The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Setting
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz transports readers from the bleak, gray Kansas prairie to the dynamic, colorful Land of Oz. Dorothy leaves Kansas by traveling with her old farmhouse in a cyclone to initiate her adventures, then returns home to a new farmhouse which is not described but represents her transformation. Dorothy's prairie world is drab. No trees or neighboring houses or structures are nearby. The plowed sod is sun-baked and cracked, and most of the grass has been burnt into short, gray blades to form a "flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions."...
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