Proverbs for the lion from the wizard of the emerald city.

The hurricane, caused by the evil sorceress Gingema, carried the caravan with Ellie and Totoshka through the impassable desert and mountains. The good sorceress Villina directed the van so that it landed directly on Gingema's head and crushed it. Villina tells Ellie that she can return her to Kansas. great wizard Goodwin, who lives in the Emerald City. To return home, Ellie must help three creatures fulfill their deepest desires. Accompanied by Toto, who miraculously spoke, the girl sets off along the yellow brick road to the Emerald City. (Before leaving, Toto brings Ellie Gingema's silver slippers.) On the way, Ellie meets the revived scarecrow Scarecrow, whose cherished desire is to get brains, the Tin Woodman, who dreams of returning his lost heart, and the Cowardly Lion, who lacks the courage to become a real king of animals. All together they go to the Emerald City to the wizard Goodwin, the Great and Terrible, to ask him to fulfill them cherished desires. Having experienced many adventures (an attack by the Man-Eater, a meeting with Saber-toothed Tigers, crossing a river, crossing a poppy field) and making friends at the same time, they get to the Emerald City. (At the end of the third adventure, Ellie meets the queen of the field mice, Ramina, who gives her a silver whistle so that the girl can call her when necessary.) However, Goodwin agrees to fulfill their wishes on one condition - they must free the Violet Country from the power of the evil sorceress Bastinda, sister deceased Gingema. Ellie and her friends consider such an enterprise hopeless, but still decide to try.

At first they are lucky: they repel the attacks of wolves, crows and bees sent by Bastinda, but the Flying Monkeys, summoned by Bastinda with the help of the magic Golden Cap, destroy the Scarecrow and the Woodcutter and take the Lion prisoner. Ellie remains unharmed only because she is protected by magic silver shoes, found by Toto in Gingema's cave. Bastinda, unlike Ellie, knows about magical power his sister's shoes and hopes to take them away from the girl by cunning. One day she almost succeeded, but Ellie doused Bastinda with water from a bucket, and the evil sorceress melted (after all, she was predicted to die from water and therefore she did not wash herself for five hundred years!). Ellie, with the help of the freed Winks, brings the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman back to life, and the Winks ask the Woodman to become their ruler, to which he replies that he must first get the heart.

The company returned victorious, but Goodwin is in no hurry to fulfill their wishes. And when they finally achieve an audience, it turns out that Goodwin is not really a wizard, but just a common person, once brought to the Magic Land in a hot air balloon. Even the numerous emeralds that decorate the city are mostly simple glass, appearing green due to the green glasses that everyone in the city is required to wear (supposedly to protect their eyes from the blinding shine of emeralds). However, the cherished wishes of Ellie’s companions are still fulfilled. In fact, the Scarecrow, the Woodcutter and the Lion had long possessed the qualities they dreamed of, but they simply lacked self-confidence. Therefore, the symbolic bag of needles, rag heart and liquid “for courage” prepared by Goodwin help friends gain intelligence, kindness and courage. Ellie also finally gets the opportunity to return home: Goodwin, tired of posing as a wizard, decides to fix his balloon and return home with Ellie and Toto. He appoints the Scarecrow the Wise as his successor. However, just before departure, the wind breaks the rope holding the balloon, and Goodwin flies away alone, leaving Ellie in Fairyland.

On the advice of the Longbeard Soldier Dean Gior, friends, including the Scarecrow who temporarily left the throne, set off on a new journey - to the distant Pink Country, to the good sorceress Stella. On this path, dangers also await them, the main one of which is the flood that caught them on an island in the middle of the Big River. Having found each other after the flood and crossed the river, Ellie and her companions find themselves in a forest in which animals seek protection from a huge arachnid monster. The Lion kills the Spider, and the animals recognize him as their king.

Finally, Ellie gets to the Pink Country, and the good sorceress Stella reveals to her the secret of the silver slippers: they can transport their owner to any distance, and Ellie can return to Kansas at any time. Here the friends say goodbye, the Scarecrow, the Woodcutter and the Lion go to the nations whose rulers they have become (the Flying Monkeys take them there on the orders of the sorceress Stella, to whom Ellie gives the Golden Cap), and Ellie returns home to her parents.

