Legend

Authors Note: In this piece of writing I will be analyzing how trusting people isn't always your best option in the book Legend written by Mary Lu .

It is 10:35 PM and June is in bed sleeping when she gets a phone call which is very rare for her to get one that late at night. She got out of bed and picked up the phone. The lady that was calling June said "Get down to the hospital now your  brother is dead." June was in shock and didn't know what to do. She grabbed her coat and rode her bike to the city hospital. Once she got there they told her that the person who killed her brother was Day. The most wanted criminal in the country. June told herself that she would find Day and bring him to jail. But that was until she met him.

It was a cold and breezy day in the poor sector of Los Angeles and June is on a mission to find Day. As she is walking around she stumbles upon an Skitz fight which is like a street brawl that people bet money on. June watches the first match and sees a talk and broad shouldered girl hurt another girl badly. As the gamblers look to choose a next person to fight they pick out a very skinny and out of shape girl. Instead of letting the little girl get hurt June stepped in and fought for her. June ended up winning the fight but the girl known as Cassandra cheated and used a knife. After the match a teenage boy and the skinny girl came and thanked June for stepping in to help. While they are talking the boy noticed the wound that June had and asked if he could look at it. Once he saw how bad it was he ended up taking the girl in for the nite. Once they started June introduced herself and so did the boy. He said his name was Day.

Although June knew it was him she didn't feel any hatred for him even though June thought he killed her brother. June never mentioned anything about her family because she didn't want Day to find out about who she really is. That night June stayed up thinking about everything that is happening. In the book she says "If Day really killed my brother there has to be a good reason why." When June woke up the next morning she came to her senses and told herself that she had to do the right thing. She called up the police and told them that she found Day.

Once Day was in jail June had a (special) talk with him. They talked about who June really was and who her brother was. After a emotional talk Day said "I couldn't of killed your brother. I needed some medication for my dying younger brother and your brother was on guard. I threw a knife at him and it him him in the shoulder. I just should've been i minor wound." June took that conversation very personally because she loved her brother a lot. Once she got back to her apartment she pulled up the crime scene on her laptop. She studied every picture and description that was on there. The two main things that stuck out to June were this. She saw a little pool of blood and a cut in her brothers shirt right by the shoulder but there was the main wound right by the heart, and there was some kind of black oil on the knife. The same oil here brothers best friend and June's caretaker Thomas had on his hands earlier that nite. After all June never liked Thomas.

As a result of this study June went straight to the police and showed them this and told them her description. The police didn't believe June so instead of going home and sulking she went straight to the prison and demanded to talk to June. Once she was in his jail cell all she told him was "I'm going to get you out of here. You don't belong here."

In the end June broke out Day out of jail with the help of her friends. Everyone trusted everyone in this story except for June and look who ended up being right. Thomos never got punished for what he did because June ran away with Day and Day's friend that June helped earlier in the story. And that is why I think trusting everyone isn't always the best option in this story.