The Legend Begins...

The Criminal and the Prodigy

          Day is the most wanted criminal. He is not the most dangerous criminal, but the most wanted. He makes the Republic look bad by destroying military property, robbing banks, and does other crimes that don't involve casualties or fatal injuries to people. The good thing though is that the Republic doesn't know what he looks like. Everyday on the Jumbo Trons there is a different picture with the words WANTED on it. He and Tess, his companion, watch over Day's old family. They live in the Lake sector, where the plague is affecting everyone and as a routine, the soldiers go to each house to inspect everyone's home for the plague. If there's a plague, they mark the house with a big, red X on the door and takes about 10 minutes. The inspectors get to Day's house. John, his older brother, is the only one who knows Day is alive, he was supposed to be dead. He doesn't tell his other relatives, like Eden, Day's younger brother, and his mom because he wants them to be focused on keeping themselves safe. Plus, Eden turns 10 soon and he needs to study for his trial. The Trial determines your future, it is graded over 1500 and consists of many parts. If you get a score between 1200 and 1400, you pass, 1200 and under and you join the poor or go to a "labor camp" where you die. You fail. 1450 and up, you get access to 6 years of high school and 4 years at the top universities of the Republic. The inspection takes hours and Day gets worried, but when they're finally done, the inspectors draw a red X, with a vertical line across it.      

     June is the Republic's favorite prodigy. She aced her Trial by being one of the few people who had a perfect score of 1500. She is at the principal's office for escaping and climbing a building. She believes that if you want to catch Day, you have to be like him. Her brother, Metias, picks her up with Thomas, his best friend. Thomas has always been polite and nice, well behaved. He gladly takes her home and drives Metias to Los Angeles Central Hospital, where he needs to guard some vials of a mutated virus. June feels sad as she watches him leave. She really loves her brother.

       Day walks in to Los Angeles Central Hospital, he overhears someone tell the nurses about if they need help. He hears the man say his name is Metias. Day acts like he is injured, he wears leather boots, dark clothes and a black wig that covers his long, blonde hair. The soldiers let him in and Day stumbles into one. The soldier looks angrily at Day and tells him to move away and wash his dirty face. Day goes to the bathroom, puts on a mask and runs through the ventilation shaft. He quickly runs down the shaft, reaches the third floor and gets in the room with cures for the virus. He grabs a doctor and threatens the soldiers. There are no cures in the fridge. He runs and runs while soldiers shoot at him. He breaks the glass window and falls into the ground. Before he enters the sewers, Metias greets him, but Day quickly stabs a knife into his shoulder. He runs through the sewers to the city, fatally injured and with no hope. He couldn't get the cures for his family.
 

     "The Republic's favorite little prodigy is in trouble again."(Lu, 11)

This quote is told by June, one of the narrators, and describes her as the little prodigy from the Republic. This tells us that June is very valuable to the Republic and is one of the best in Los Angeles. After this quote, it is told that she has way older classmates and she is one of the youngest people in Drake (college). The way she is described further enhances how awesome she is.

"My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind." (Lu, 22)

The quotes I chose describe the main characters and narrators, Day and June. Day says this one and it describes how he is not what everyone wants him to be. His mother wanted him to be great, to rise from the slums and become someone of importance. In a way, yes, he did fulfill his mother's dreams of becoming famous, but not in the way she wanted. Day is famous for making the Republic look bad, not for being a soldier or someone of higher rank. This quote represents how Day is not someone to admire and he doesn't have a strong connection. Well, not a connection at all.

    CONCLUSION

Day and June are shown to be really awesome people and I can't wait to discover more of their abilities. I really want to know their backstories and how they got to where they are. I hope Marie Lu adds more to the characters than what we know. The story so far is quite good and I want to know what happens to Day's family.