Reflection On Dorothy Must Die

Today’s society is full of caregivers for children who are eager to teach and pass down morals and values. The students of today are not only being taught these morals from parents, teachers, and peers but also the novels they read. Teachers in classrooms should be encouraged to immerse the students in novels that teach them important values through self reflection. Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige is worthy of being included into the ENG2D course because of the novel's values and themes ability to positively influence the lives of the grade ten students to lead tomorrow’s world. The journey of self-discovery is a reoccurring and main theme that Dorothy Must Die possess, choices that many characters in the book made can influence the choices of students who read the novel throughout their own journey. Throughout Dorothy Must Die, Amy Gumm’s family issues and revelation of how one relies on family will open the eyes of sophomores who read the book to family relationships and how stronger relationships can be achieved. Greed is the source of all destruction within …show more content…
It would be a wise move to add this novel to the classroom so that all students can analyze the many themes in the novel and relate them to their own lives. Dorothy Must Die ‘s values can also help to teach important features that will positively impact tomorrows society, when students are the leaders of the world. Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige is worthy of being included into the ENG2D course because of the novel's values and themes ability to positively influence the lives of the grade ten students to lead tomorrow’s world. The novel does so through providing many morals that value society, such as the importance of staying true to yourself, having strong family relationships and to not be greedy. If a book in the classroom had the chance to shape tomorrow’s leaders for the better, why wouldn’t it be