Love And Revenge In Moira Young's Blood Red Road

Blood Red Road, by Moira Young, is a thrilling book filled with action, love, and revenge. In the book, Saba, the protagonist is searching for her twin brother who was taken by the Tonton. The Tonton are a group of cloaked horsemen who do the bidding for The King. While on her hunt Saba is taken by Miz Pinch and forced to fight in cage battles against other enslaved teens. Saba’s capture leads her to meet Jack and the Freehawks, who will later help her in her quest to find her brother. When Lugh is taken it sets the whole book into motion. Saba realizes that she must change from a small farm girl into a fierce warrior in order to repair her family. Upon realizing her potential, she is thrown into a world of chaos where she must rely on others
This point is the love of a stranger. While in the compound Saba meets a boy named Jack and falls deeply in love with him or so says her heartstone. The heartstone is a pink stone that heats up when she gets near the thing she most desires and that happens to be Jack. She tries to deny it and say Lugh is who she truly desires, but her heart knows better as she slowly falls for the boy with silver gray eyes. Later, Saba meets the leader of the Freehawks who explains that one of their members was captured and that she would like Saba’s help making a plan to free, not only their member, but everyone. The plan is for Saba to lose 3 fights which will send her to the gauntlet run giving the Freehawks the time to dig tunnels in each of the two cellblocks that will lead everyone to their freedom. However, when everyone is out and the place is about to blowup Saba realizes one person was missing. She states “I’m lookin fer one person but I cain’t see him nowhere. My heart leaps in my throat. The Cooler. I cain’t leave him there. I need the keys! Ruby runs over an tosses ‘em at us. I catch ‘em one-handed an start to go. I’m running towards the burnin cellblock” (212). Again, Young uses sacrifice to show the love that Saba feels towards this boy. She is willing to risk injury to save him just like she did for Lugh. By using the same analogy for Jack, as she did Lugh, it shows that Saba has a deep feeling for Jack and that she is willing to give her life to save him. When she reaches the cellblock the smoke is so thick she must close her eyes and pray that the layout she memorized is the same in the male’s cellblock. When she finds the trapdoor leading to the cooler she hears Jack pounding against the metal door, “I touch the handle of the trapdoor and pull it up, I snatch my hand away, cursin. The metals hot. I reach down into the darkness. His hand shoots up,