Organization in The Oz Series

Dorothy's Traveling Party

Also known as our little party of travelers, the queer party, so strange a company, Dorothy and her friends, the four travelers, the clumsy strangers, his comrades, Dorothy and her comrades, her loving comrades, our little band of adventurers, the Scarecrow and his friends.

The little company of travelers journeying together to the Emerald City. After being scattered by the Winged Monkeys, the fellowship is made whole again at the Yellow Castle — the Tin Woodman mended, the Scarecrow restuffed, the Lion freed — and, reunited, all set out once more for the Emerald City to claim Oz's promises.

Appears in 22 chapters, first in chapter 6, last in chapter 48.

What the story establishes

Relationships

• provides service ← Winged Monkeys ch. 22
  The Winged Monkeys catch up the four travelers and Toto and fly them safely over the Hammer-Heads' hill, setting them down in the Quadling country — then bid Dorothy a final farewell, the charm now spent.
• ally of ← Field Mice ch. 10
  The Queen of the Field Mice leaves the party a standing pledge of aid — if they ever need the mice again they may call in the field and the mice will come to their assistance — an alliance sealed by the mice hauling the Lion out of the deadly poppy bed, a debt the Lion himself acknowledges in this chapter when told how such small animals saved his life.
• oath bound → Oz ch. 15
  In return for Oz's help, the four travelers agree to keep his secret and tell no one he is a humbug. fulfillment_status: pending.
• located in → the Castle of Glinda ch. 44
  The party reaches Glinda's beautiful Castle and is admitted at once to the Good Witch.
• provides service ← Cowardly Lion ch. 20
  At the second, lower china wall the party climbs to the top by standing upon the Lion's back before he leaps up after them.
• provides service ← the Quadling farmer's wife ch. 22
  The Quadling farmer's wife opens her door to the travelers, gives them a good dinner of cake, cookies, and milk for Toto, and directs them to the nearby Castle of Glinda.
• commands ← Oz (ended) ch. 11
  In four separate audiences Oz refuses to grant any wish for free and sets one and the same condition to Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion: kill the Wicked Witch of the West and bring proof of her death. This decree redirects the party's entire journey from petitioning the Wizard to hunting the last Wicked Witch.
• deceives ← Oz (ended) ch. 15
  Oz confesses he deceived the four travelers, appearing to each in a different fabricated form (Head, Lady, Beast, Ball of Fire) worked by props and ventriloquism, to make them believe he was a Great Wizard.
• confesses to ← Oz (ended) ch. 15
  Oz confesses to the four that he is a humbug with no magic, admitting 'I am a humbug' and begging them to keep his secret.
• oath bound → Wicked Witch of the West (ended) ch. 11–12
  After separate audiences in which Oz names the same price to each of them, the whole party is committed to a shared mission: kill the Wicked Witch of the West. Only when the Witch is dead will Oz grant their wishes (Dorothy's return to Kansas, brains, a heart, courage), so they decide to journey to the land of the Winkies, seek her out, and destroy her. fulfillment_status: pending.
• includes → Cowardly Lion (ended) ch. 6–23
  The Cowardly Lion joins the company this chapter, seeking courage from Oz and pledging to keep away wild beasts.
• includes → Dorothy (ended) ch. 6–23
  Dorothy is the leader and heart of the traveling company, the one the others walk beside.
• threatens ← Kalidahs (ended) ch. 7
  Two Kalidahs rush at the travelers and pursue them across the tree-bridge, threatening to tear them to pieces with their sharp claws.
• commands ← Oz (ended) ch. 12
  Oz makes killing the Wicked Witch of the West the price of every member's wish, setting the whole fellowship on the westward quest that drives this arc.
• repairs → Scarecrow (ended) ch. 43
  On Tip's suggestion the party re-stuffs the emptied Scarecrow with a fortune of clean dollar bills from the nest — fives and tens in his legs, fifties, hundreds and thousands in his body — restoring him so full he can scarcely button his jacket.
• enemy of · Wicked Witch of the West (ended) ch. 12
  Angered to find Dorothy's party in her country, the Wicked Witch tries to destroy them with wolves, crows, bees, armed Winkies, and finally the Winged Monkeys, then enslaves Dorothy and cages the Lion—until Dorothy melts her with water and ends the enmity.
• defeats ← Wicked Witch of the West (ended) ch. 12
  After her wolves, crows, bees, and Winkies fail, the Witch uses the Golden Cap to send the Winged Monkeys, who scatter the fellowship — battering the Woodman, un-stuffing the Scarecrow, and caging the Lion — and take Dorothy captive.
• located in → City of Emeralds (ended) ch. 10–11
  After being fitted with the locked green spectacles, the whole party follows the Guardian through the inner gate into the streets of the Emerald City.
• communicates with → Oz (ended) ch. 11
