Legend By Marie Lu Theme Statement

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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

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