Amy Gumm Analysis

Amy Gumm, the main character of this series, and I have some connections and things that make us similar. Loyalty and being kind to people who deserve and need it are important things to both of us. Throughout the books, Amy has tried to be nice and caring towards many people. ““If Maude is a part of it, I promise, I’ll get her out”” (Paige, 338, Dorothy Must Die) and “I had made a promise to myself that I would help Ollie. Now I had a chance to make good on it” (Paige, 340, Dorothy Must Die) are both quotes that show this kindness. Even though Ollie betrayed her within the first hundred pages in the first book, she still ofered to help him save his sister. This shows that she refuses to go back on promises that she makes, no matter how old. “No, …show more content…
This shows that I am trying to be a better person than I really am, and I want to show people that I’m not all bad. This might mean that I am better than I give myself credit for. Though Amy and I try to be kind people, sometimes things get out of hand, and we get dark. “I was so caught up in my fury that I didn’t notice that, as I kept punching, the pain became less and less apparent . . . Or that, as I punched, the blood pouring out of my fists was seeping into the bricks, and that, one by one, they were turning black” (Paige 263). Amy was so enraged from everything that kept happening to her, and now a yellow brick wall blocking her path, her magic emerged and it was destroying the wall. This scene shows that Amy is becoming more and more powerful by the day, and is now able to shatter one of the most powerful things in the series with her magic alone. But this scene also shows that her magic is too powerful, that she is getting to strong and out of hand for Oz to handle. “. . . I had grown into something new . . . The very thing I had been afriad of turning into. I had become a monster” (Paige