Summary Of The Book Legend Through The Character 'Day'

Through the duration of the novel you get to see why Asher doesn’t like living in his new home and going to his new school. He meets a girl named Rosie that falls in love with him straight away. Rosie would follow Asher to the end of the world and

Carson Oldani 5th hour True Legend Book Genre: Science Fiction Quote: “ Playing ball just fills me up in another way” 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.

In the novel “Tomorrow When the War Began” written by John Marsden, one important idea that was developed throughout the written text was how life events change people. People develop the most during their teenage years which is when they are affected the most during their life.Major life events change people and teenagers need to understand this. In this novel, seven teenagers go camping and when they emerge from the bush there are fires everywhere, the power is out and the animals are dead. The small town of Wirrawee has been invaded by the army. The idea of how life events can change people is shown through the technique of characters. With the events of war, Ellie showed how she grew up and lost her innocence because of the choices she

"Witty, wryly humorous and fast-paced, "The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender" is a thriller with a twist which brilliantly evokes the sleaze below the surface of the city's glittering faade". Is this what the novel is about? Marele Day's novel, "The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender" explores a large scope of issues related

Epitaph Road Protagonist: Kellen Winters Kellen Winters is a fourteen-year-old boy who has been a curiosity his whole life. Becoming a boy under lowered circumstance, made him seem very “abnormal”. Kellen grew up to be very open-minded and accepting of his surroundings, including people in his immediate vicinity. A society consisting of mainly females forced Kellen to feel extremely anxious about his trials. A sequence of tests which determined his future in a female dominated world. But when Kellen’s father is endangered of another plague, Kellen jeopardizes his own life in search of his father, well knowing the consequences. Kellen’s quick thinking and bravery is tested on his journey and is truly admired upon by his comrades.

War can be a stressful time for people and families everywhere. At the current time in the book, world war II is happening. Gene and his friends learn about what is going on across the world. All the lives losses and all the tragedies. Its a difficult time to be a child. In times like that, the kids have to grow up and act serious. Gene and his friends mature quickly and want to help out in the war. Kids are maturing quickly in order to help the country.

This quarter I read the book Legend by Marie Lu and thought it was an excellent book. One of the most important things I learned from this book is that you can't be too quick to trust someone. There are two parts of the book where I found this. One

Throughout the book the students lives were effected greatly as the war progressed and dominated the lives of the students at the Devon academy by them having to train, their thoughts about sports changed, and students enlisting in the war. War has a great impact on peoples lives, causing them to lead different lives than before the war. It can change the way you view things and the things you do on a daily

In the book, Day by Elie Wiesel, the author talks about a man name Eliezer who is faced with issues weather if he can embrace his holocaust survival. Eliezer is a survivor from the holocaust who faces emotional struggle with life or death. This will begin his journey in which he will embark challenges he shall face. A challenge that’s a major part in this novel is having to deal with physical and metal issues which were conflicted by the world he once lived thru that causes suicidal thoughts and an end to his life.

Despite Marie Lu’s portrayal of Day as the archetype of the hero in the book Legend, he often is similar to a villain because he acts selfishly in ways that hurt society, thus adding to the complexity of his character. Day is a high profile criminal with hundreds of offenses against the Republic (government). It is up to June, a Republic soldier, to track Day and bring him to justice. Day clearly fits the hero archetype because he leads by example, inspires hundreds of people to rebel, and most importantly, helps June, a fellow Republic soldier, realize the atrocities her country commits against its people.

A Playdate with Time Young people have always been thought of as the ones who hold time in their hands. They seem to believe that they are invincible and death won’t come knocking to take them to eternity until they are in the later years of life. Because of this belief of time being on their side youngsters fall into experiences whose fragrances of mistake and regret lingered on and shape those same young people’s lives once they become older and mature. Jennifer Egan seems to play with this idea of youthful thinking and element of time in her book A Visit from the Goon Squad.. Through the characters and their experiences she shows how their youthful experiences determined their adult conduct and through the eyes of particular characters the author showed how their perspectives and outcomes in life changed over time.

How far will one go to protect the ones he loves? To him his intentions are good, but others see no good in what he is doing. Clover, also known as Colin has always been trying to live up to his mother’s expectations. After his mother’s death, he becomes obsessed with the idea of a perfect family. He constantly feels that his mother is judging him through his mind. He was convinced that his mother could communicated with him even though she is dead. If she wanted him to do something he did it without hesitation. “I can be good enough. I'm as strong as Mother. No, I'm stronger. I am a stronger person, and I will not fail. I. Will. Not. Fail.” (215). He always felt that he wasn’t good enough so he kidnapped young girls to prove he was. He did

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah has made real to me, the horrors of war and the way it can change everything in an instant, and even cause good people to commit terrible acts to survive. I keep up with world news and

Legend by marie Lu is very high in action and has you sitting on the edge of your seat waiting to read what is gonna happen next.The setting of the book Takes place in the western United States but is now taken over by the Republics. There are two major characters in this story Day and June. Day is a renegade off of the streets and June is an outstanding superior 15 year old student at Drake University and not to mention she is the Republicans most amazing prodigy. Day is running from the government because he is wanted for making the republicans look foolish, in the beginning Day notices that his house has been marked with a weird mark and realizes they marked his house because his family has been detected for plague so he decides to go to

The folktale chapter of, “The Nineteenth Day” in the book the left hand of darkness relates to the main plot of the book by following the same storyline of betrayal and creating traitors. The books overall plot follows the story of an average person clashing with culture alien to him that does not bind to a specific gender. The folktale skews away from the main characters to tell a story about two gethains that face a disturbance in their relationship. One of the characters, Berosty, becomes overwhelmed by information from the foretellers, telling him he will die on the nineteenth day of any month. When his kemmering partner, Herbor, tries to help him out he gets frustrated and ends up killing him, betraying their promise to each other. He