Tin man biography

Tin Woodman

The Tin Woodman (also called Tin man in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz) is a character in the Literary Army.

Background[]

The Tin Woodman (or 'Tin Man') is a fictional character from the Oz Books by L. Frank Baum. He first appears in Beyond the Kingdoms, chapter 13.

For more on Baum's Tin Woodman, click here.

 Appearance and Personality[]

"He was unusually tall, and very thin. He had a long, pointed nose and wore a pointed cap. As they brushed the debris off of him, they discover that everything from his clothes to his skin was made of metal."

The Tin Woodman is made out of tin. He believes he is hollow inside and dreams of having a heart. Like in the Oz Books, he is unaware that he already has one.

Story []

The Tin Woodman has always been a woodman, as his father and his father's father before him. He was once a real man, but he fell in love with a Munchkin girl who agreed to marry him. The girl lived with a mean old woman who didn't want to live alone, and who bribed the Wicked Witch of the East to hurt him. She enchanted his axe to cut off his limbs and his head- a local tin smith 'rebuilt' him with tin appendages until he was entire made out of tin.

When Conner, Alex, Jack, Goldilocks, Mother Goose, Red, and Lester are transported into the Land of Oz by a cyclone, they land right on top of the Tin Woodman. After he is oiled and able to move and speak, he tells them he had been rusted to that very spot for a year. He usually carries an oilcan with him in case he gets wet.

Alex tells him they are on a secret mission for the Wizard of Oz. They ask if he can guide them to Winkie Country, where Lloyd is most likely to be to recruiting the Wicked Witch of the West and her allies. Using his knowledge of the book, Conner promises the Tin Woodman that the Wizard will give him a heart if he helps them.

Red almost jeopardizes their missio

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The most tragic figure in L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz is, by far, the Tin Man. The 1939 Judy Garland film adaptation elides his origin story, and it wasn’t until I read Baum’s novel last month that I discovered how our Tin Man came to be. The story goes like this:

Before he was made of tin, Tin Man – or Tin Woodman in the book (another pop-cultural elision) – was an ordinary son of a lumberjack, and in love with a Munchkin girl who lived with an old lady. But the old lady wouldn’t let her marry, and instead wanted her to continue cooking and laboring around the house. So the old lady makes an offering to the wicked Witch of the East – as evil-stepmother-ish figures do – and the Witch enchants the woodman’s axe, causing it to slip one day and cut off his leg.

Our steadfast woodman doesn’t let that get him down; he seeks out a tinsmith to make him a replacement leg. He goes back to work, only for the same thing to happens to his other leg. The nursery-rhyme cycle runs its course: the axe keeps dismembering him, then decapitates him, until finally, it splits his torso in half. And although he gets a tin replacement for this, too, he is now without a human heart, and no longer feels any love for the girl. Tin Man goes back to doing the only thing he does well – chopping wood, silver body gleaming in the sun – until one day he’s caught in a rainstorm and his joints rust in place. When Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion finally rescue him, he’s been frozen for an entire year.

If this sounds to you like political-cartoon-level allegory, you wouldn’t be far off. According to some historians, Baum and W.W. Denslow, the book’s illustrator, drew from popular political cartoons of the time, in which tin-clad men were prominent symbols for the dehumanizing aspects of industrialization. And this isn’t even the wildest socioeconomic read of the book; my partner remembers an econ professor telling her class that the yellow bri

Nothing matches but everything fits.

 Cribb's work is constantly bouncing around different ideas, themes, and styles. This variety in his approach is what keeps him happy, with new challenges to conquer. This includes The Adventures of Tin Man, illustrative, poetic, realistic and/or abstract works. Different is good. The common thread holding these all together is storytelling. Each is a snapshot into a world that has a story or message to tell. 

 Growing up with Jim Henson’s Muppets and Tim Burton’s imagination has played a big part in shaping the stories Cribb tells through his paintbrush. He loves to paint images and characters that invoke a reaction or emotion from the viewer, making the work interactive and bringing it to life. And the beauty of art is that not everyone will connect with each story, with each character - making it even more special for both artist and viewer when it does happen.

 Experiencing the Christchurch Earthquake on Feb 22nd 2011 and living in the badly affected eastern suburbs was an intense and emotional time, and for the months that followed art & painting became utterly trivial. This emotional journey culminated with a re-focussing of what Cribb wanted to achieve through his artwork. Hope, humour, love, and sincerity have never been more apparent.

 After this the artworks slowly came back to life before they were interrupted by another adventure in 2013 – a brain tumour. “After the operation, 6 weeks in hospital, numerous seizures, a stroke, and years of ongoing recovery – I am incredibly thankful to still be breathing in, and out. I am lucky to have been given a second chance. Many others have not. In the years since I have been able to make memories with my family & friends, something I am incredibly fortunate to be able to do. Memories are everything. They stir emotion, they make you smile.” 

 Cribb lives in Christchurch with his wife, two boys, a dog, a cat, and numerous bumblebees that keep flying in throug

Nick Chopper, The Tin Woodman is one of the more important personages in the Land of Oz. The Tin Woodman was a man made out of tin.

Description[]

He is a man made entirely of tin, cleverly jointed together, although he rattles and clanks a little as he moves. He is tireless and has no need for food or drink, but he was prone to rust before he was nickel-plated. With or without a heart, he was all along the most tender and emotional of Dorothy's companions (just as the Scarecrow was the wisest and the Cowardly Lion the bravest). When he accidentally crushed an insect, he was grief-stricken and, ironically, claimed that he must be careful about such things, while those with hearts do not need such care. (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

The Tin Woodman was once a meat man, and he remains alive, in contrast to the windup mechanical man, Tik-Tok. Nick Chopper was not turned into a machine, but rather had his "meat" body replaced by a metal one. Far from missing his original existence, the Tin Woodman is proud (perhaps too proud) of his untiring tin body.

His appreciation of his heart notably contrasts with the Scarecrow's pride in his brains, reflecting a common debate between the relative importance of the mind and the emotions. This, indeed, occasions philosophical debate between the two friends as to why each one's choices are superior. Neither convinces the other, but they remain the closest of friends.

The Tin Woodman is so well-loved that the "Shining Emperor Waltz" was written in his honor by Mr. H.M. Wogglebug, T.E. When the Wogglebug later asked about his genealogy, he claimed, "I am a Tin Woodman and you may enter me in your book under the name of Smith, for a tin Smith made me, and as Royal Emperor of the Winkies, I do not care to go back to my meat connections."

History[]

The Tin Man was originally a Munchkin named Nick Chopper. His father was a woodman who chopped down trees, and when Nick grew up he became a woodman as well.

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