Thread:Edcakes/@comment-4816103-20150121225943/@comment-4816103-20150127064209

GOOD FOR YOU.

Mwahaha.

It's not fair, but the Republic doesn't care, all they want to do is keep their power over the people any way they can, which is also why they send in the plague to kill the people in the slums. It's a Hunger Games type thing. Population control. It's meant to be cruel, but the Republic accepts it because it's all they know. Oh, and they were originally optional, but then the Elector was like, "No, it's mandatory for everyone now, and it'll favor the rich because I don't care about you poor people."

I was talking book two, where they have an entire argument about this and spend the entire time conflicted and feeling confused about who to trust or if they could even trust each other. At the end of book 1, June agrees with Day, but only out of anger for what happened to her parents as well as because she grew attached to Day even with the short time span. She just felt bad for him because he didn't actually do anything wrong.

Day is untrusting and lets his hatred for the Republic blind him even when the facts are clear. He's also prone to jealousy and gets upset when June doesn't react to his homemade gift correctly or might have feelings for the new, young Elector. June secretly misses her rich life and is actually rather arrogant sometimes, thinking she can fight of sicknesses without medicine. She clings too much to her past and lets her logic temporarily be clouded when she starts to crush on someone.

Day's fifteen, but he's been on the run his whole life and he  is  a prodigy. He could fight, but he doesn't hurt people when he's doing his jobs and he never learned how. He's the most wanted criminal because he represents the lower class and the Republic can't stop him. He's not dangerous, he's just famous to the people. He's like, well, a legend, because he's just a boy. He's just a boy who the Republic can't stop and who the people see as a hero because he's one of them, which makes him the most wanted criminal- stop him, and you stop the hope of the people ever rebelling and having a better life. And okay, I guess it is a bit unrealistic, but if you've spent years running from the law and were already pretty athletic, you'd be that agile, too. Besides, he does mess up sometimes. Most of what he does is just practiced skill and the urgent need to get away.

In the first book, I'll give you that. They become more complex in the second one though. But June is actually a lot more analytical than Day is. And they do have complexities, they just aren't elaborated on which I appreciate because then it'd become too angsty. In the first book nothing really happened yet so you couldn't see any of these things unfold, but in the second one it becomes clearer. They both become conflicted and confused about what is right, about the possibility of betraying the other and living lives that are less complicated for them. Day's flaw, is in fact, being too trusting of June even though he doesn't have much reason to think that way and it's pointed out by other characters who give him grief for not liking Tess instead. Meanwhile, June is more analytical but she's also falling in love with the new Elector, who she's meant to help kill to help the Patriots, which she's only doing because they helped Day and she doesn't want to leave him even though she doesn't think what's happening is right.