Danielle Paige's 'Dorothy Must Die'

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“ ‘Please,” he (Tinman) repeated. ‘I know what I’ve done. I know I’ve betrayed the people of Oz. I only did it for her.’ A single tear rolled down his cheek” (Paige 449). This quote alone stuck with me throughout the book and it still does. Dorothy Must Die is one of my favorite reads through 2015-2016 and probably will be throughout the rest of my high school career. The sentence alone sets up the main theme of the story and novel trilogy. That the characters we knew and loved a long time ago gained too much power after gaining their brains, hearts, and courage and wanted to take over the Land of Oz for good. I will be visualizing how Danielle Paige created the Land of Oz through the eyes of Amy Gumm, and even though it’s a set out to

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