Dorothy Gale was a very young girl (about age 12) who lived, at the end of the 19th century, in a one-room farmhouse on the Kansas prairie with her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em. They were farmers living in the middle of a drought: times were hard. Dorothy was the light in their dingy, colorless world.
After being whisked away in her house by a tornado, she was set down in the mysterious land of Oz, which was ruled by an equally mysterious wizard who lived in the City of Emeralds at the geographical center of Oz. Under the belief that the wizard would be able to send her home, Dorothy set out for the City of Emeralds. During her time in Oz, Dorothy proved to be very strong and brave, acting as a force for good and by her actions, sometimes intentional and sometimes not, making Oz a better place.
The wizard, however, had no true power, leaving Dorothy and her friends to find another solution for her return to Kansas. In the end they journeyed to the Quadling Country and met Glinda, who told Dorothy of the power of the Silver Shoes the girl had taken from the Wicked Witch of the East.
Dorothy would later return to Oz on numerous occasions, where she would be crowned as an Ozian princess by the Great Princess Ozma, and eventually, together with her Uncle and Aunt, given permanent residency in Oz.
Dorothy is the young heroine of L. Frank Baum's Oz stories, best known in modern pop culture for her protrayal by Judy Garland in the 1939 classic.
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