Dorothy tells us what she learned, but what does it mean?
Should be pretty simple, right? What do you think it means?
Just before Dorothy's clicks her slippers and returns to Kansas, Dorothy says what she's learned. I'm not too sure I know what the heck she meant. Can you help me out and tell me what you think?
Here's the actual script. I've edited it down to just include the context, and 'what Dorothy learned' is in bold type -- and the bold type is what I'm asking about.
Quote:
DOROTHY
Oh, will you help me? Can you help me?
GLINDA
You don't need to be helped any longer.
You've always had the power to go back to
Kansas.
DOROTHY
I have?
SCARECROW
Then why didn't you tell her before?
GLINDA
Because she wouldn't have believed me. She
had to learn it for herself.
TIN MAN
What have you learned, Dorothy?
DOROTHY
Well, I -- I think that it -- that it
wasn't enough just to want to see Uncle
Henry and Auntie Em -- and it's that -- if
I ever go looking for my heart's desire
again, I won't look any further than my own
backyard. Because if it isn't there, I
never really lost it to begin with! Is
that right?
GLINDA
That's all it is!
SCARECROW
But that's so easy! I should have thought
of it for you.
TIN MAN
I should have felt it in my heart.
GLINDA
No. She had to find it out for herself.
Now, those magic slippers will take you
home in two seconds!
.....................
GLINDA
Then close your eyes, and tap your heels
together three times.
GLINDA
And think to yourself -- "There's no place
like home; there's no place like home;
there's no place like home."
DOROTHY
There's no place like home. There's no
place like home. There's no place like
home. There's no place like home.
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