Imagine being sucked into a story you have heard about and watched for years...literally! In the book, Dorothy Must Die, by Danielle Paige, this is a girl powered book. This book was published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2014, it is inspired by the Wizard of Oz. Amy Gumm is just an ordinary girl from Kansas who lives an ordinary life, until she gets swept up by a tornado, dropping her into the one and only Oz. Only Oz is not the same, “This wasn’t Dorothy’s Oz” (35). everything has been turned upside down, “There was something dead about all of it” (28). This has all been done by none other than Dorothy herself. Everyone thought Dorothy tapped her beautiful red shoes, but this isn’t the case, Dorothy may have never made it home. This isn’t the version you know…
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There is the Tin woodman who looked more, “like a machine that had been cobbled together out of spare parts” (78). The scarecrow drains people’s brains, and injects them into his own head, to better his brain, and to get smarter. He also has his own laboratory where he takes innocent people, and tortures them, and experiments with them. They are, “‘his toys’” (180).
There is also the lion, “he looked like a monster like some warped nightmare version of the king of the jungle” (230). “‘The lion eats the fear of others’” (231). “‘It’s how he survives. How he gets stronger’” (231). All the characters are either with Dorothy or against her, they work as her slaves, working to take over Oz.
Dorothy isn’t only smart and strong, but she has stolen magic protecting her, this is why it is so hard to kill her. Dorothy has gone to great lengths to protect herself. “‘There are things protecting Dorothy that even she herself doesn’t even know about’” (443). In order for Amy to kill Dorothy, she finds out she first needs to complete these three tasks, “Remove the Tin Woodman’s heart, take the lion’s courage, and then Dorothy must die” (book
There is the Tin woodman who looked more, “like a machine that had been cobbled together out of spare parts” (78). The scarecrow drains people’s brains, and injects them into his own head, to better his brain, and to get smarter. He also has his own laboratory where he takes innocent people, and tortures them, and experiments with them. They are, “‘his toys’” (180).
There is also the lion, “he looked like a monster like some warped nightmare version of the king of the jungle” (230). “‘The lion eats the fear of others’” (231). “‘It’s how he survives. How he gets stronger’” (231). All the characters are either with Dorothy or against her, they work as her slaves, working to take over Oz.
Dorothy isn’t only smart and strong, but she has stolen magic protecting her, this is why it is so hard to kill her. Dorothy has gone to great lengths to protect herself. “‘There are things protecting Dorothy that even she herself doesn’t even know about’” (443). In order for Amy to kill Dorothy, she finds out she first needs to complete these three tasks, “Remove the Tin Woodman’s heart, take the lion’s courage, and then Dorothy must die” (book