...Veronica Roth had the right idea when writing her book series Divergent. The faction system, specifically caught my attention. In modern society, there are many issues with the American education system and the faction system could be the way to fix it. Americans face difficulties in the American education system: from students getting suspended for plagiarizing to students getting suspended for being late to class. The only way to fix this problem is to separate students into groups based on their willingness to participate in school. In the story, there are many people who do not fit into just one faction and in America, there can not be a straight separation of groups or it would be considered segregation. Therefore, the plan is to create a variety of groups for students to be taught in. There is always room for...
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...Veronica Roth wrote the hit trilogy which included the books, Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant. The novels gave a deeper understanding to how society can be pressuring to younger people. Her novels portray how society feels like to many young adults and how pressuring the guidelines can be. Veronica Roth created the hit book series Divergent, innovated the way people thought about society's guidelines,and inspired many others to be “outside the lines”. Roth created the hit book series Divergent (Source 1). The novels were marketed towards teens and young adults, based on the topic of society’s guidelines. In the novel, the main character Tris Prior had to make an important choice at 16. This portrays how many teens and young adults feel...
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...In Balaka Basu’s, The Pleasure of Being Sorted in Veronica Roth’s Divergent, Basu states, “Whatever else they may do, all heroes of young adult fiction- and by extension, their readers- are eventually asked to consider the two great questions of adolescence; ‘Who am I now? And who do I want to be when I grow up?’ As they do so, they inevitably embark upon a quest for identity, an apparently innocuous pursuit that lies at the very core of the genre.” (The Pleasure 19) In each of the three books, the reader can see individual or groups of young adults having to unite to achieve a certain goal. In class Professor Walker discussed how rebellious many young adults become as they reach their mid-teens and twenties. Becoming rebellious as a young adult is often seen by our parents as a reckless, impulsive eruption of emotions from within that allow rash decisions to be made. However, in each of the young adult, dystopian novels being reviewed, the main characters are considered rebellious by the law makers and rulers even though they are pushing for change in their unjust society. This essay will discuss three dystopian young adult novels, Divergent, The Hunger Games and Unwind and how each of them reflects on possible futures for humanity and the way young people are called to respond to the changes in the worlds they live in. Before getting started with the novels themselves, getting a brief overview of dystopian societies in Young Adult fiction is necessary. In, Contemporary Dystopian...
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...question is no long applicable or even necessary? Dystopian novels remove this illusion of choice. In each of the novels I will address, all teenagers attend or participate in a ceremony whereby they transition from young adult to adult. The first series I will address is Scott Westerfield’s Uglies series, where youth undergo plastic surgery as their rite of passage. Maturation and growing up require endure body modifications to create same-ness and the perfectly pretty white race. Second, I will analyze Ally Condie’s Matched series, where social order to determined by sorters who decide vocation and spouses. All teenagers attend a ceremony where a person’s perfect match is determined by a computer program. Lastly, I will use Veronica Roth’s Divergent series to explore how the world is constructed by personality type. Youth choose to participate in factions that are determined by a psychological examination that detects a youth’s instinctual predilections when facing their fears. As readers begin to figure out the rules to this new society, they are challenged to make comparisons to their own world. We are forced to wonder whether or not, as educators, we reinforce stereotypical constructs of adolescence despite our interaction with seemingly critical texts. In the last few years, there has been a tremendous increase in the number of dystopian novels marketed to young adults. The story always begins in media res, where some kind of travesty, disease, war, or alien invasion...
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