed, the book’s fairy tale quality had been supplanted in the movie with a psychological drama about a girl trying to make sense of the difficult adults in her life. I realized after talking with him that in his eight-year-old way, he was trying to tell me what the movie was missing was the encouragement for him to use his imagination it was missing fantasy. He told me: “What that movie needed was a narrator.” The next day, after many conversations, he announced that he had worked out what was wrong. When my children and I recently watched The Wizard of Oz together, my eight-year-old son was especially alarmed at the differences between the 1939 movie and the 1900 children’s book: in fact, I would go so far as to say that he was anxious that the two were so different. Naturally, what is different or the same between the movie and the book comes up in conversation, though I usually try my best to leave my literary scholar hat at the door when engaging in pleasure reading and literary discussions at home.
My family has a tradition that after we read a novel together-which we do often, as my children have the fortunate or unfortunate circumstance, depending on how you see it, to have a children’s literature professor as their mother-we watch the movie if there is one.
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