Main characters

Brave travelers

Wizards

Gingema (evil)
Villina (kind)
Bastinda (evil)
Stella (kind)
Goodwin (kind, wise) - did not have magical abilities, but skillfully passed himself off as a wizard.

Positive characters

Negative characters

Neutral characters

Book design

Differences between the 1959 version and the original

Plot discrepancies

Although, if you wish, you can briefly retell the plot of “The Wizard of Oz” and “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” using the same words, the differences between these books are very numerous and go far beyond the retelling in another language and the replacement of proper names, as it might seem at first glance Here is short list main differences:

The main character is named Ellie Smith, not Dorothy Gale, and has parents (John and Anna Smith), while Dorothy is an orphan living with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em.
Volkov's description of the girl's Kansas life is less gloomy than Baum's.
Although Baum's Dorothy is literate, reading occupies a very insignificant place in her life. Volkov's Ellie is well read, she reads not only fairy tales, but also educational books (for example, about ancient saber-toothed tigers), and habitually leaves inscriptions.
The hurricane that brought Ellie to the Magic Land was caused by the evil sorceress Gingema, who wants to devastate the world, and the house is directed at Gingema by the magic of Villina (in Baum this hurricane is a common disaster, and the death of the sorceress is an accident).
A portrait of Gingema is given as a powerful sorceress, she is called the sister of Bastinda. Baum only talks about the sorceress of the East unpleasant memories local residents, and the sorceress of the West is not her sister.
When meeting the good witch, Dorothy says, “I thought all witches were evil.” Ellie: “Are you a sorceress? But why did my mother tell me that there are no wizards now?”
Totoshka, once in the Magic Land, begins to speak humanly, like all the animals in the country. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he remains speechless (although in one of the subsequent books it turns out that he also knew how to speak, but did not want to).
Volkov’s magical land is no longer accessible; it is fenced off not only by the desert, but by a continuous ring chain of impassable mountain ranges.
The orientation of parts of the Magic Land to the cardinal points is a mirror image of Oz: if Baum Blue Country Where Dorothy begins her journey is in the east, while Volkov has it in the west.
The names of countries by color have been changed: Baum's Yellow Country corresponds to Volkov's Purple Country, and vice versa. Volkov's arrangement of countries is generally less logical; the pattern according to which the intermediate color of the spectrum - green - is located between the extremes is lost. But another pattern arises - the countries of evil sorceresses are of “cold” colors, the countries of good sorceresses are of “warm” colors.
In The Wizard of Oz, the witches are not named, with the exception of Glinda, the Good Witch of the South. In Volkov's book, the good sorceress of the Pink Country is called Stella, and the sorceresses of the North, East and West are given the names Villina, Gingema and Bastinda, respectively.
In Volkov, the people of the Magic Land are distinguished by characteristic signs: Winkers blink their eyes, Munchkins move their jaws. Baum has no such features, only names.
In Volkov, the wizard's name is Goodwin, and the country is called Fairyland; in Baum's, the country is called Oz, and the wizard's name is Oscar Zoroaster Fadrigue Isaac Norman Henkle Emmanuel Ambrose Diggs. He himself pronounces only initials and does not name last letters, forming the word "Pinhead", which means "Fool".
Ellie receives a prediction of three cherished wishes that must be fulfilled so that she can return to Kansas. No conditions are set for Dorothy; at the same time, she is not given any promise, except for a brief instruction - to go to the Emerald City. In addition, she receives a Magic Kiss from the Good Witch of the North, guaranteeing her safe road, and the whole difficulty is only in the walking path itself. Ellie’s path is not only long, but also deadly, and without reliable friends, almost insurmountable.
Dorothy gets magic shoes, and subsequently a golden hat (along with the castle), as a legal inheritance from the sorceresses she killed. Ellie gets both the shoes and the hat, in general, by accident.
According to Baum, the crow, which advised the Scarecrow to get brains, taught the other birds not to be afraid of him. Volkov does not directly mention this. The crow itself is described by Volkov as “big, disheveled,” while by Baum it is “old.”
The woodcutter in Volkov's books (and - according to established tradition - in most subsequent Russian translations of fairy tales about the land of Oz) is made of iron. Baum's is made of tin. Volkov’s scarecrow, unlike Baum’s, easily “loses face” - the painted eyes and mouth are washed off with water.
