Theme: Home and Belonging

From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Dorothy's longing for gray Kansas over technicolor Oz is the novel's emotional spine--home is defined by love, not beauty.
Chapter 4
No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful.
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Chapter 11

Dorothy explains to the Wizard why she must return: 'Kansas is not a beautiful country... but I would rather be there.'

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