Since its first debut in 1900, The Wizard of Oz has become a well known classic in American literature. While most people today opt in for just watching the movie, the book holds so much more culture and information. Comparing the novel to the movie, I think that the movie does a great job of interpreting the way use author describes Kansas to the way he describes the Land of Oz. To depict this, the movie shows Kansas in black and white and when Dorothy enters Oz, the movie switches to color, which was a total coincidence at the time because that’s when color television first came out and they thought it would just make a great edition to the movie. In The Wizard of Oz, the interpretation of the imagery described my the author plays a big part in how we understand the story being told. Again, comparing it to the original movie, by using both black and white, and color imaging, there is an emphasis on the wonders and magical-ness of Oz. Also, it is interesting to know that throughout the many republications of The Wizard of Oz, there have been countless illustrations drawn for the novel. I think that’s really interesting considering that other novels such as Alice in Wonderland and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer still use their original illustrations. The original illustrations for the Wizard of Oz were drawn by W.W. Denslow, now you seldom see the original illustrations. The original illustrations were also printed in green and red because at that time It was very expensive to print in full color. Each different illustration or image that we see impacts our own perspective and interpretation of the novel itself, so it would be interesting to do more research as to why there are so many different versions of the illustrations.