Between meeting the Woodcutter and meeting the Cowardly Lion, Volkov inserts additional chapter, in which the Ogre kidnaps Ellie. The Scarecrow and the Woodcutter manage to free the girl and kill the Ogre.
According to Baum, in the forest between the ravines it is not Saber-toothed tigers that live, but Kalidas - creatures with the body of a bear, the head of a tiger and such long teeth that any of them could tear a lion to pieces.
Volkov gives the name of the queen of the field mice (Ramina) and clearly indicates that when she said goodbye, she left Ellie a silver whistle with which she could be summoned. In Baum, the Mouse Queen simply says that Dorothy can call her at any time by going out into the field, although Dorothy subsequently calls the Mouse Queen precisely with the help of a whistle, which had not previously appeared in the story.
In Baum, the guard guarding the wizard’s palace immediately lets travelers through; he is simply called “a soldier with green sideburns.” Volkov gives him the name Din Gior and introduces a scene with combing his beard.
Goodwin, sending Ellie and her friends to the Violet Country, orders them to deprive Bastinda of power, no matter how. Oz gives Dorothy explicit orders to kill the evil witch.
The words of the spell that summons the Flying Monkeys have been changed - like all spells in Volkov’s books, they are more melodic and do not require special accompanying gestures, such as standing on one leg, as was the case with Baum.
The Flying Monkeys do not harm Ellie out of fear of the silver slippers. According to Baum, the girl is protected by the kiss of the good sorceress of the North, which is not mentioned at all in Volkov.
Ellie's time in captivity with Bastinda is described in much more detail, the image of the cook Fregoza appears, and the motive of preparing an uprising against Bastinda is added.
In Baum, Dorothy does not know that the Witch of the West is afraid of water. In Volkov, Ellie knows about this fear of Bastinda (she sometimes even used water spilled on the floor to temporarily get rid of the sorceress), but does not assume that water is mortally dangerous for her.
To take away Baum's silver slipper, the sorceress used a wire that she made invisible. At Volkov's, Bastinda lost all her magical tools and used the extended rope.
For Volkov, by the time Ellie was captured, Bastinda had ceased to be a sorceress and she can now be easily defeated by human forces. In Baum, despite the fact that the evil sorceress has lost her magical allies, she retains the ability to perform witchcraft.
Bastinda, when Ellie pours water on her, explains that she has not washed her face for centuries because she received a prophecy about death from water. In Baum, the Witch of the West simply states that the water will kill her, and then tells Dorothy that she remains the mistress of the castle, and admits that she was very evil during her life.
Volkov's story of the Flying Monkeys is described in much less detail than Baum's.
At Volkov's, Totoshka detects Goodwin hiding behind a screen by smell. According to Baum, Toto exposes the wizard by accident when he jumps aside, frightened by the Lion's roar.
Goodwin, like Ellie, is from Kansas. Oz is from Omaha, near Kansas. Goodwin, before becoming an aeronaut, was an actor who played kings and heroes, while Oz was a ventriloquist.
In Baum, the Wizard’s successor remains a “scarecrow on the throne” in a shabby blue caftan and worn-out boots; in Volkov, the Scarecrow is an esthete and a dandy, beginning his reign by updating his own costume (which he dreamed of back in the field).
According to Baum, the path to the Good Witch of the South passes through a forest with warring trees and the Porcelain Country. In Volkov, these countries are completely absent, but a chapter with flooding is added, since Volkov changed the direction of the flow and the path of the main river of the Magic Land. For him it flows from north to south, and then east to the Migunov country (for Baum, this river flows from the south, turns west, passing very close to the Emerald City a little north, and flows further to the west. Thus, it is not obstacle on the way from the Emerald City to the Pink Country).
The last obstacle on the way to the Pink Country for Volkov turns out to be not the Hammer-Heads, but the Jumpers (Marranos) (however, in the first edition of the book they were described as “armless little men shooting with heads,” which made them more similar to Hammerheads).
Ellie summons the Flying Monkeys in Jumperland after Toto tells her that after the third wish, she can give the Golden Cap to any of her friends (Ellie then promises it to the Scarecrow). Dorothy has no plans to use the Flying Monkeys in the future.
According to Volkov, the Pink Country is inhabited by Chatterboxes - lovers of chatting; according to Baum, the Red Country and its inhabitants are no different from the rest of the people in the country of Oz, except for their preference for the color red.
Returning to Kansas, Ellie meets Goodwin in a nearby town. Baum does not have this episode.

