Legend Summer Reading Assignment

Part 1: Character Identification

Using supporting details from the text of Legend, provide a few pieces of information that identify who each character is and why he or she is important/significant. 1. Day: 2. June: 6. Kaede: 3. Tess: 7. John 4. Metias: 8. Eden 5. Thomas: 9. Commander Jameson

Part 2: Read the following character quotes. Explain how the quote describes the character’s personality.

10. “Better genes make for better soldiers make for better chance of victory against the Colonies, my professors always say.” - June

11. “What a waste of a good soldier.” - Commander Jameson says to June about her brother

12. “If there’s something we need to hear about, the generals will tell us.” – Thomas says to June

13. “She was a girl who’d lost her brother, and someone had led her to believe I did it, and in anguish she had tracked me down. If I’d been in her place, would I have done anything differently?” – Day says to self

14. “If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.” – Metias says in his journal

15. “Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time...You try to walk in the light.” - Day says to June p.

16. “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. The rest of you people just sit around and complain and blame the state for your bad luck. Bunch of dirty, lazy cons.” – Thomas says to Day p. 219

17. “What a bunch of cons, men who had barely passed their Trials. I wonder if I can catch the plague from these people, even though I’m vaccinated. Who knows where they’ve been. Then I stop myself. Metias had told me never to judge the poor like that.” – June says to self

Part 3: The Boy Who Walks in the Light

Using supporting details from Legend, answer the following questions. Responding in complete sentences is preferable.

18. What do the soldiers do when they enter the houses in the Lake sector? Why are they doing this? As the soldiers are leaving, what do they do to the door of Day’s former home? 19. What do the different scores in the Trial mean? What was June’s score? What was Day’s? 20. What does Day want from the hospital? How does he get in? 21. Describe the relationship between June and her classmates at Drake. 22. Describe the relationship between Day and Tess. How did they meet? 23. Compare and Contrast the Lake Sector to the Ruby Sector. 24. What is the Republic and where is it located? 25. Why is June seeking out Day? 26. How do June and Day meet? Describe their initial relationship. 27. How does June figure out Day’s identity? 28. What causes Day to commit his first crime? Describe the crime.

Part 4: The Girl Who Shatters The Shining Glass

29. Why did the Commander want to shoot the protesters? 30. Is Day responsible for the death of his mother/protesters? 31. What does June find out from reading her brother’s journals? 32. Why does June agree to help Day escape? 33. Why would the government plague its people on purpose? 34. Describe how Day escapes his execution. 35. How does Day choose his nickname? What does this say about him?

Part 5: Themes and Symbolism

36. Lu references Day’s necklace/pendent throughout the novel. Describe the significance of Day’s pendent. Why does Day always reach for it in the beginning? Why is it important to June? What is hidden inside? Why hide such a common item? 37. What role does REBELLION play throughout the novel? 38. What role does FAMILY play throughout the novel? 39. In the beginning June is repulsed by what she sees in the Lake Sector but she changes as the novel progresses. How/why does this change occur? 40. An epic hero is literature is a “larger than life” leader who embodies the ideals of a society but remains flawed. In what ways are June and Day epic heroes?