The Black Streak

 The Truth Behind the Lies

       June visits a gala being held to celebrate her capture of Day. She hears Thomas say that Eden's case is confidential and many generals have gone to see him. The Elector Primo (basically the president) gives June 200,000 Notes(currency) for her capture and congratulates her. She is uneasy because of Day's mom but she tries to forget about it. She reminds her of Metias.

       June keeps researching about Day. She reads his files and she is surprised. The file says he died at age 10 and that he scored 674/1500 on his trial. No one scores that low. She hacks the security and checks his tests. Amazing at physical tests and his written exam and interview were perfect. Day has a score of 1500. June isn't the only prodigy of the Republic.

      Commander Jameson wakes Day and takes him to his sentence. They assign his sentence on four days. After this, Day is taken to a roof where he is chained to the ground. He stays there for two days and then he goes back to the cell. He is barely recognizable.

      June visits Day and informs him of his Trial. He says that they took a piece of his knee, injected something in his eye, and force-fed him a medicine that made his heart stop and then he woke up in a morgue. June realizes that they did all this to make their soldiers see better, think smarter, and endure harsher conditions. Day tells her that he thinks the Republic is intentionally infecting the poor people to test viruses. Everything he says fits.

    While she sits at her house, June reads and views photos of Metias. Then she starts to get curious about his death. What if Day didn't kill him? She keeps looking and hacks the Republic she views the images of Metias and watches the knife closely. It has some sort of black mark that looks like rifle grease. Just like the rifle grease streak Thomas had on his forehead.

"I am no longer the Republic's only prodigy with a perfect score." (Lu, 187)

June finally realizes that she isn't the only one that has perfect scores and that Day is a perfect example of a perfect soldier. I think that the way she finds this is amazing and proves how smart she is. Even though she doesn't have Day's physique, she's still more analytic than him.

"Well, let me tell you a secret. I'm from a poor sector too. But I followed the rules. I worked my way up, I earned my country's respect."(Lu, 218)

I chose this quote because I think that the fact that Thomas was from a poor sector is a big deal. Now we can understand him better and kind of see why he is some sort of lapdog. He always follows the rules and hates the poor. Why he hates them, we have no idea. I want to know his past and what caused him to be like this.

CONCLUSION

This reading was crazy. There is a lot of information and so little to write! I try to summarize as best as I can while putting the important details but Marie Lu likes details. I think that she is one of the best writers and she keeps nagging at me telling me to read and find out the truth. Can't wait to read more. I want to know the truth. Doesn't everybody?