Legend by Marie Lu is a story about two, teen main characters living in a war stricken society. Completely opposite, even enemies, Day and June are forced join together to stop their government. Marie Lu does an excellent job of letting the readers see their, June and Day’s, side of the story. She also brings up real events that have happened in history that will cause the war of tomorrow. This book grabs the reader's attention, and warns them of the future that we may one day face. Lu organizes the book Legend by writing it from two perspectives, June and Day. By doing this, we are able to see how each individual is treated whether they are poor, like Day, or rich and respected, like June. Each perspective, which rotates and is similar to …show more content…
This causes the reader to see that each “journal entry” includes many dream sequences. Marie Lu uses these dreams to reveal information about the past, and help the characters realize things that they haven't consciously put together yet. For example, Day describes him and his friend Tess escaping from soldiers in a dream he had saying, “I’m running in the streets of Lake, Tess is running too, but she doesn’t know where I am” (Lu, 205). When Day wakes up, he is in a cell only to find out from June that Tess is looking for him desperately. This shows that the Senderhauf 2 dreams are used for foreshadowing. A clever and suspenseful impact, this form of writing technique, has on the readers. As more and more dreams are describe, the readers are able to piece together a plot for the story. This plot is complex at first because Marie Lu gives introduces many different plots at first. We jump all over the place, from June and Day’s childhood to their teenage years. This is mainly because it is the first book in the series and the readers need to know the characters background to understand their present day problems. The two characters meet after June tracks Day down due to the false belief that he killed her brother. They only find out their …show more content…
After freeing him, they fled their country only to remember, that their home is in danger. Marie Lu then leaves the readers with a cliffhanger, to encourage us to continue with the rest of the series. The title of the book Legend also represents meaning in the story. The book is all about the meeting of two very different famous figure of this dystopian. Day, a criminal, is the most wanted, youngest criminal making him a legend around his fellow criminals. June is the youngest soldier and prodigy which makes her a legend in the government and society. The choice to make the word “Legend” singular rather than plural may be because they are the almost the same person. June and Day may be mortal enemies with different backgrounds but deep down inside, they have a whole lot in common. Senderhauf 3 All together, Marie Lu did a wonderful job entertaining and warning us of a future dystopian due to our present day actions. She also uniquely set up her book, so we have two protagonists, even though we see Day as an antagonist at first. The title, Legend, also plays a key role to the story plot, providing a deeper meaning for the two characters. In the end, readers are able to be satisfied with the plot, but wish to continue reading thanks to a
background and how she was brought up when she was younger. I know the history and
In the short story "Leaving the Iron Lung" Carter, Anne Laurel Carter emphasizes contrasting characters to demonstrate that dreams and safety have their own limits. First, Agathe represents Pauline’s safety
are what keep us interested in the plot of a book. The ongoing battle between a
within the fact that this book has no immediate plot. It is more of a
...cters and event influences, helping them to develop their character by the end of the story.
Curtis experiences a vast amount of different tragedies in his nightmares. In his first dream that he endured, a storm came and the rain was thick, black and resembled motor oil. In Curtis’s second dream, his dog turns on him when the storm makes the dog go crazy and attack him. When Curtis wakes up his arm is in pain throughout the day from where his dog supposedly attacked him. The third dream Curtis and his daughter Hannah are driving through the storm and the rain is so thick that he can barely see out of his windshield. Someone is standing in the middle of the road and when Curtis swerves off the road to avoid hitting them, him and Hannah wreck and someone breaks open the window of the truck and steals Hannah away. Curtis tries to fight back but is unsuccessful when one of the figures in his dream begins choking him. In the fourth dream, Curtis walks into the living room where Hannah is staring out the window, he looks and someone is standing there looking in and then tries to break into the house. Curtis and Hannah hide behind the furniture and the furniture begins to float and Curtis loses oxygen and can no longer breathe. The fifth dream Curtis’s wife Samantha wakes up to Curtis struggling, seizing, and bleeding from his mouth. Curtis explains that his dream was about his good friend Dewart attacking him with a pickaxe. Curtis’s sixth dream he walks into the kitchen where Samantha is standing looking
Thesis Statement: Both 1984 by George Orwell and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood are similar as they are placed in dystopian societies with governments that have complete control over their citizens, however, the roles of the narrator in both novels contrast with each other. In 1984, the point of view is Limited Omniscient while the point of view in The Handmaid's Tale is first person. 1. Topic Sentence: As there are differences in the narration of both the novels, 1984 and the Handmaid’s Tale, the role of the narrators will be quite different as readers see different perspectives in each novel. In The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, readers are introduced to Offred, who is a handmaid in the Republic of Gilead.
way that grasps the reader’s interest until the very end. The book did not address many
book I was greatly troubled by its ending. I can see why it is an excellent novel, but at
“Straining his eyes, he saw the lean figure of General Zaroff. Then... everything went dark. Maggie woke up in her bed. “Finally woke up from that nightmare. Man… I miss my brother. Who was that person that my brother wanted to kill?” she looks at the clock and its 9:15am “Crap I’m late for work!” Maggie got in her car and drove to the hospital for work.
She remembers a nightmare where she did not know where or who or what she was, nor what was happening. “Do you know she is going to die, Jewel?” Darl said. “It takes two people to make you, and one people to die.” I said to Dewey Dell: “You want her to die so you can get to town: is that it?”
Immediately this comes into effect as John says, "But...Between you and me, you understand?... Well, I wake in the night... and watch her dream... and sometimes her mouth even moves, just a little bit. It's like a whisper. I can never make that out. I don't know where she goes, in her dreams. I don't even know if I'm in them...I don't think I can bear losing her."
The very fact that the novel has a first-person narrative is significant. This usually allows readers to know and understand more about the narrator's character, as the text is ?written' by him.
In order to further discuss her main points and views, a summary of her story
essential part of the novel as it brings out a key theme in the novel