How the novel delivered theme by connecting, relating to society's problems.
Would our modern society actually sound fascinating, if we were to hear and told how it was? Book Legend by Marie Lu is a realistic fiction book that is set in future. United States is divided up with having two different regions, Republic and colonies. The story takes place in Republic. The novel shows two perspectives of people towards their thoughts as the novel is written in two different perspectives of characters who are June and Day. Day is the main character in the book. Day is born from the slum or Lake sectors where it is the poorest region in the Republic. Day's family believes he is dead as he was sent off to the labor camp, but Day escaped and checks …show more content…
In the book, the Trial is a test that determines your future. Trial can be only taken once, when you are ten. June is one of the smartest person in Republic having the perfect score and Day had the score of 674. Day stated that if you get 1500 points or the perfect score, the military will take the person and provide money and lots of power. When you score 1450 and 1499, than you get to go to high school and full year of university where congress will hire and you'll become another elite in the government. Between 1250 and 1449 you get to go to high school and college. If you get points between 1000 and 1249, you are not allowed to proceed more in school to learn and will be working in labor. This can similarly be related to modern testing like SAT where your future can bw chosen. Although the SAT don’t determine your full life to death future, but the test is so significant that it will determine what you will be in the future. Some one who did well in SAT goes to college to pursue their dreams, but someone who gets a bad score can not proceed to college to pursue there dreams. SAT is understandable that you need to take if you want to proceed to your professions, but the test can't show your real strength of real world problem solving. Last of all, if you fail the Trail, you will be sent off to labor camp or be used as a test experiment like lab rats. When a person fails the Trial, they are sent to a labor camp or basically sold off by their parents as they think it is no good to have them and saves the family money. June stated that “Better genes make for better soldiers make for better chance of victory against the Colonies." (13).The republic is doing the removal of the bad gene. This can be similarly related to the gene removal of what Nazis did to Jews. If you are not smart, than you are basically going to die by hard labor in labor camp or used as an experiment of some
Would our modern society actually sound fascinating, if we were to hear and told how it was? Book Legend by Marie Lu is a realistic fiction book that is set in future. United States is divided up with having two different regions, Republic and colonies. The story takes place in Republic. The novel shows two perspectives of people towards their thoughts as the novel is written in two different perspectives of characters who are June and Day. Day is the main character in the book. Day is born from the slum or Lake sectors where it is the poorest region in the Republic. Day's family believes he is dead as he was sent off to the labor camp, but Day escaped and checks …show more content…
In the book, the Trial is a test that determines your future. Trial can be only taken once, when you are ten. June is one of the smartest person in Republic having the perfect score and Day had the score of 674. Day stated that if you get 1500 points or the perfect score, the military will take the person and provide money and lots of power. When you score 1450 and 1499, than you get to go to high school and full year of university where congress will hire and you'll become another elite in the government. Between 1250 and 1449 you get to go to high school and college. If you get points between 1000 and 1249, you are not allowed to proceed more in school to learn and will be working in labor. This can similarly be related to modern testing like SAT where your future can bw chosen. Although the SAT don’t determine your full life to death future, but the test is so significant that it will determine what you will be in the future. Some one who did well in SAT goes to college to pursue their dreams, but someone who gets a bad score can not proceed to college to pursue there dreams. SAT is understandable that you need to take if you want to proceed to your professions, but the test can't show your real strength of real world problem solving. Last of all, if you fail the Trail, you will be sent off to labor camp or be used as a test experiment like lab rats. When a person fails the Trial, they are sent to a labor camp or basically sold off by their parents as they think it is no good to have them and saves the family money. June stated that “Better genes make for better soldiers make for better chance of victory against the Colonies." (13).The republic is doing the removal of the bad gene. This can be similarly related to the gene removal of what Nazis did to Jews. If you are not smart, than you are basically going to die by hard labor in labor camp or used as an experiment of some