The Use Of Historical Content In Victoria Aveyard's The Red Queen

The Literary choices the other decides on for the Red Queen In the novel, The Red Queen,by Victoria Aveyard. The protagonist Mare lives in a world divided by blood. It is the Silvers and the Reds. Silvers being the ones with abilities and that are destined for the elite class. The Reds your lower class is segregated for not being”special”. The twist however, is Mare. She is a Red, yet she too has abilities. Why did the author decide on this twist, and how was it important to this novel? In this document we will be discussing some of the devices used. Such as characterization, semantics, and also some historical content in an effort to disclose the author’s purpose. The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, Aveyard uses characterization to classify

In the article Racial Segregation in the United States reads as,” In most cities, the only way blacks could relieve the pressure of crowding that resulted from increasing migration was to expand residential areas...a process that often resulted in harassment and attacks by white residents whose intolerant attitudes were intensified by fears that black neighbors would cause property values to decline”. Back during the time of Martin Luther King Jr. there was a divide between whites and colored. A grown colored man could not go to the same bathroom as a grown white man. A similar form of segregation could be seen in The Red Queen as Mare states,” As is customary, the officers are silvers, and silvers have nothing to fear from us Reds. Everyone knows that. We are not their equals , though you wouldn’t know it from looking at us. The thing that distinguishes us, outwardly at least, is that silver's stand tall”(5). For Mare and the people in her world segregation deals with the color of blood and the class system. Ranking each other on their strength and abilities. Both in the real world and in the Red Queen you find people put down in one form or another. The relevance of this towards the story deals with how many fought to overcome this segregation just how Rosa Parks and Martin sought for their