The Dystopian In Marie Lu's The Republic

Marie Lu’s futuristic dystopian novel, Legend takes place on the west coast of the United States. Except it isn’t the United States anymore. The Republic is in the west and the Colonies are in the east. In all of the poor sectors in the Republic they seem to be getting the plague. If you had the plague your skin would be cracked and you would be bleeding everywhere. Day is the most wanted criminal in all of the Republic. The thing is, they have wanted signs all over. Yet they don’t even know what Day looks like. June is a girl with a free spirit and her only family is her brother, a captain in the Republic’s military. One day, Day breaks into a research hospital to get plague cures for his brother, Eden, who is getting weaker and weaker. One …show more content…
June fights for vengeance for her brother’s death, and Day fights for his family. On page 252 the theme is shown very clearly. Day tries to break out of his prison cell to save his brother John from his cell. John didn’t do anything wrong, but the Republic thinks he is a criminal because he is related to Day, he must be a criminal too. This shows that, Day believes John is innocent, so he fights for John and almost gets himself killed just trying to save him.Another example, later on in the book, on page 293 John sacrifices himself for Day. Day was going to be executed; John knew it, everyone knew it. John believed that Day could save their little brother and bring their dead family to justice. So to save Day from being executed, John made the guards think that he was Day. He ran towards where they were going to execute Day just as he had planed. They put “Day” in front of a firing squad, and shot him until he was dead. On page 297, Day says, “Why did he do it?” He also says’ “it should have been me.” Day knows that John did it because he believed Day could save Eden. He still feels bad about John having to give his life just because he did nothing wrong but Day