Ashley Schwieger Blog 3

I did not want this series to end and I never wanted to stop reading it. I really enjoyed the Legend series. I really like the style it was written in. The first person perspective was more unique than I have seen. I love the fact that the characters often think sarcastically about things they say or do. I’ve read lots of first person novels, but the style of this one was way more natural. Of course there’s a love triangle (or more like pentagon) but I’ve accepted that. In fact I actually liked it more in this series than others. I’m also seriously loving how bad ass all the girls are. I think it would be a lot of fun to teach this with 1984. There are a lot of similar themes about governmental control, propaganda and policing of citizens, as well as the huge divide between those in power, and those who are not. I also think it would be fun to do a bit of a rhetorical study of the propaganda and speech of certain characters, both in the Republic and in the Colonies. I think I would want to teach this to middle school students. It’s complex but approachable with realistic characters close to middle school and early high school age. I think this is something I would have loved to read when I was middle school.