Red Rising By Pierce Brown: Character Analysis

In the book, Red Rising (2014), the author Pierce Brown writes a science fiction novel that takes place years after Earth was destroyed in a massive war. The main character, Darrow, grew up in a mining colony, on Mars, and is a "Red." In the society of the Solar System, each person is given specific color, based on the class that the person is. Darrow's class, the Red class, is considered to be the lowest class in the Solar System, as the Red's jobs are to mine Helium-3, which is a valuable resource on Mars. Darrow, like many other Reds, is driven by the Laurel. The Laurel is a reward given to the family that mines the most Helium-3. Despite his life-risking efforts to gather more Helium, his clan doesn't win the Laurel. When Darrow loses the Laurel for his family, him and his wife Eo, to rebel …show more content…
After graduating from Pepperdine University, Brown worked for Disney and NBC for a short while before writing Red Rising in 2014. Red Rising was such a well-liked book, Brown wrote two sequels to the story, Golden Son (2015), and Morning Star (2016). Goodreads, a website that rates books, awarded him the Goodreads Best Science Fiction Novel for 2015 and 2016, as well as the Goodreads Best New Author in 2014. After his first successful trilogy, he published Iron Gold in 2018, which is the sequel trilogy to the Red Rising Trilogy …show more content…
Red Rising is a science fiction novel that explores what life could be like on other planets aside from Earth. I recommend Red Rising to people who liked the books The Hunger Games, Maze Runner, and The Martian as well as books about the future. Red Rising is novel that starts slowly at first, like many novels, but explores life on Mars, and how it is