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Di Chez's avatar

That was SO interesting! However, why'd you have to ruin my FAV movie?! 🀭🀣

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GL Hendricks's avatar

Just watch the movie again and you'll forget all about it! ❀️

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Di Chez's avatar

LOL Probably true! However, I think I knew about the poppy fields. I don't know how though, but not the snow...🀯🀯🀯 (I DIED laughing at the 'what a bitch' part!!!) 🀣🀣🀣

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Gaslighted's avatar

Nice explanation of the allegory, but wrong mostly. The book was published in 1900. The allegory is about the state of affairs in America in the late 1800s: the state of farmers (the Strawman), industrialists (the Tinman), the Wizard (the rise of the "experts" and their self-proclaimed authority), the yellow brick road is the argument for keeping the dollar on the gold standard versus silver which the Populists wanted, and so on. One needs to understand the country in 1890 to 1900 to get the allegorical references, particularly the election between McKinley and William Jennings Bryan in 1896.

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