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Uncle Henry is a fictional character from the classic children's series of Oz Books by American author L. Frank Baum, first introduced in ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' (1900).〔Jack Snow, ''Who's Who in Oz'', Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1954; New York, Peter Bedrick Books, 1988; p. 227.〕 He is the uncle of orphan Dorothy Gale and the husband of Aunt Em. Henry is a hardworking farmer who lives with his wife and niece on a small farm in the midst of the sun baked prairies of Kansas during the early 1900s. He is portrayed to be a very simple minded and stern man who works hard to make an honest living to provide for his family. Surprisingly, in the Oz books it is Uncle Henry who Dorothy is more closer to, while she does love her Aunt Em dearly, Henry and Dorothy do appear to spend more quality time together in the series. Baum's description of him is exactly — "''Uncle Henry never laughed. He worked hard from morning till night and did not know what joy was. He was gray also, from his long beard to his rough boots, and he looked stern and solemn, and rarely spoke.''" ==The Classic Oz Books== In the third Oz book ''Ozma of Oz'' (1907), it is revealed that Uncle Henry had to mortgaged his farm in order to rebuild a new farmhouse after the first one had been swept away by a cyclone in ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz''. This crisis, combined with the stress of Dorothy's prolonged disappearance after the cyclone and sudden reappearance months later, took a toll on his overall health and well-being. When his doctor orders him to take a long vacation he takes his niece with him and the two go on an ocean voyage to Australia, where Henry apparently has relatives. His wife Emily and Dorothy's pet dog Toto stay behind to look after the farm and the new house. During this trip, Dorothy was lost again when a big storm came and tossed the little ship violently over the waves. The girl is accidentally thrown overboard and casted away into the sea where she and a chicken named Billina wash up upon the uncharted shores of Ev, (another enchanted country that lies in a fairy-region and neighbors the undiscovered Land of Oz). For several weeks a despondent Henry believed Dorothy had drowned, until she suddenly returned to him again safe and sound after having many adventures. In the sixth Oz book ''The Emerald City of Oz'' (1910), Henry and Em finally confessed to their little niece about the troubling extent of their financial problems, and revealed to her that their farm was on the verge of foreclosure. Dorothy quickly solved this problem for them by bringing them to live with her and Toto in the Emerald City's royal palace, as permanent guests of the imperial child Queen, Princess Ozma. However, the elegance and magnificence of the city is far too grand for Henry and his wife's liking, so they move to a more humble home on the outskirts of the Emerald City instead. Henry was eventually given the job of being Keeper of the Jewels in Ozma's royal treasure hoard for the purpose of keeping him busy and occupied. Unlike his wife Emily, who is questioning everything about the realm of Oz, Henry accepts his new life and new home with surprising comfort and ease, having traveled and seen the world a lot more than his wife had. By the fourteenth Oz book ''Glinda of Oz'' (1920), Henry has become one of Ozma's closest advisers, having taught his agricultural abilities to other Ozian farmers, getting them producing surplus for the Emerald City storehouses. Henry has been featured slightly more than Em in the Oz book series, despite being less featured than she in the film, ''The Wizard of Oz'' (1939). Ruth Plumly Thompson gave him only two brief mentions, in ''The Royal Book of Oz'' and ''Grampa in Oz''. He had somewhat larger roles in John R. Neill's ''The Wonder City of Oz'' and ''The Scalawagons of Oz'', Jack Snow's ''The Magical Mimics in Oz'', and Eric Shanower's ''The Giant Garden of Oz''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Uncle Henry (Oz)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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