Day runs, turns, and throws a knife that lodges in Metias’ shoulder. As he is about to leave the area, a guard named Metias spots him and stops him just short of the door. Unfortunately, when he gets to where the cure would be stored, he finds that the hospital has run out of the drug. The focus shifts to Day, again, who is breaking into the hospital to try and steal plague medicine for his brother and his family. The reader learns that Metias is a captain in the army and has been June’s sole guardian since their parents’ car accident a few years earlier. She is suspended from school, and her brother comes to get her. This particular day, June has decided to climb a skyscraper in midtown. Her brother, Metias is always bailing her out of trouble as a result.

Rebelling against her ‘perfect’ status at the college, June is constantly placing herself in danger, taking risks just to prove that she is not better than anyone else. Since June has a perfect score on her test, she has been sent to Drake University. Participants who score very low are sent to a labor camp where they disappear forever. Depending on their score, they are either sent to the best universities and high schools, or vocational schools. The Trial test, the reader learns, is an aptitude test that all children take when they turn ten. June is one of the only people to have scored a perfect score on her Trial test. Switching points of view, the story shifts to another of the novel’s protagonists, June Iparis. The only thing Day has to remember his family by is a pendant that he wears.

A large X is placed on his old home with a horizontal line slashed through it. During this particular check on his family, Day learns that his youngest brother, Eden, has contracted a particularly nasty strain of the plague. John knows because Day gives him money, food, and clothing on a regular basis. No one in the family, except his brother John, even knows that Day is still alive.

Day checks on his family regularly by observing their house from afar. Acting like a modern day Robin Hood, he steals from the rich and gives to those less fortunate (including his own family).Īt the beginning of the story, Day and his friend Tess, a thirteen year old orphan, stop by Day’s old neighborhood to check on Day's family. A boy named, Day, one of the protagonists, is a homeless enemy of the state. Los Angeles has suffered a catastrophic flood, and a new government has come into power. Legend by Marie Lu is set in a distant future on Earth.

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