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The Red Queen Character Analysis
The world is divided by blood; the godlike silver, born to rule and the red, born to serve. The two realities are definitive but everything is not as it seems, there are secrets that lay somewhere between. Mare Barrow is one among the many poverty stricken Reds whom is growing up in the Stilts. She carries her weight in the family by stealing, just to get them by until she is sent off to the war front. She is not an apprentice like her best friend, Kilorn, or her little sister, Gisa, so unlike them she is not safe from the unforgiving war zone. Her other brothers, Shade, Tramy, and Bree are already on the fronts and they write occasionally. By a game of luck, Mare is swept into the world of the silver after a fateful encounter with a man from the tavern she …show more content…
She is taken to Summerton where she will serve the noble silvers. There she finds more than she could ever imagine. She discovers not only secrets lying within the divide of reds and silvers, but within herself. With her newfound abilities, and the help of a few friends, the red dawn will rise.

“Red Queen” by Victoria Aveyard is a fiction sort of twisted fairytale. The main character, Mare Barrow, is stuck between two completely different realities. Mare is quick-witted and knows how to play her cards to get what she wants. Throughout the book she is faced with a multitude of obstacles and challenges that she must overcome. She leans on a few others for help and protection, but she is taught a very severe lesson with consequences beyond belief. Mare is told at the start of her long journey to hide her heart and despite her efforts, she is deceived. However she is not the only one who’s worst nightmares become a painful reality, Prince Tiberias (AKA Cal), a

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