Differences between emotional and semantic dominant

Comparison « The Amazing Wizard the country of Oz" and "The Wizard of Oz" showed significant differences between these works in terms of emotional and semantic dominance. While the original text can be considered neutral or polydominant (with elements of “beautiful” and “cheerful” text), Volkov’s adaptation is a “dark” text. This is evident in references to shifts that Baum does not have. emotional states, vocabulary with the semes “fear”, “laughter”, detailed descriptions (with super redundant transfer of the sizes of objects and external characteristics characters), more vocabulary with the “sound” component, onomatopoeia. A very common semantic component is water: rain and river flooding are the main event of the chapter “Flood” added by Volkov, in the description of Goodwin’s palace there are ponds, fountains, a ditch with water - details that are not in the original, a mention of a stream also appears in the description of a ravine, crossing the road. Another feature of Volkov’s text is frequent exclamatory sentences, especially in passages that were not in the original.

Translations

Despite the fact that the book itself is a translation, it has been translated into many languages, including English and German, and published in almost all former socialist countries.

The first German edition of The Wizard was published in the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany in the mid-1960s. Over the course of 40 years, the book went through 10 editions; even after the reunification of Germany, when for East Germans Baum’s original books have become available, translations of Volkov’s books continue to be published in consistently sold-out editions. Some changes were made to the text of the 11th edition, published in 2005, and subsequent ones, and the book also received a new design. However, in 2011, due to numerous demands from readers, the publishing house was forced to return to publishing the book in the old design, in the old version of the translation, and even with a “traditional” afterword exposing the shortcomings of the capitalist system.

Afterword

Additionally

Screen adaptations and productions

“The Wizard of the Emerald City” - puppet television show (Central Television, USSR,). Director: Nina Zubareva. The roles were voiced by: Maria Vinogradova,

Our work is devoted to studying the role of proper names in expressing the author's thoughts. As research material, we took the fairy tale story by Alexander Melentyevich Volkov “The Wizard of the Emerald City”. This problem seems important to us, since work of art The writer uses all expressions and names not accidentally, but deliberately. With their help, he tries to draw a special, imagined world.

In order to understand the work well, readers should try to imagine the images of the characters and the pictures described by the author. The ability to explain the meaning of proper names used by the writer in the work can help with this.

The work is a classification of the names of the characters in the fairy tale “The Wizard of the Emerald City” with elements of their interpretation.

The history of the creation of A. M. Volkov’s fairy tale “The Wizard of the Emerald City”

“The Wizard of the Emerald City” is a fairy-tale story by Alexander Melentyevich Volkov, written in 1939 and a reworking of Frank Baum’s fairy tale “The Wizard of Oz.”

Alexander Melentyevich Volkov was born on July 14, 1891. The future writer was not even four years old when his father taught him to read, and since then he has become an avid reader. By education, Alexander Melentyevich was a mathematics teacher. However, he knew several well foreign languages and decided to study further English language. For practice, he tried to translate a fairy tale American writer Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz. He liked the book. He began to retell it to his two sons. At the same time, redoing something, adding something. The girl's name began to be Ellie, not Dorothy. Totoshka (Alexander Volkov kept his name, giving only a Russian “look” with the help of the suffix shk), once in the Magic Land, begins to speak like a human. The Wizard of Oz gained a name and title - The Great and Powerful Wizard Goodwin In The Wizard of Oz, the witches are not named, with the exception of Glinda, the Good Witch of the South. In Volkov's book, the good sorceress of the Pink Country is called Stela, and the sorceress of the North, East and West is named Villina, Gingema and Bastinda, respectively.

Many other cute, funny, sometimes almost imperceptible changes have appeared. And when the translation, or, more precisely, the retelling, was completed, it suddenly became clear that this was no longer quite Baum’s “The Wizard.”

The writer's subsequent books about famous heroes were no longer in any way connected with F. Baum. In total, Volkov wrote six fairy tales about the Emerald City.

Classification of proper names in the fairy tale “The Wizard of the Emerald City”

There are 34 names in the story. Of these, 23 names belong to positive characters, 6 names belong to negative characters, and 5 belong to neutral ones.

