Reading Notes W7: Baum Part B

• The setting of the story seems to be around San Francisco, while a little girls is waiting for the train.
• The little girl ends up being Dorothy just much younger.
• After some time they meet a boy and his horse and it turns out the horse can talk.
• The ground then splits open which is symbolism for the big earthquake from 1906.
• It's interesting to see the historical aspect that the author used to incorporate a disaster like that earthquake into his novel.
• "Suddenly there was a rending, tearing sound, and the earth split into another great crack just beneath the spot where the horse was standing." (Frank Baum, "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz", 350).