Friday, August 31, 2007

Stuck in Oz


During the children’s story The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy formed a team out of herself, the Scarecrow, the Tinman and the cowardly Lion. She convinced them to have a shared objective and target goal. Their objective was to get to the emerald city and their target goal was to speak to the Wizard in order to make their wishes come true. But what would have happened in the story if Dorothy never formed the team that achieved their goal. Imagine if the Scarecrow decided to stay put and hang out with the Lollipop Kids. Imagine if the Tinman decided to just start an apple throwing fight with the moving and talking forest. Imagine if the cowardly Lion decided to go see the house that fell out of the sky to smell the wicked witch of the east’s decomposing feet. If each member of the team decided to just go their own way then they would have never achieved their objective and target goal because each member had unique abilities that helped the group out during their journey. The consequences of these imaginary events happening is that none of the team would fulfill their dreams and poor Dorothy would wind up being stuck in Oz.