Review Of ' Legend ' By Marie Lu

Everyday, people are forced to make choices. Some of those choices are fairly easy to make, and others are not. In the short story “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor, a man by the name of Tom T. Shiftlet stumbles across a farm where an old woman and her daughter, Lucynell Crater, reside. When the author first introduces the readers to Mr. Shiftlet, he is described as “a tramp and no one to be afraid of” (674). What starts as a man accidentally coming across the woman’s farm, becomes a story that follows Tom through his unrealized quest for love and acceptance. With the help of Ms. Crater and Lucynell, Tom learns that his choices have consequences. In “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, O’Connor creates a world in

Summary: Mike Lupica’s book True Legend takes place in Agoura Hills, Southern California. The main character Drew “True” Robinson a 16 year old basketball phenom at Oakley Academy, he has some troubles along the way, a little romance and makes some new friends. He would love to to go to the NBA.

Roger Ebert once said "Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you." In the short story "The Wife 's Story" Ursula K. Le Guin creates the mood of suspense by using foreshadowing and other literary devices. Suspense is a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen. The entire story is filled with the state of feeling of uncertainty as the wife solely alludes to the major event. It is also obscured in mystery.

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.

The novel “Legend” by Marie Lu is set in dystopic future Los Angles. Day is the most wanted criminal in the Republic of America; however, behind his criminal façade he is a teenager living a life of poverty trying his best to protect his family. In order to protect his family Day embarks on a hospital heist to gain medication to save his family from the plague currently sweeping the nation. During the heist a Captain of Military named Metias is killed who was the brother of the Republic’s young prodigy, June. June is a young, intelligent soldier of a wealthy family and elite status; after discovering about her brother’s murder she pledges she will find his assumed killer, Day.

Does deviating from one’s gender norms inevitably doom one down a spiral of moral corruption? Tim O'Brien, author of “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” and Ernest Hemingway, author of “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”, certainly seem to hold this view, as evident by the fates of the major female characters in their respective works. The deviance of the major female characters in both works appears to corrupt not only themselves, but also pollute their partners, causing them to suffer injury or harm as a result. The degree of injury ranges from negligible, like Fossie’s demotion and broken heart, to fatal, like the bullet that rips through Macomber’s skull. It begs the question, are these stories meant to serve as cautionary tales for their female readers, or possibly for their husbands, so they may recognize gender deviance and stop it in its tracks before their wives transform into Margot Macomber or Mary Anne Bell? This essay will analyze what such characters say about pervading views of women, both in society and in literature.

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

Lisa Belkin's Show Me a Hero: a Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption is a non-fiction novel that takes place within Yonkers, New York, and talks about the public housing development within the city. It addresses the problems towards the people. At the beginning of and end of the book, Belkin asks two questions “Did it work for the people who moved in? And did it work for those who were already there?”

In The Sun Also Rises, during the transition of society from World War I to post-war, values transformed from the “old-fashioned” system of what was morally acceptable to a system that held the basic belief that anything of value, whether tangible or intangible, could be exchanged for something of equal value. This novel specifically pinpoints the transformation of the values of money, alcohol, sex and passion (aficion), friendships and relationships, and even one’s pain.

After finishing Legend, I read the entire novel called Prodigy. Marie Lu’s rapturing book is a continuation of the story of Day and June. In this book they have joined up with the Patriots and are trying to bring about a change to the Republic.

But also the downs when June starts to fall in love for the leader of the Republic. Prodigy by Marie Lu explores how the love between Day and June can make each other do many things that they wouldn’t do in any other situation. They main characters Day and June show this when June leaves all of her family fortunes to go and help day. When June finds out some secret plan from the republic about Day. She notifies Day and only Day.

We see yet again another movie with a covenantal theme, as covenantal agreement is a common concept in many people's daily lives. "Babette's Feast (1987)" is a Danish movie that takes us into the lives of two women, Martine and Philippa. Three scenes from the movie that embodies a covenantal theme are: one for the beginning of the movie is the theme of loyalty, from the scene where the women at their early days chose their father over their suitors, Another from the middle of the movie is the theme of perseverance, from the scene where Martine and Philippa both sat in quietly in the midst of the other believers as they all argued endlessly. The last theme of selflessness is illustrated in the scene where Basette reveals to the women that she used her winnings to prepare their father's hundredth birthday dinner in his remembrance. This essay would touch more on each of the listed themes of loyalty, perseverance, and selflessness, from each of the three mentioned scenes from the movie.

‘The Evolution of Mara Dyer’ is a novel written from the perspective of the teenage Mara Dyer. Successfully writing a novel from the first person perspective of a teenager can be difficult as the author has to effectively convey emotions and events to the reader through a range of literary techniques whist remaining an informal tone however, author Michelle Hodkin manages to achieve an appropriate balance.

In her poem “The Golden Age”, Aphra Behn divides nature from civilization, almost in a biblical sense of Eden and after-Eden. Nature and civilization are separated as a positive and negative experience where love is dishonoured, and sin takes over Earth. Through this before and after division, Behn shows how the fall of mankind led to the oppression of the female sex as woman, associated with love, kept the world pure until man, associated with honour, took over. Thus creating “Pleasure, Nature’s worst Disease” (148). When Nature is overpowered by civilization, gender issues arose. This division of gender issues sets women up to be a tease or object of pleasure rather than an equal lover who is free to her own sexuality. “The Golden Age” presents the fall of natural order with the rise of man.

In this second section of “The Forty Rules of Love,” Desert Rose the Harlot’s observation on human nature is the first thing we learn in her introduction. She is a prostitute, believing herself to be a filthy thing, the lowest of the low. She desires to dig herself out of this hole, yet other people apparently do not want that to happen. She reveals, “All I know is, some people feed on the miseries of others and they don’t like it when there is one less miserable person on the face of the earth” (116). I agree with this observation, for it is not enough to succeed, but we must see others fall. This pleasure derived from other’s misfortune, in my eyes, resembles a Roman holiday, and some equivalent to the German term Schadenfreude. A central