  Over several days in the Palace each member of the party is admitted alone, one per day, to petition the Great Oz, who appears to each in a different shape (a giant Head to Dorothy, a lovely Lady to the Scarecrow, a terrible Beast to the Tin Woodman, a Ball of Fire to the Lion); each returns to report to the others.
• threatens ← poppy field (ended) ch. 8–9
  The great meadow of scarlet poppies threatens the flesh-and-blood members of the party with its deadly sleeping scent: Dorothy, Toto, and finally the Lion succumb and would sleep on forever, until the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman carry the girl and dog clear and the field mice haul the Lion out in chapter 9.
• communicates with ← Saw-Horse (ended) ch. 43
  The Saw-Horse abruptly proposes starting the count at one-half, cracking the impossible 'count seventeen by twos' riddle for the whole party and earning their astonished respect.
• protects ← Scarecrow (ended) ch. 12
  The Scarecrow shields the party from the wild crows—telling them to lie down beside him while he twists the neck of each of the forty crows—and later has his straw scattered over Dorothy, Toto, and the Lion so the black bees cannot sting them.
• includes → Scarecrow (ended) ch. 6–23
  The Scarecrow travels with the company, seeking brains from Oz.
• located in → the country of the china people (ended) ch. 20
  Having climbed the china wall, the traveling party descends into the dainty china country and crosses it on their southward route.
• provides service ← the Gump (ended) ch. 42–48
  The Gump serves as the party's flying steed. After its crash broke off its right wings and grounded it, its transport service is restored in the Jackdaws' nest when the Woggle-Bug's wish mends its wings 'as good as new', leaving it once more able to fly the whole band through the air.
• protects ← Tin Woodman (ended) ch. 12
  The Tin Woodman stands guard over the sleeping party and single-handedly meets the pack of wolves, chopping off the head of each of the forty wolves so none can harm his friends.
• includes → Tin Woodman (ended) ch. 6–23
  The Tin Woodman travels with the company, seeking a heart from Oz.
• persuades ← Cowardly Lion (ended) ch. 11
  After all four have been refused by Oz until the Wicked Witch dies, the Lion proposes and persuades the party that their only course is to go to the land of the Winkies, seek out the Wicked Witch, and destroy her; the others agree to set out with him.
• warns ← farmhouse man (ended) ch. 10
  The farm man warns the whole company that their errand may be in vain: Oz never lets anyone come into his presence, sits unseen day after day in the Throne Room of his Palace, and getting to see him will be a hard task, for the Great Wizard usually has his own way.
• located in → great forest (ended) ch. 6–7
  The traveling party (formed as a full company when the Cowardly Lion joined) journeys through the great dark forest along the yellow brick road, camping there and surviving its gulfs and Kalidahs, until they emerge at the broad river in chapter 7.
• threatens ← the fighting trees (ended) ch. 19
  The first row of trees in the wood bend down their branches to seize the travelers and fling them back, fighting to stop the party's journey and keep strangers out of the forest.
• threatens ← the Hammer-Heads (ended) ch. 22
  The Hammer-Heads warn the travelers off their hill, crying 'Keep back!' and refusing to let them cross toward the Quadling country.
• located in → the Jackdaws' nest (ended) ch. 42–44
  After the Gump crashes, the whole party is dumped into the Jackdaws' nest on the cliff ledge, where they are stranded on the precipice.
• located in → the Land of the South (ended) ch. 22
  The Winged Monkeys set the party down in the beautiful Quadling country of the Land of the South, where they journey on toward Glinda's castle.
• includes → Toto (ended) ch. 6–23
  Toto, Dorothy's dog, travels with the company and is defended by its members.
• commands ← Wicked Witch of the West (ended) ch. 12
  Through the Winged Monkeys the Witch commands that the strangers all be destroyed except the Lion, whom she orders brought to her to be harnessed and made to work.
• communicates with → Winkies (ended) ch. 11
  The party resolves to travel into the land of the Winkies, where the Wicked Witch of the West rules, in order to seek her out and destroy her as Oz demanded; they prepare and set out the next morning.
• located in → Winkies (ended) ch. 12–14
  The party remains in the Winkie country at the Yellow Castle through this chapter, but at its close the reunited company bids the Winkies good-bye and sets out for the Emerald City, leaving the Winkie land behind.
• member of ← Cowardly Lion (ended) ch. 11–23
  The traveling party is broken apart this chapter: the Winged Monkeys drop the Tin Woodman onto sharp rocks so he lies battered and unable to move, pull the Scarecrow's straw out and throw his bundled clothes into a treetop, and rope the Cowardly Lion, caging him alone in the Witch's castle yard. Only Dorothy (with Toto) remains at large, so the Lion's active membership in the intact party is materially disrupted.
