Darrow allows Cassius to kill the Red, named Titus, at a public trial. Darrow negotiates with Mustang to win his castle back and reunite his House. Darrow discovers a carved Red like himself within House Mars. Darrow wars with House Minerva, led by a brilliant girl nicknamed Mustang. The students of House Mars dispute who will lead the group and divide into warring factions.
House Mars’s Proctor, Fitchner, orients his new students to the Institute, which places teenaged Golds in a simulated ground war on the terraformed surface of Mars. To win, students must conquer other Houses by enslaving classmates. In a one-on-one fight to the death called the Passage, Darrow kills Julian, the brother of his new friend Cassius. Darrow passes a difficult test for admission to the Institute, the training program for young Golds.Īmong twelve Houses at the Institute, House Mars chooses Darrow first in the Draft. A Violet named Mickey gives Darrow a reinforced skeleton, golden eyes and hair, and stronger muscles. Their leader, Dancer, tells Darrow he wants to transform him into a member of the Society’s ruling class, the Golds, so Darrow can ascend the ranks and foment a revolution from within.
Darrow buries Eo’s body in the forest and, for this act, is hanged as well.ĭarrow wakes in a shallow grave and is approached by agents of a liberation front called the Sons of Ares. This tragic event motivates Darrow’s actions for the remainder of the novel. After singing a forbidden song, Eo is hanged by order of ArchGovernor Nero au Augustus. His wife Eo argues that he should fight against their oppression. The novel’s narrator, sixteen-year-old Darrow, is an accomplished miner.
The Society, a harsh governing body, forces a caste called the Reds to mine helium-3 underneath the planet’s surface. Brown sets Red Rising on the planet Mars several hundred years in the future.
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