

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.