• member of → Cowardly Lion (ended) ch. 11
  The Cowardly Lion is a member of the traveling party; lodged in the Palace, he takes his audience with Oz and rejoins his friends, then proposes their plan to seek and destroy the Wicked Witch.
• member of ← Dorothy (ended) ch. 11–23
  Dorothy is a member of the traveling party lodged together in the Palace of Oz; she is the one who first goes before Oz and reports back to her waiting friends.
• member of → Dorothy (ended) ch. 11
  Dorothy is a member of the traveling party lodged together in the Palace of Oz; she is the one who first goes before Oz and reports back to her friends who wait to hear the outcome.
• warns ← Guardian of the Gates (ended) ch. 10
  The Guardian of the Gates warns the party that Oz is powerful and terrible, and that if they come on an idle or foolish errand the Great Wizard might be angry and destroy them all in an instant.
• provides service ← Guardian of the Gates (ended) ch. 10–12
  The Guardian serves the party as gatekeeper and escort: he fits each of them with protective locked green spectacles and then personally guides them through the gate to show them to Oz's Palace.
• warns ← Guardian of the Gates (ended) ch. 12
  The Guardian of the Gates warns the departing party that the Wicked Witch of the West is wicked and fierce and may not allow them to destroy her, and directs them to keep to the West where the sun sets to find her.
• located in → Palace of Oz (ended) ch. 11–12
  Dorothy and her companions are lodged in the Palace of Oz for several days, each shown to a pleasant room where they rest while awaiting their separate audiences with the Great Oz.
• uses → road of yellow brick (ended) ch. 10
  Refreshed after the poppy-field rescue, the party regains the road of yellow brick and follows it through the green country to its very end at the emerald-studded gate of the Emerald City, completing the road-journey phase of the quest.
• member of ← Scarecrow (ended) ch. 11–23
  The Scarecrow is a member of the traveling party; lodged in the Palace, he takes his own audience with Oz and returns to report to his companions.
• member of → Scarecrow (ended) ch. 11
  The Scarecrow is a member of the traveling party; he is lodged in the Palace, takes his own audience with Oz, and returns to report to his friends.
• confronts → the Hammer-Heads (ended) ch. 24
  Barred from the Quadling country by the armless Hammer-Heads, who shoot out their flat heads to knock back anyone attempting the hill, the travelers cannot force a passage and instead spend Dorothy's last Golden-Cap command to have the Winged Monkeys fly the whole party safely over the hill.
• member of ← Tin Woodman (ended) ch. 11–23
  The Tin Woodman is a member of the traveling party; lodged in the Palace, he takes his audience with Oz and sorrowfully returns to his companions.
• member of → Tin Woodman (ended) ch. 11
  The Tin Woodman is a member of the traveling party; lodged in the Palace, he takes his audience with Oz and returns sorrowfully to tell his friends of the terrible Beast he saw.
• confronts ← a china milkmaid (ended) ch. 20
  The angry milkmaid confronts the travelers, scolding them for frightening her cow and casting reproachful glances as she leads it away.
• provides service ← farmhouse woman (ended) ch. 10
  The farm woman takes the strange company in for the night, laying the table, giving them supper, and providing Dorothy a bed while the others rest in her house.
• located in → great forest (ended) ch. 4–7
  Dorothy's traveling party journeyed through the great forest for several days (chapters 4-7), sheltering in the woodland cottage, gaining the Tin Woodman and the Lion there, and surviving the gulfs and the Kalidahs before emerging at the broad river.
• commands ← Guardian of the Gates (ended) ch. 10
  The Guardian orders the party that before entering the Emerald City they must put on the locked green spectacles, since everyone in the City must wear them by Oz's decree.
• communicates with ← Guardian of the Gates (ended) ch. 19
  The Guardian of the Gate unlocks the party's green spectacles, puts them back into the green box, and sends the travelers off with many good wishes.
• provides service ← the green girl (ended) ch. 11–19
  After lodging Dorothy, the green girl also leads the rest of the party — the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion — to pleasant rooms in the Palace where each is given comfortable lodging for their stay.
• provides service ← the soldier with the green whiskers (ended) ch. 15–19
  The green-whiskered soldier lets the travelers in, carries their news to Oz, and comes to fetch them to the Throne Room at the appointed hour.
• communicates with → the soldier with the green whiskers (ended) ch. 19
  The travelers shake hands in farewell with the green-whiskered soldier, who has walked with them as far as the city gate.

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From the text

This was to be an eventful day for the travelers.Chapter 7

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