Throughout the series of “Dorothy Must Die” by Danielle Paige readers have to really use their brains for certain situations such as figuring out which characters are good and which are evil. Although there are many good examples of this within the book, Ozma, Dorothy and Polychrom are 3 of the best examples of how deep the reader really has to look into the characters.
A character the readers might be fooled by is the character and ruler of Oz, Ozma. In the first book, Dorothy Must Die, Ozma stumbles upon Amy when she is disguised as the maid, Astrid, in the emerald city, more specifically in Dorothy’s castle and home (Paige 180). When Amy does meet Ozma, she ends up thinking Ozma is very stupid but in reality she has just been brainwashed. Since Amy did not meet Ozma until after she was brainwashed, she had no idea how smart and wise she really was, which she did find out later in the second book.
While someone might argue against this that Ozma wasn’t really someone Amy had to get to know since she was under a sort of “coma”, they are forgetting that in the text a munchkin say that she “disappeared” from Oz and they have not seen her since (Paige 94). This is a good piece of evidence to support this claim because it proves that even before Ozam was under …show more content…
An example of one of these characters is Dorothy. Since Amy is also from Kansas, like Dorothy, she knows a lot about her. In the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy is portrayed as the hero which is what Amy assumes Dorothy is, but once she gets to Oz she learns what horrible things Dorothy has been doing to the wonderful world of Oz (Paige 45). Readers can be fooled by how Dorothy is portrayed in this series versus the Wizard of Oz, and if the reader do not really pay attention to what Dorothy is doing in the book, they could think that she was still a good person, or even the hero, just like she was in the Wizard of
A character the readers might be fooled by is the character and ruler of Oz, Ozma. In the first book, Dorothy Must Die, Ozma stumbles upon Amy when she is disguised as the maid, Astrid, in the emerald city, more specifically in Dorothy’s castle and home (Paige 180). When Amy does meet Ozma, she ends up thinking Ozma is very stupid but in reality she has just been brainwashed. Since Amy did not meet Ozma until after she was brainwashed, she had no idea how smart and wise she really was, which she did find out later in the second book.
While someone might argue against this that Ozma wasn’t really someone Amy had to get to know since she was under a sort of “coma”, they are forgetting that in the text a munchkin say that she “disappeared” from Oz and they have not seen her since (Paige 94). This is a good piece of evidence to support this claim because it proves that even before Ozam was under …show more content…
An example of one of these characters is Dorothy. Since Amy is also from Kansas, like Dorothy, she knows a lot about her. In the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy is portrayed as the hero which is what Amy assumes Dorothy is, but once she gets to Oz she learns what horrible things Dorothy has been doing to the wonderful world of Oz (Paige 45). Readers can be fooled by how Dorothy is portrayed in this series versus the Wizard of Oz, and if the reader do not really pay attention to what Dorothy is doing in the book, they could think that she was still a good person, or even the hero, just like she was in the Wizard of