Dorothy Must Die Summary

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Today I will be talking about the characters, plot, themes and the purpose of the novel Dorothy Must Die. There is one main plot to the book, that is ending Dorothy’s rein over Oz. As is made obvious from the title of the book, Dorothy must die or rather be assassinated by a group of people. She had saved Oz once. She had gone back to her home land of Kansas, where she was being treated like a farm girl once again. She then came back to Oz were she took control over the land trying to suck the magic out of the land by enslaving the munchkins. The group of people associated with the down fall of Dorothy is the wicked order. They are witches or refugees from Dorothy and her ruling, they have been trying to kill her for years. When Amy Gumm,

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