Legend By Marie Lu

Courtney Bell

Mrs. Biddle and Mrs. Yates

Competroy of World Literature Period 8

25 September 2015

Summer Assignment Legend by Marie Lu is a young adult fiction, and an action novel.The book is written about two separate teenagers lives that intertwine with each other. It starts off with Day a criminal that is on the run from the government called Republic. He has a series of crimes that goes against the government so he can never return home and be with his family ever again because if he does he will be sentences for his crime. So he watches his family from abroad, and his family does not know this because they all think he is died. So in his part of tpen there is a plague going around and he realizes that one of his family members

At every turn of the page there were twist, and turns and got you glued to the book. She starts of the book as painting Day as the villain and by towards of the ended of the book as the hero. She simple does it by using perspectives as her tools. It starts out with the government viewpoint as Day a rebellious trouble person, who does not care about anyone or anything. Doing anything in his power to do want he wants and when he wants. She portrays this by the how she framed him as a murderer, just to get medicine to protect his own; and does not take into constriction of the fact that he killed a life trying to save someone else. By the end Lu paints him as a hero by June’s brother Metias notes. That the government is the reason why she is an orphan, took the only person she ever knew away, and massacre people by making up the plague; that none of this was Day’s fault and should not care the burden. That he is an innocent bystander trying to stand up what is right and just in the world. By Lu painting both sides of the argument she leaves you as a read to decide which side of the argument do you agree with or is their a grey middle that cannot be simple concretely as the typical good or bad. Also Lu leaves you with a sense of responsibility to sympathetic with citizens in the Republic who does not know about the whole agenda of the government. She makes it appear that everyone in the country is in the fuzzed grey zone, until they knew that they were used by the manipulative and the decisive government who has hatched a diabolical plan. By this she paints each character as either black or white, good or evil; as a piece on the chess pieces on the game played by the government. It is at the point where you are about to be checkmate you realizes, that you were a pawn to protect the so called queen called the government. At this point you cannot turned back the clock and realize that you were