English: Yellow Brick Road (Post-Reading Questions)

Greetings! After finishing reading the Yellow Brick Road novel in English we were tasked to make a blog answering in a full sentence the post-reading questions in our blog about the story.

Here's a link to the Yellow Brick Road story so that this post makes sense to you

1.) The narrator of the story believes that they are moving to Wellington was because to have a better life by getting jobs that would lift his family out of poverty. Evidence on the story:
"We'll make lots of money and be rich as anything because Wellington is where the money is. And you have to go where the money is, ay Dad. No use staying in Waituhi and being poor all the time, ay”

2.) On Page 1, the big difference between Waituhi (narrator's hometown) and Wellington that was mentioned by the narrator himself was that Wellington is where the "money" is and the bigger population of Pakehas than their own hometown.

3.) On Page 3, the narrator's dad explained to his uncle Sam that they were moving to Wellington because there were no more jobs at home and they had enough of plenty of seasonal work such as shearing, fruit-picking etc. Moreover, there is apparently plenty of work in Wellington; plenty of factories. And he wants his kids to have a better life than he had.

4.) The narrator's attitude towards moving to Wellington changes as he encounters a lot of signs when they got nearer to the city which overwhelmed him and made him feel anxious. Moreover, the people they also encounter on the road the way to Wellington was not so friendly.

5.) Emerald City, Yellow Brick Road, Flying Monkeys, scarecrow, tinman and cowardly lion, are all allusions (references) to a famous book "The Wizard of Oz". I think the author made this comparison because it has the same story theme which is where the protagonist starts a journey into a destination that will solve all of their problems and which turned out to be fake. Meaning, the destination of their journey isn't going to solve their problems.