Marie Lu's Dramatic Irony

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In the book Legend written by Marie Lu, she uses dramatic irony to allow the readers to be more knowledgeable than characters. At one point in the story, June is frantically running away from the skiz fight because she’s afraid. A mob of people who were watching the skiz fight chases after June to bring her back into the ring. Suddenly, Day rescues June from the aggressive mob. June believes Day killed her brother and has been hunting Day down, but both June and Day don’t know what each other look like yet. This whole scene is explained from June’s perspective of the story, but once Day helps June run away, Day narrates his perspective of the story. “Then there’s a voice telling me to get up. When I look to my side, I see a boy holding out

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