BOOK CLUB AND WOMEN'S DAY: How is Dorothy an "Everywoman"? #IWD #BookClub

How is Dorothy an everywoman?

Dorothy resembles the untamed spirit of the earliest suffragettes. The story we are currently reading is also relevant for the International Women's Day as it is full of female characters. In addition, it is full of interesting and varied topic content ranging from geography, history to philosophy and, above all, feminism and equality. As our students have already noted: there is no superiority of any person over another in the story plot: The aim is at a gender EQUAL WORLD. Relationships are based on respect, justice and they establish the conditions for peace, which is why the majority of our students can identify with the protagonist as they manifested in their analysis. Dorothy is in this sense an every-woman that everyone can relate to. Most people reading the novel could identify with Dorothy and quite easily place themselves in her (silver) shoes. And so our students did.

Paula Bote Andrada

When I started reading this book, the character of Alice (from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) inmediately came to my mind and from my point of view, she's an Everywoman as well. They are both lost girls in a fantasy world whose main objective and conflict through the book is returning home, what would be most children's aim in their position. They also posses a really simple personality which makes everyone relate to them in some type of way. This is more or less the strategy horoscope uses for asigning traits and predictions to all signs; giving really vague and general description that anyone can fit into. The two girls also have a really big love and respect for their families, which is something that many people can identify with. 

Clara Campos Portillo

Dorothy is a very normal and ordinary girl, she likes to spend time with her dog but she also likes to spend time alone, she still needs to be taken care of she because she is not even of legal age but in general, she is a girl with things very clear and very mature for her age.

Irene Campos Portillo

Dorothy is an "Everywoman" because she is affectionate and sweet. She titrate things and cares about them.

María de las Nieves Canales González

She is very simple and very bland, she have characteristics very basic that anyone can have therefore most of the children could identify with Dorothy and quite easily place themselves in her shoes.

Noa Durán Casares

She is an everywoman sice she has good moments, bad moments, places she misses, she has negative and positive feelings, her characteristics are normal, she has goals...

Clara Díaz López

She is an "Everywoman" because she is like other girls of she´s age she is very inteligent girl that know what to do in difficult situations but also she need help from his paents and their love and protection.

Alejandro García Garrido

Dorothy is an Everywoman simply because she is a girl we all can relate and see ourselves in, she can be scared and feel fear, but, not in an unrealistic way, she solves her problems by help of her friends and co-working as we all should and do.

Ángel Manuel García Garrido

Well, Dorothy is the main character of this story, but she is not the most relevant one, the protagonism is shared between Dorothy and her friends, so every child would easily see that Dorothy has a group of friends in which everyone is equal, just as in real life (in normal and non-toxic situations). Dorothy acts also in a very "standard" way, she's polite and gentle, as every child usually acts. She wants to solve her problems acting brave  , giving an example of maturity, but when the situation is dangerous she gets scared and feels scared as everyone would be in situations like that. 

Adrián González Pérez

Because she helps everyone

Gloria González Skender

From my point of view, Dorothy is an "Everywoman" because she doesn´t have any special physical features, I mean that she isn´t a super model or she doesn´t have a model´s body just because she is a woman. However, she is blonde with blue eyes (stereotypes). She is also an ordinary girl because she doesn´t have any special superpower or skill. I say this to explain that to be a famous or well known girl/woman it is not necessary to have something unique or characteristic. She is also very brave as other women, and a very important fact is that she doesn´t need a strong man to protect her or help/save her with her problems or troubles. In the Wizard of Oz´s book we can observe the opposite from this: Dorothy helps other characters to obtain what they want.

Héctor Jiménez Fernández

she adaptes to the circumstances that the story has and also help her friends in Oz but she also needs to go to Kansas with her aunt and uncle

Pablo Luis Muñoz

Because she helps everyone.

Pablo Muñoz Milán

Dorothy is a normal girl but very dreamy, in the book it does not appear that she has friends with children `s of  her age so she imagines living in a world of magic where she makes very different and special friends. A world full of colors and life that is very different from reality, because in Kansas everything is dry and there is no color at all.

Víctor Manuel Polo Redondo

Because she is like the people of that organisation.

Ángela Quijada Collado

Dorothy is a Everywoman because she is a loving, friendly and vigorous girl who doesn't like to follow the rules and daily routine of her village very much because she prefers to go by free.

Graciela Vadillo García

Because she has a very nice personality and makes good things, also she helps their friends.

Marta Vicho Vega

I think that the majority of children who read the novel can feel identified because it says that they have a normal and boring life, without anything special quality

Héctor Álvarez Luengo

to be an everywoman, you don't need to perform correctly a lot of skills. In my point of view, Dorothy is an everywoman because she takes care of her friends, she is cheerful, kind, and a lot of adjectives more that can describe  that she is a very good person in all of ways.