https://padlet.com/selkiew/Bookmarks Made with an aura of mystery en-us 2020-10-13 09:34:05 UTC 2021-02-03 11:29:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/selkiew/Bookmarks/wish/1158104770 The Ruby Slippers correlate to this sense of home that everybody wants. 'Are they literalists, or will they permit us to redefine the blessed word?' The narrator is doubting the connection through rhetorical questions: he re-evaluates the meaning of home.]]> 2021-02-03 11:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/selkiew/Bookmarks/wish/1158104770 https://padlet.com/selkiew/Bookmarks/wish/1158107521 "Like the Grimm's ancient flatfish, lose patience with our ever-growing demands." (94) This is a story where a Fisherman catches a fish who claims to be an enchanted prince - he begs to be set free and, in return, offers the couple a wish. The Fisherman wishes for wealth and his wife keeps requesting more (going as far to wish to be equal to God). The fish loses patiences with these demands and returns the couple to their hovel.
This links to the protagonist's desire to please Gale - nothing they do is ever enough, and so he is prepared to spend an ungodly amount of money on these ruby slippers in pursuit of her happiness. Much like the Fisherman's wife she seems unsatisfied. 
This also links to wider society. The "we" want these slippers and are going as far to drool over them, but would they really be happy if they acquired material goods, or is this just a means to distract from wider societal inequality? We could be granted control of the sun, the moon and the heavens, and still it'll never be enough in our consumerist society. ]]> 2021-02-03 11:11:40 UTC https://padlet.com/selkiew/Bookmarks/wish/1158107521 https://padlet.com/selkiew/Bookmarks/wish/1158107930 being an auction, everybody bids and places different prices/value on these ruby slippers, symbolic of 'home', as they may do with their own home, or what they know home to be. the idea of all of these people bidding to obtain one thing despite all having differing ideas of belonging is quite relieving in a way, as the story focuses on this illusion fuelled collective consciousness, the 'we' narrative that forces us to acknowledge our membership in the privileged segment of society, but these desires allow us to identify people as individuals. to our protagonist, gail seems to be the closest thing to home, hinted at by her 'come home, boy' but understood more deeply when you consider that he associates pleasure, vulnerability, and the word 'home' with her, and wishes to win the slippers to return to her, his home, as they allow people to. the martian being labelled as a martian as if the planet is now his home, just because he's irretrievable. none of them are home, they're all within the tornado. ]]> 2021-02-03 11:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/selkiew/Bookmarks/wish/1158107930 SelkieW https://padlet.com/selkiew/Bookmarks/wish/1158110064 The collective longing for the slippers indicates that these privileged, superior people are still unhappy or unsatisfied despite themselves.
Gale is also an example of reference to Oz.]]> 2021-02-03 11:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/selkiew/Bookmarks/wish/1158110064