Many people get stuck in situations when they don’t know whether to believe someone else or themselves, but the best results will always come from trusting one’s own instincts. In the scientific fiction novel Warcross, by Marie Lu, the main character, Emika Chen, hacks her way into the biggest virtual online event in history. Shortly after the head creator, Hideo, flys her out to his headquarters where he tells her that he needs her help in finding someone who is hacking into the game. Over time they get feelings for each other, but Emika still works to finish her job in finding the hacker. She figures out who is trying to hack in and send a virus throughout the game, but she also discovers a deep secret about Hideo and doesn’t know what to do. The author uses inner thinking to develop the theme of always doing what is thought to be right by showing how Emika tries to expose the identity of someone. “I should be concentrating on the game right now. But I find myself continuing the hunt” (p. 278). This quote shows that you need to trust and believe in yourself because it explains how instead of listening to her boss and playing the game, she left to go deeper and figure out who else might be in the game. Which ended up working well for her because she found who and what she was looking for, and …show more content…
“He does not give up, and neither do I, so we continue to stand on opposite sides of a ravine. ‘Then you’re going to do it alone’” (p. 346). The theme is proven in this quote because Emika has to make a very important decision. Whether she wants to continue to work not only with her boss, but her lover. Though she believes that it’s better not only for her, but humanity to not continue to work with him. It wasn’t an easy decision for her but it is the best decision she could’ve made. Just like internal conflict, external conflict also expresses the