Pop Culture: Home Alone By Marie Lu And Scorpion

June and Day quickly become close and begin to trust each other, but June doesn’t realize that she has actually met the infamous Day until she sees him look for comfort in a pendant that had been lost while he was in the hospital trying to steal medicine for his family. June being the Republic’s most prized prodigy, she connected the dots and quickly discovered that this stranger was Day, the criminal,but didn’t let him or Tess know. This is the first time in the book where June is confused as to why things aren’t as they seem or as she thought. She presumed that Day would be a bloodthirsty, violent, and intimidating person, but in reality he is loving, caring, beautiful, and passionate.

In the beginning of their journey, June and Day are both in pursuit of something: June wants revenge for her brother’s death and Day needs medicine to help cure his younger brother, Eden, from the

In “The Popular Crowd” written by Jake Halpern, the main point Halpern makes is people are becoming lonelier as time and technology develop. Many people may even be unaware of the loneliness they have, and therefore it can cause a lot of different emotions. As time and technology develop, Americans have become more and more prone get caught up in a celebrity’s life, and a unique way of dealing with loneliness is forming a para-social relationship (Halpern 225).

June has always been smart and analytical since the day she was born. Being a fifteen-year-old prodigy, she is gifted in her ability to create, plan, and develop different situations and that proves true throughout the story. Following the death of her brother Metias, June has her sights set on figuring out what happened to her brother. As June and the military join forces to investigate her brother’s death and incarcerate Day, she discovers the truth behind the midst of it all. Now knowing that the Republic set up her parent’s death and Thomas, a military soldier, killed June's brother she now joins forces with Day to fight the resistance and take down the Republic.

Day completes all of these stunts to annoy and anger the Republic. He gets hurt sometimes, like his three story fall out of the hospital, but always springs right back life. Day is a caring person because of his actions towards his family and dearest friends. In the book on page 6, Day shows that he cares for his family. “I dig through the little pile of goodies inside the bundle, then

The main characters, Day and June have no reason to cross paths, until the day June's brother, Metias, is killed. Day becomes the most suspected killer. While Day is trying to make sure his family survives, June wants to kill whoever ended her brother,Metias's, death. As the story unravels its dizzying twist and turns, the two realize the reason they came together in the first place.

Is that success? What or who defines success? Different people have different interpretations of what success means to them.

“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?”Maria Lu p. 230. This quote shows the ways that Day has grown because of his experience while he was with June. At First , he felt anger while he was June because she betrayed him. However, after making an effort to empathize with her he comes to understand why she treated him the way she did. He also begins to see what he has common with the girl he believes is his enemy. Near the end of the book June finally understand why Day means so much to her and how she can’t let him go, he reminds her of her brother.

There are tons of people in our world today who have become very successful and these people find success in different ways. Some people work hard their whole life to achieve success and others just seem to be born talented in

The meaning of "success" has numerous interpretations, whether it is your own or society's definition. Within Outliers author Malcolm Gladwell explains that being successful has nothing to do with what kind of person you are, so whether you are intelligent and hardworking or lazy and aloof, it depends on your circumstances growing up. Whether your parents happen to be immigrants, you are one of the smartest men in the country or you make a habit of practicing an activity for a certain amount of hours a day, your own personal success, according to Gladwell is defined by the conditions you grew up in; the idea of being successful varies from culture to culture, therefore, there is no definite meaning of success other than one's interpretation.

By definition, success is a person or thing that achieves desired aims or attains prosperity. How an individual reaches the point of success is “not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky- but all critical to making them who they are” (285). Throughout the book, Outliers by Malcom Gladwell, the pieces of the secret to success are put together. Three parts of success include pure luck, the amount of time and effort put into working to achieve your goal and where you come from.

Before success, there is always a process in which you first start with. Many people start after acknowledging a moment in their life that motivates them to do more. Many of these successful people come from a variety of unique backgrounds and a lot of them from disadvantaged backgrounds, such as poverty, a single-parents’ household, or even abusive parents. These causes, however do more than inspire themselves, but others who see their success story. This results in a way where it gives people a change of mindset to prove those people wrong and move on from that disadvantaged background. Another thing that can come from this is the support of others and being able to create new and healthy relationships with others who would help lead them to success. I see

Even though “Day did not fail his Trial,” the government chose to send him to a lab to perform an experiment with his body because Day possesses a miraculous talent (pg.157, Lu). Due to their greed for power, they chose to deceive the magnificent individual to gain benefits. Day, however, develops an internal conflict as he cannot forget the horrendous memories from the experiment lab. Also, June is the only character who discovers that Day did not fail his test, which confuses her as she does not comprehend the government’s decision. Eventually, these internal conflicts are externalized by the two characters when they choose to rebel in order to find the truth.

There are many different understandings of what success is. Some relate success to money, others relate success to happiness, but it all depends on the type of person.

Personal success is defined by how content and enjoyable your life is. That is not to say that challenges and disappointments aren’t included in this. A rich, eventful and challenging life doing what you enjoy and positively affecting others seems to me to be just about right. Find a job you love and you’ll never work another day in your life. I know I won’t. In my