Marie Lu Legend Quotes

Adeline Yen Mah is a Chinese girl growing in knowledge with a wealthy family. Then, a new threat arrises... Niang! She is the evil stepmother that tries to burden Adeline with as much issues as she can. Adeline tries to conquer these problems with the help of her other loving family members. In the novel, Chinese Cinderella, by Adeline Yen Mah, the author shows that being unwanted can be overcome by consulting family. She proves this by showing the help that Adeline received from her Ye Ye (grandfather) and her Aunt Baba.

The main characters, Day and June have no reason to cross paths, until the day June's brother, Metias, is killed. Day becomes the most suspected killer. While Day is trying to make sure his family survives, June wants to kill whoever ended her brother,Metias's, death. As the story unravels its dizzying twist and turns, the two realize the reason they came together in the first place.

In the book, Champion, the author Marie Lu uses symbolism, dialogue and inner thinking. In this book, June works for the government and Day used to be a criminal to survive. The people in the country love Day so the government hires him to give hope to people who have lost it since the war between the Republic and the Colonies isn’t going so well for them. Meanwhile, Day and June start to fall in love with each other, but Day is still grieving for his family that has died because of June.

The central theme of Legend by Marie Lu is to never judge a person by their appearance or by how other people view the person. This is the theme because we see many occurrences where the theme is evident in the book and in real life. In real life, we see this theme all around us. In stores, employees ignore a questioning customer simply because they have tattoos or piercings. People should not have problems with tattoos or piercings, because they’re just human beings like the rest of us.

However June’s plan goes awry when June finds out the truth of the terrible ways the government is controlling different classes in its society. As the novel progresses it becomes evident that the

“Will” is a teenage targeted, coming of age novel written by the well renowned Australian author “Maria Boyd”. The text follows the story of a 17-year-old teenage boy named Will who faces a barrage of problems as a result of his actions. After having been caught pulling down his undergarments in front of a group of Lakeside girls, Will is punished by the schools’ deputy principle, Mr Waverton. The punishment being, confinement to the school musical for 3 whole months, in which Will’s character undergoes a large change. As a result of this, the setting used in “the punishment” slowly matures to be one of the main settings present in the text. Specifically, the musical itself had been portrayed in such a delicate manner, that it created a different context to its original definition, it symbolising the redemption that Will strives to achieve throughout the entirety of the 3-month period.

Melinda Sordino, the character in the novel Speak, written by Laurie Halse Anderson. She is an outcast, coward, and a negative person. Melinda Sordino is an outcast. '' Or I could crawl behind the trash can. Or maybe I could dump my lunch straight into the trash and keep moving right on out the door '' (Anderson 8). This quotation clearly demonstrates that Melinda is an outcast. She cannot even think a person she could sit. On the first day, Melinda gets into the auditorium and everyone divides into their clans. She used to be a part of the Plain Janes but now she labelled herself an outcast, she is clanless. Melinda does not see the point in finding her ex-friends. She knows it is not going to work. The only student talks to her as a friend is Heather, new to here, but she

“For a lot of people, life is a series of day by day decisions, living each day trying to do the best we can, and where we end up in life is not always where we would have predicted when we were

If one had to fight in the war would one play pretend? Lobel does. Lobel is a minor character in fallen angels. He is Jewish and suspected homosexual. Lobel is a static character. He hardly changes until the end of the book when he has to kill a cong. Lobel joins the army to get away from his father and to try to change his father thoughts. Lobel has an adequate impact in the book. He is put in this book for people to relate to. Lobel is rebuffed, angry and scared. Without him, it would just be another war story.

Lutie Johnson has an incredible experience throughout her walk, and what she sees throughout it, when she is in the urban city. She has lots of surprises, as tons of different events occur that make her realize that, maybe, the wind and other types of debris may be against her, starting to pick up its pace to draw into her, and other peoples’ tracks. In addition, there are multiple rhetorical devices that control the different occurrences in the world around her. Lutie Johnson observes, and is introduced to the urban setting, in which the way she feels, what similar experiences occur with the other citizens, and by the challenges nature forces her to face.

What made Nora Rodrigues a hero is that she is commited to help immigrants in any wau she can. She stands up for immigrants and helps them with thier paper work. The immigrants she usually help are Centeral Americans, to become Mexicans citizens. The author Mayela Sanchez states, " Rodriguez assits Centeral Americans immigrants who are looking to file paperwork for legal residency in Mexico... Helps them to fill out forms and to write the letters the immigration office requires." This quote shows us how Nora Rodriguez helps immigrants with tgeir paperwork to become Mexicans citizens. She helps themin any way she can, for example she helps her clients fill out paperwork if they need help. She alsohelos them write the letter that goes to the

Marie Lu’s novel, Legend, is focused on two main characters, Day (Daniel Atlan Wing) and June Iparis. Day is a criminal on the run for stealing from the Republic while June, on the other hand, is an elite student at Drake University at the age of fifteen and the Republic’s most prized prodigy. Day watches his family from afar because they have been led to believe that he is dead, he one day sees that his family has a deadly plague. This leads Day to believe that he has to go steal plague medicine from the hospital. June and her older brother, Metias, are orphans, since Metias is a captain in the government, this always leaves June at home alone or at school acting out. On the night that Day decides to steal the medicine, Metias is on duty and

In Lucy Christopher’s novel, Stolen, Gemma has a very strained relationship with the peculiar Australian man because he kidnapped her. At the beginning of the novel, Ty kidnapped Gemma in an airport and took her to Australia and is holding her hostage in a house that he built. Gemma says, “You opened the door and grabbed my T-shirt at the back of the neck. You pulled me toward you, my elbows scraping against the ground”.(20) This quote illustrates how Ty is acting deranged. Gemma is trying to get away from Ty but he sadly caught her before she could go and he acted on his desire to keep her as his prisoner. Furthermore in the book, Ty is trying to keep her from running off again, Gemma says, “My feet were tied to the bedposts with hard, scratchy

In the beginning, when Lennie and George meet the boss it says “The boss pointed a playful finger at Lennie. "He ain't much of a talker, is he?" "No, he ain't, but he's sure a hell of a good worker. Strong as a bull." Lennie smiled to himself. "Strong as a bull," he repeated. George scowled at him, and Lennie dropped his head in shame at having forgotten. The boss said suddenly, "Listen, Small!" Lennie raised his head. "What can you do?" In a panic, Lennie looked at George for help. "He can do anything you tell him," said George. "He's a good skinner. He can Rassel grain bags, drive a cultivator. He can do anything. Just give him a try." The boss turned on George. "Then why don't you let him answer? What are you trying to put over?" George

“ That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of  thorns of flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”