People all make choices, thousands of them a day, actually. People can choose anything from what outfit to wear or to how to react in a situation. The choices people make define them. Choices appear in all daily life and also in literature. In the book The Young Elites, the protagonist, Adelina, makes some good and bad choices. She is a villain, though, because “life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it” (“Charles R Swindoll Quotes” 1). In several instances of the book, she has the choice to do the right thing, but the darkness inside her takes over, and she reacts with anger and hatred. She often chooses wrong when making a decision. Adelina is a villain because she lacks morality, uses fear to fuel her powers, and even scares her closest friends and allies.
For Adelina, the lines between right and wrong are very blurred. When her mom dies, her only parental figure is her dad, Sir Martino. Her dad has a very messed up sense of morality himself, and Adelina is raised with that morality as her only sense of good and bad. Her father only really cares about Adelina and her sister because they would sell at age seventeen to be married, and Sir Martino would be paid for them. Yet, after the blood fever strikes and Adelina is marked as a Malfetto, she is no longer sellable because no man wants to marry a marked woman. …show more content…
Though she might fight for a heroic cause, she does not use heroic actions. She certainly is not a hero because heroes hope and dream for a better future. Adelina does not know what she strives for, and because of this she destroys everything and everyone around her. If Adelina responded differently to her situations, maybe she could be argued a hero, but unfortunately she does not. She responds without thinking about the morality or the effect of her actions which makes her fundamentally the villain she
For Adelina, the lines between right and wrong are very blurred. When her mom dies, her only parental figure is her dad, Sir Martino. Her dad has a very messed up sense of morality himself, and Adelina is raised with that morality as her only sense of good and bad. Her father only really cares about Adelina and her sister because they would sell at age seventeen to be married, and Sir Martino would be paid for them. Yet, after the blood fever strikes and Adelina is marked as a Malfetto, she is no longer sellable because no man wants to marry a marked woman. …show more content…
Though she might fight for a heroic cause, she does not use heroic actions. She certainly is not a hero because heroes hope and dream for a better future. Adelina does not know what she strives for, and because of this she destroys everything and everyone around her. If Adelina responded differently to her situations, maybe she could be argued a hero, but unfortunately she does not. She responds without thinking about the morality or the effect of her actions which makes her fundamentally the villain she