What influenced L Frank Baum to write the book The Wizard of Oz?

Answer 1

Author and Oz series originator Lyman Frank Baum [May 15, 1856-May 5, 1919] was looking at the alphabetical tags to his file cabinet drawers when he suddenly noticed the tag on the drawer O-Z.

Answer 2

Frankly, he wrote the book because he needed money. He wrote the story because he wanted to create an American fairy tale that had a happy ending and a positive moral. (The word grim comes from the brothers Grim, who wrote many Fairy Tales. The original versions of the stories were much more gruesome than the Disney versions popular today.)

Answer 3

Author and Oz series originator Lyman Frank Baum [May 15, 1856-May 5, 1919] wrote an introduction to his book The Wizard of Oz. On that page, he explained that he was writing a fairy tale for the enjoyment of children. On other occasions, he added that he did so also to provide income for his family. In both regards, he wanted to pioneer a more pleasurabletelling of tales, for more pleasurable reactions in young readers. For he felt that the bloodier tales of yesteryear were written with a purpose. They in fact taught morals by way of adventures that were full of heartaches for the story's characters, and full of nightmares for the story's readers. And he felt that his fairy tale would instead cherish the joy and wonderment of children by putting both in his book.

Answer 4

Author and Oz series originator Lyman Frank Baum [May 15, 1856-May 5, 1919] was looking at the alphabetical tags to his file cabinet drawers when he suddenly noticed the drawer with the files O-Z.

Answer 5

In the Introduction to The Wizard of Oz, author L. Frank Baum [May 15, 1856-May 5, 1919] described healthy children as instinctively loving "fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal" stories. Such stories could be in the form of fairy tales, folk lore, legends, or myths. Whatever the form, but especially in the case of fairy tales, there was always a moral. Baum agreed with having the moral, and liked the fairy tale format. But he disagreed with the "heart-aches and nightmares" that their "horrible and bloodcurdling" events could bring on in children. So he sought to modernize and update the fairy tale by combining moral with entertainment, "wonderment and joy."

Answer 6

Baum saw a drawer on his file cabinet labeled O-Z.