Why Dorothy Must Die

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1 My favorite character in Dorothy Must Die would probably be Nox. Nox was one of those characters that you really didn’t learn much about until the end of the story. I think that’s why he seemed so appealing to me whilst reading. He would go from being nice to having a hard backbone in this story. Also, the fact that he had a different form of magic than everyone else set him apart, which is one of the reasons that he stood out rather than the rest of the witches.

2 I can predict, based on the ending of the story that Amy and The Order will set out to take down the evil tyranny taking place in Oz. Amy doesn’t have anywhere to go back to in Kansas, after the tornado ruined her trailer home, sweeping her to Oz, and away from her bullies and her “less than concerned” mother. So, even if she could go back home, it wouldn’t be back to Kansas. Which leads me to believe she will continue to work with the “wicked” to take down the “good”.

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During this book, Oz’ is filled with tyranny, munchkin labor, and no magic. What’s Oz without it’s magic? Also, things aren’t the same without magic and Ozma as ruler. The talking trees don’t talk, the flying monkeys don’t fly, and most importantly, the warlocks are seemingly going to war. Now, the before Oz on the other hand, I might consider.

5 I liked this book a lot because of its interesting theme. Contrary to the common, “Good versus Evil” theme, Dorothy Must Die takes an interesting twist, It shows you that, some good is evil, some evil is good, and that theres a lot in between. The good, a lot of time can be infiltrated with evil or bad intentions, but people fail to see that bad because it is labeled as good. Also, a lot of times, Evil is misunderstood to be something with ONLY bad intentions, when sometimes, people just don’t see ‘evil’ as it wholly

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