The winding road

The Emerald city looks beyond perfection for dreamers to come to. The dwarfs seem so nice but yet why didn't they go on the road with Dorothy and walk with her to the castle? Were they hiding something about the road? Maybe it was a road to the unknown and no road to them. Maybe the dwarfs knew what was going to happen if anyone steps on the road, but why didn't they warn Dorothy? I believe that there is something about it that Dorothy is send on as her quest to the Wizard of Oz. Though Dorothy has been told to follow the yellow brick road, I believe that the road is following her.
The yellow brick road took Dorothy on a journey about finding the wizard to take her home. As she steps on the road going forward, she looks around as though she is confused and scared. On her way, she is faced with a split path. The road now has many paths, but only one is the right one, or are all three the same? Dorothy choses the one path the scarecrow points to. The three paths look all the same; they might as well lead to the same point. Along the way, she is flushed with obstacles that lead her with the possibilities of making some new friends and getting caught in a much harder obstacle than she thought.
In a way, Dorothy might have taken the initiative in her own hands to become the 'Oz' which is the perfect self in one's mind, and the 'wonderland' she's in is the image of herself, of who she really is. The journey to the end seems to be bringing out the true Dorothy as she is faced with many obstacles that she must overcome in order to get through them. Prior to the wildflowers, the road vanishes and then appears again. It looks like the road has a beginning when it ends. Maybe to us it ends when it actually begins. Maybe the road never really started until Dorothy stepped on it. I believe that she has created her own path home.
I see the journey as Dorothy's uniqueness that expresses in her actions. She might act innocent in front of anyone but she really is weak in the way she cries at the end. It's like she has given up, and there is nothing more to do. Soon her friends who are close to her in heart, show her that she can do it, that they will stay by her side. in the valley of wildflowers, she is deceived by the flowers which make her sleepy, just as the drug 'opium' which is a poppy flower and maybe one of the flowers in the valley which could make her sleepy and possibly depressed. She looked weak to go on any longer, and that's when she broke down when the wizard faced her with a bigger obstacle.
The road is long and shiny like a rainbow. I think that Dorothy creates taht rainbow in order to make a path to her destination. Before the storm begins, Dorothy sings, "somewhere over the rainbow", a song of imagination and desire. I believe that this song reflects her mood. The way she felt before ending in the emerald city. The imagination of a rainbow as the yellow road begins, represents Dorothy, the leader to her dreams. In order for Dorothy to make her wish come true, she must be harsh and strong on her way there. The yellowness of the road shows the wickedness in a journey as it winds down and out her way. A journey may just be a journey to Dorothy, but it has its turns. She must be ready to face the journey of her life.
The color yellow on the road looks more of a bitter, lemon color. Obstacles in paths often seem very sour than usual. This may show that, "there are no short cuts to any place that is worth going". Dorothy is determined to find the way home and she might not be aware that getting there will take much more effort than she is giving. Maybe the yellow road is part of what's reality. For example, when we are driving somewhere, there are yellow painted lines on the road, which separates you from the rest of the drivers. The separation is important since it's a warning label to not cross to the other side unless it;s a dotted line.
The road is made out of a mixture: sand and stones. Both of them create bricks. They are hard and strong. A mixture has more strenght than one of the two elements alone. It's powerful this way since it won't be destroyed easily. This makes Dorothy's path easier to on since it won't break, but the witch is watching her every move and makes skims on the road for Dorothy to fail. A brick road may seem very strong but until someone breaks it, it won''t show it's weakness.
The reality in life is ugly unless Dorothy makes her journey enjoyable, it will stay the way it is. On her journey, she is faced with many obstacles that she must conquer in order to move a step closer. It's like playing a game, it shouldn't be important whether she gets home, but whether she liked it the way she got there. Maybe Dorothy only thinks about getting what she wants instead of having what she has? Though, she was selfish toward her family because she seemed to care more for her dog than her family. When she stood on the yellow brick road to face her life, she began her journey. It possibly taught her a lesson about worth. Through her quest, Dorothy has changed primarily when she conquered her biggest challenge of all---getting the witch's broomstick. Luckily, she made her own path instead of someone making it for her.