The Theme Of Prodigy By Marie Lu

In the novel, Prodigy, by Marie Lu, the theme is not everything you see is true. In this novel, there are two characters’ point of view, Day and June. They’re fighting for the freedom of the people, and trying to change the ways of the republic. In this novel, the author shows the theme through dialogue during the interrogations or characters, the actions of Razor’s lies or the government's’ secrets, and multiple points of views from June and Day and more.

Marie Lu shows that people tells lies about the truth by dialogue through the scenes of after June and Day run away from the failed assassination but get founded by a friend, named Kaede who came to tell the truth behind the patriots. “The Republic hired the Patriots to assassinate Anden.” …show more content…
Throughout the book the switches off first person views with between June and Day, but also it shows other people’s perspective through the eyes of June and Day. For example, they use the June and her thoughts to show the perspective of Thomas, “I trail off as Thomas continues to stare at the floor, his expression oscillating between blankness and pain.”(105), This shows the point of view of Thomas, he was considered an enemy of both June and Day, the person that ruins everything. He ruined June and day by killing her some of their family members. In reality, Thomas was as broken as to June and Day was,“I listen in shocked silence. Thomas had never wanted to kill Metias.” (104-105) Thomas was so loyal to the Republic that he broken himself and others for the sake of an oaf, this connects to the theme because everyone saw Thomas as this heartless devil, but the it was the Republic controlling him, and that Thomas was also very disappointed with himself. This addition this connects to June, right after the murder of she was told that Day had killed Metias (June’s brother). “That’s what your pretty Elector's doing to my brother. Now, you still think he released him?” (260) This goes with the theme because he doesn’t believe that his that his brother is alive or health. Day always assumes the worse because of past experience, he believe that his brother is a “test rat” in a Republic lab. He thinks that June is lying about that his brother is safe, and doesn’t know if he should even trust her anymore because he thinks she is loyal to the Republic now based on Tess and Beaxer brainwashing him with their bias lies. “...but he’s here, alive and well, strong enough to walk and talk.”(356) but the truth is, the Elector did free him, and that his brother is alive and well, and not a test rat with a starving