Comparison Of Honesty In Prodigy And Thirteen Reasons Why

Everyone has felt the issue of having to be honest or to not be honest at all. People may lie just so they don’t have to be caught in any situations that they may not want to be in. In the books Prodigy and Thirteen Reasons Why both of the authors chose for their main characters to go through these types of dilemmas. Prodigy by Marie Lu stars Day the Republic’s most wanted criminal and June the prodigy who has helped Day come this far in the series. In Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher there is a girl named Hannah that had recently committed suicide and now a boy named Clay wants to know more about what caused her to kill herself. They seem like two totally different books, but they both revolve around honesty.

Connecting both of the texts

In Prodigy they want you to realize that some things you have to keep to yourself, considering on page 259. This is when June had basically forced Day to bail on the Patriots plan, which the Patriots are known for helping out the Colonies but they aren’t part of them completely. The plan, however, was to assassinate the new elector, Anden, as I have stated earlier. “You believed him!?” (Page 259) Day is not considering what the consequences would be to stating his anger towards June. He got caught in his other emotions to even think about what he was saying before he actually told them. He hurt June’s feelings by being honest with her. Another example in the text for Prodigy would be on the next page, page 260 where it states “he gets angrier as he goes.” This is the part where Day is still is going off about June’s decision on bailing on the Patriots. This basically shows the same thing that when Day becomes more and more honest with June and actually gives out his own opinion, he gets angry at June for shooting them down, even though he expects her to continue to support him even if she would disagree with his claims. This shows that you should be less honest, or at least think about what you are saying before speaking. Since Day is unwilling to let the case go he decided to argue about it. Being more honest to June, while June feels as if she was doing wrong. The author Marie

Such as page 216, “Why did I listen? I could have helped her.” During this scene, Clay finally realized that Hannah was lying about, all of her being fine when Clay and here were talking. Hannah demanded him to leave, in which of course, being the obedient person he is, he did in fact leave. But now he notices his mistake and wishes that he would take back that moment in time. This part of the book shows that once someone, such as Hannah Baker in Thirteen Reasons Why, is honest with you, you can finally see where they are coming from. But since it was too late for the honesty to come out, then it seemed as if it was too late to help. Another page would be page 219 “My voice breaks, and after that break comes a flood of tears” This is still one of the pages where he realizes his mistake as stated earlier. This part of the book happens right after he talks to his friend about how he should have helped her, he was being more honest to himself and to his friend that had helped him out with the pain of her being gone. In which this also signifies honesty Clay is being more honest with himself towards the end of the book. He realizes that he is at fault for this whole mess. Claiming that it was all his fault. He forces himself to be honest with himself as he knows now what had happened to Hannah. The author Jay