Legend Themes

In Legend, there is actually a great deal of backstabbing that goes on. June betrays Day to the authorities after pretending to be another street rat like him, then she finds out that Thomas probab...

After June hears of her brother's death in Legend, she is immediately hell-bent on revenge. After all, Metias was her last living relative and she loved him dearly. Because she's convinced that Day...

Oh boy—things are not looking so great for the citizens of the Republic of America in Legend. Even though families like June's get to live in fancy homes with really over-the-top clothes (she has...

Both of our main narrators in Legend care deeply about their families, even though they come from vastly different circumstances. Day remains in Los Angeles even though it's dangerous for him becau...

No one's really telling the whole truth in Legend. June and Day both realize over the course of the novel that the Republic isn't being honest with its citizens about the plague or the Trial—ther...

When we first meet June in Legend, she is a true patriot to the Republic of America. She wants to go into the military, defends the government at every turn, watches propaganda films, and even atte...

Even though Legend takes place in a totalitarian state, the characters all have the free will to make the choices that they believe are right. It may be difficult to turn her back on everything tha...

In the Republic of America of Legend, there is no shortage of suffering or death. That's because the government has a rather unsentimental view of its citizens; basically, if you aren't useful to t...

In Legend the Republic of America has a great deal of power over its citizens, and boy does the Republic like to abuse that power. Throughout the novel we slowly learn that the Republic's citizens...

If June and Day have one thing in common in Legend, it's that they both totally value the truth. They're not into drinking the Kool-Aid and just swallowing whatever the government tells them; they...