Having turned to the meaning of proper names and thinking about their sound, we have identified 5 groups of proper names.

Scarecrow, Squirrel, Stork, Ogre, Spider, Chatterboxes.

These are phrases that describe the characters.

Tin Woodman, Cowardly Lion, Flying Monkeys, Saber-Toothed Tigers.

The names of groups 1 and 2 are sometimes used by the author in literally(Ogre, Spider), and sometimes when reading a fairy tale they have new meaning(The Scarecrow is not scary at all, the Cowardly Lion is actually very brave, and the Tin Woodman has a soft and kind heart).

These are real proper names that are found in real world of people.

Ellie, John, Anna, Robert, Bob, Dick, Rolf, James, dog name Toto (Totoshka), Stela.

All names are in English as it takes place in Kansas. The author thus creates a real world of people and makes the fairy tale believable, which is why we call it a fairy tale story.

Unusual proper names, invented by the author, but understandable to us, since they contain characteristics of the heroes.

Munchkins, Winkers.

Villina, Gingema, Bastinda, Goodwin, Fregosa, Prem Cocus, Don Gior, Warra, Faramant, Ramina, Flinta, Lestar, Marrana.

Names goodies sound softer, more tender: Villina, Stella, Flinta, Ramina.

Names negative characters have an unpleasant, harsh sound: Gingema, Bastinda, Marrana, Warra.

Of all the names in this group, the name Goodwin is the most understandable: it has part of the root from the English “good” (good). The key to this image lies in its name. Goodwin was not an evil person, he only seemed scary, so he defended himself when he found himself in an unfamiliar fairyland.

Conclusion

In Alexander Volkov's fairy tale, a world of good and evil heroes is created. Good defeats evil, so there are many more good characters. There are 23 good ones, 6 evil ones, the rest are neutral. By using different names for his characters, the author ensures that the world of his fairy tale is either realistic or, on the contrary, becomes unusual. The names sometimes “play” with us (Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion), sometimes they give us hints (Villina, Stella, Goodwin).

Thus, understanding the meaning of the name helps to better understand the work of art

The main character of the fairy tale “The Wizard of the Emerald City” is the little girl Ellie. She lived with her parents in the steppe, in a small house. But the hurricane moved this house, along with Ellie and her dog Totoshka, to magical land. The house fell directly on the evil sorceress Gingema, who caused a terrible hurricane. The good sorceress Villina predicted to the girl that the Great Goodwin would return her home if she helped three creatures fulfill their cherished desires.

The great Goodwin lived in the Emerald City. A yellow brick road led there, along which the girl and her dog set off. Ellie had new silver shoes on her feet, which Totoshka had brought from the cave of the deceased Gingema. At the beginning of her journey, the girl met a straw scarecrow named Scarecrow in the field. His greatest desire was to acquire brains. He decided to go with Ellie to the Great Goodwin.

In one forest they helped the Tin Woodman. He rusted and stood in one place, raising an ax, whole year. The woodcutter was generously oiled and he could move again. Having found out where Ellie, Totoshka and the Scarecrow were going, he asked to go with them. The Tin Woodman dreamed of getting a real heart. The friendly company hit the road.

Soon they met the cowardly Leo, who also had a cherished dream - to become brave like other lions. The lion joined the travelers walking along the yellow brick road.

Along the way they experienced many adventures. First, the travelers had to cross a wide chasm. The Scarecrow suggested cutting down the tree and crossing it like a bridge. But when everyone got over the abyss, saber-toothed tigers set off in pursuit of them along the tree. The lion, although cowardly, stopped the tigers with his roar, and then the Scarecrow realized that it was necessary to cut down the tree. The woodcutter immediately did this, and the tigers fell into the abyss.

Then a wide river stood in the way of the company. And again the Scarecrow, who had straw instead of brains, came up with the idea that he should make a raft and cross the river on it. The woodcutter cut down trees for the raft, and Lev helped drag them to the shore. The next day they began the crossing. But the raft got carried away fast current. The cowardly Leo had to climb into the water, even though he was afraid to swim and pull the raft to the other side.

