- What Dorothy wants
is attention and love. She does not have parents, and we do not know
what happened, but she is (placed) in the care of her Aunt Em and Uncle
Henry. On this day, Dorothy comes to the farm all upset because of
a situation she habitually creates. She is unconsciously letting Toto
run through Miss Gulch’s garden. So she
goes to the farm, to her family, and is all upset
telling everyone about
this horrible incident...trying to get their
attention. Yet, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry
do not help her. First, they are concerned with
their broken incubator and their chicks that
may go bad. When,
in fact,
that already have
one in their care who is having problems—Dorothy.
Then Aunt Em sends Dorothy off to keep her out
of her hair, not
to help and like
one of the family would. And also, Aunt Em even
has time to make crullers for the farm workers.
- So
Dorothy has upset someone directly in order to win
another’s
(her aunt and uncle's) attention. This then has to
end up as in the cycle
of bad karma--what comes around goes around.
How out of this cycle of
pain will love be created?
- Miss
Gulch is just (perhaps) a lonely older lady
being pestered by this little girl’s annoying scheming and she is finally going to take
away Dorothy’s dog. Also, why must Dorothy torment Miss Gulch?
Miss Gulch first of all is an easy target to pick on, but there’s
also a connection Dorothy may see.
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- She
may see Miss Gulch’s loneliness and it
unconsciously grates on her nerves. She's to the point that she has
to fight what
she may become--bitter from not finding the love she yearns for in
her environment.
- Dorothy decides
she must run away to protect Toto, for Aunt Em and Uncle Henry
would not stand up for Dorothy (and Toto). Toto is the one she is able
to shower her love on, however, she is willing to harm him, for the
love of someone that she imagines there to be. She is also running
away to find a magical place, somewhere different and colorful with
actual living, not just a dull environment that the Kansas
farm is (to her). To her, the Rainbow was the only colorful thing in
Kansas. Her singing brought her away from her dreariness in a better
fashion than bothering others would.
- While running
away, she
meets up with a (carnival) wizard who shows her that she needs
to return to her family, Dorothy discovers that she does love Aunt
Em,
again, etc. So her karmic repeating cycle is going to continue
again. It is so out of control that it turns into a cyclone--her
bad karma
must be stopped. Next
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