


The next day on the yellow brick road, she passes by a cornfield and meets and frees a brainless Scarecrow from the pole on which he is hanging upon and invites him to join her on her journey. After a hardy supper, she spends the night at his residence. The celebration is in honor of Dorothy for liberating all of Munchkin Country of its wicked suppresser. On her way down the yellow brick road, Dorothy attends a lavish banquet thrown by the wealthiest of Munchkins, a man named Boq. Before she leaves Dorothy, the Good Witch of the North kisses her on the forehead, for protection and luck.

She is then directed to follow the Yellow Brick Road which will eventually lead her there. The Good Witch of the North explains that the Land of Oz is surrounded by a great Deadly Desert, so in order to find a way home she will have to go to the Emerald City to seek out Oz's most powerful and dominant figure known as the great Wizard to ask him to help her. Dorothy, eager to get back to her aunt and uncle ask how she can return to Kansas. The Good Witch of the North who rules over the Gillikin Country in Oz, comes with three local Munchkin men to greet Dorothy and give her the charmed Silver Shoes (believed to have mysterious magical properties) that the Wicked Witch of the East had been wearing upon her demise. The house also lands on and kills the Wicked Witch of the East, the evil ruler of the native Munchkins, for which they are extremely grateful for finally being freed from her wickedness. The storm deposits the house in a gorgeous meadow in Munchkin Country, the eastern quadrant of the undiscovered realm named the Land of Oz.

One day, a monstrous cyclone hits and Dorothy and Toto are swept away inside their farmhouse which is carried through the air and blown far, far away. She has a little black dog named Toto, who is her sole source of happiness on the dull prairie. Dorothy is a little orphaned girl raised by her hardworking Uncle Henry and his wife Aunt Em in the bleak, gray and colorless landscape of a small, poor and sunbaked Kansas farm.
