Legend June And Day Quotes

William Shakespeare once said, “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” Although trust can be one of the hardest things for a person to do, it is what we put our trust in that shapes our future. In the novel, Legend by Marie Lu the main characters, June and Day, learn some hard lessons about trust and betrayal. They learn about what the truth can cost and the consequences of putting your trust in someone else. Through character development and foreshadowing a knowledge of the characters is gained that eventually leads to a gut-wrenching climax. In Legend, June and Day learn of truth, this sheds a light upon the theme which is, the truth can lead to knowledge that was never known before and might change your course of actions and futures. In this novel, the main characters June and Day grow as people by changing not only their actions but also changing their minds. To change their minds and actions they come to several realizations through the revelation of new information into their former lives and information on the lives that they are living now. June, one the Republic’s prodigies, realizes that she has been lied to all of her life by the Republic. “My head hurts. Too many memories, too many revelations...I’d been stupid enough to think she did it out of sympathy. Even my test mission to track Day must’ve been a …show more content…
As the characters develop they begin to perceive the truth and the lies in each person. June begins to perceive that the Republic is untrustworthy while Day begins to perceive that maybe not all of the Republic’s devoted are wrong, but are instead misinformed. Foreshadowing also contributes to the topic of trust by suggesting that June and Day’s trust is misplaced currently but that could all change once the full truth comes out. The truth can be hard to come by but once you learn the truth that knowledge can then lead to a different