The travelers continued moving, but soon they found themselves in a poppy field, which put the girl and the dog to sleep. The Lion also began to fall asleep, but the Scarecrow told him to run forward as quickly as possible. And then the Scarecrow and the Woodcutter carried Ellie and Toto out of the treacherous field in their arms. And Lev did not have time to reach the end of the field and also fell asleep. But field mice helped save him. Thousands of mice came and pulled the Lion to safety.

Soon the travelers reached the Emerald City. The Great Goodwin listened to their wishes, but said that he would fulfill them if Ellie and her friends freed the Violet Country from the evil sorceress Bastinda.

The friends had to go on a new journey, which immediately began with adventure. Bastinda learned that trespassers had invaded her domain, and sent a pack of wolves to deal with the brave souls. But the Tin Woodman managed to defeat all the wolves. Then Bastinda sent evil crows with steel beaks to her friends, but the Scarecrow dealt with the crows. The evil sorceress had to use the terrible black bees, but the trick invented by the Scarecrow helped to cope with them too. Bastinda had no choice but to send the Miguns, residents of the Violet Country, to fight Ellie and her friends. But the cowardly Lion scared away all the miguns with his menacing roar. Then Bastinda used her last chance. She summoned a flock of flying monkeys. They dealt with Ellie's friends, but did not touch her because of the silver shoes that the girl was wearing. They brought Ellie to Bastinda and flew away. At first, the evil sorceress was frightened when she saw her sister’s magic shoes on the girl, but then she realized that Ellie knew nothing about the magical power of the shoes and left the girl as her captive.

They managed to escape from captivity when Ellie realized that Bastinda was afraid of water. She poured a bucket of water on the evil sorceress and it melted. Ellie and her friends, with the help of the flying monkeys, who now served the girl as the owner of Bastinda's golden cap, returned to the gates of the Emerald City.

The great Goodwin did not accept the winners of Bastinda for a long time. But finally the reception took place. Ellie and her friends demanded the fulfillment of their cherished desires. At this time, Totoshka rushed behind the screen, barking, and a short man jumped out. It turned out that Goodwin is an ordinary person, and not a wizard. He got to a magical land in a hot air balloon. The inhabitants of a magical land at one time mistook him for a wizard, and he long years ruled the Emerald City through deception. But now his secret has been revealed. Goodwin couldn't give Ellie's friends what they asked for. But he noted that the Scarecrow himself is quite smart, the Woodcutter is kind-hearted, and the cowardly Lion is not so cowardly at all. And then he resorted to a certain trick - he replaced the straw in the Scarecrow's head with a bag of bran, filled with needles and pins necessary for mental acuity. He placed a silk heart filled with sawdust in the woodcutter’s chest, and offered Leo to drink liquid from a golden dish, saying that this was courage. Ellie's friends sincerely believed that their cherished wishes had come true.

Goodwin was going to help Ellie with help hot air balloon, in which he found himself in a magical land. But when the balloon was ready to travel, a gust of wind broke the rope and Goodwin flew away alone. To find a way to return home, Ellie set off on a new journey, to the good sorceress Stella. Her friends went with her. Having overcome all difficulties, they reached the sorceress. She revealed to Ellie the secret of the silver slippers. It turned out that they can transport their owner to any place. If the girl knew this, she could immediately return home as soon as she got to the magical land. But then she would not have met her friends - the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Lion.

Ellie returned home safely. The Scarecrow began to rule the Emerald City, the Tin Woodman - the country of the Winks, and the Lion became the king of animals.

That's how it is summary fairy tales.

The main meaning of the fairy tale “The Wizard of the Emerald City” is that often those character qualities that a person dreams of are already in that person and no additional magic is needed. The Scarecrow was already smart, but he doubted it. The Tin Woodman was kind-hearted. And the Cowardly Leo was actually brave. They just needed to believe in their strengths and capabilities. The fairy tale teaches us to be honest and truthful, because lies and deception are always revealed, and the truth becomes known to everyone.

In the fairy tale, I liked the Scarecrow, who has a cheerful and cheerful character. Even considering himself stupid, he did not get lost in difficult situations and often saved the entire company with his practical and timely advice, and at the end of the fairy tale he became the ruler of the Emerald City.

What proverbs fit the fairy tale “The Wizard of the Emerald City”?

The mind and reason will be convinced immediately.
The brave is not the one who does not know fear, but the one who recognizes it and goes to meet it.
Cheating won't get you far.