In Legend by Marie Lu the author uses symbolism to explain the effect of the plague. At this point in the story June reads Metias’s message in her apartment. She has memories of Metias and looks back at her life. June has a serious qualm about the Republic, and she thinks if it is really an ally to her. She then ponders the effects of the plague, “I think of Metias, my parents, then of Day’s mother, and his brothers. The plague has gotten its claws around all of us, in one way or another. The plague murdered my parents. The plague infected Day’s brother. It killed Metias for uncovering the truth of it all...And behind the plague is the Republic itself”(Lee 250). This scene reveals that the plague symbolizes death and destruction because it
