...One Choice The novel Divergent by Veronica Roth, is the first book in a trilogy that follows the life of 16-year-old Beatrice Prior. Beatrice lives in a future version of Chicago where society is spit into five factions. Each faction indicates a certain virtue: Candor (the honest), Erudite (the knowledgeable), Amity (the kind), Abnegation (the selfless), and Dauntless (the brave). At the age of 16, the children of all the factions take a test. This test tells them what faction they belong in, but there are the rare exceptions when the test doesn’t work. They call these people Divergent, and Beatrice Prior is Divergent. She has to choose whether to keep her safe life in Abnegation with her family, or to choose a new, exciting life in Dauntless. She only has one choice, and she choses Dauntless. Was this the best choice for Beatrice Prior? It is told that ever since Beatrice was little, she watched the Dauntless with awe. She loved how the Dauntless looked so free. At school every morning she would watch as the Dauntless would prove their “bravery” by jumping out of a moving train. At the choosing ceremony, Beatrice almost picks Abnegation. Her choice to become Dauntless is very sudden. At Dauntless headquarters, one of the faction leaders, Eric, is waiting for the initiates. Eric tells them they have to jump off the ledge, and it’s clear nobody wants to be first. Beatrice, without a word, steps up to the ledge, and she jumps, surprising everyone. At the bottom is a net, and...
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...devastating, but the way it is depicted in young adult books of today makes the topic quite stimulating and intriguing. For some odd reason, instead of straying from such stories, I become emotionally attached to them. Veronica Roth, through the Divergent series, did that same kind of magic to me. I do not know how it happened. It just HAPPENED. The Divergent series follows the story of Beatrice ‘Tris’ Prior as she struggles to make difficult choices about love, family, and sacrifice. The faction-based world she lives in turns out to be a lot different from what she has always known and she is determined to unravel the intricacies of life and fully embrace her Divergence. I may be alone in this, but Allegiant, the third and final book of the trilogy, is my favorite of the pack. It is filled with a lot of thrilling twists, unexpected revelations, and meaningful lessons that got me holding my breath up to the last page. In the first two books, I have seen a lot of Tris’ hasty and self-destructive decisions which caused her so much trouble (Like when she took it upon herself to lie to Tobias and go to the Erudite headquarters which almost led to her own execution). However, I believe that the outcome of these decisions, no matter how shattering and appalling they were, have helped her to truly develop into the mature individual that she has become in Allegiant. If I came to like her in Divergent and Insurgent in spite of her impulsiveness, this closing of her story...
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...Worlds where the power of the few outweighs the lives of many and the need for order can result in a death count. These are the types of worlds that authors Susanne Collins and Veronica Roth have created in their respective trilogies. The Hunger Games and Divergent paint separate pictures that both express the story of young heroines stepping up to the threshold of rebellion. Each heroine faces their challenges all whilst trying to grow and thrive in a world that wants them dead. However, within the pages of these books, when the blood and bone has been stripped away, the reader can trace the threads of similarities. These similarities exist between the two novels and also between their dystopian settings and the real world. Katniss Everdeen and Beatrice Prior are not only two rebels fighting for a cause, but are also two young women who face everyday hardships beyond their respective wars. They have the ability to teach the reader far more about life than is seemingly possible; lessons that are relatable and useful to just about anyone, regardless of age. Knowing what one stands for and residing in that truth, understanding that what is broken can be mended, and believing that gender does not define one’s abilities are three of the most important messages aimed at young adults in The Hunger Games and Divergent trilogies. Katniss Everdeen and Beatrice (Tris) Prior are both sixteen year old girls who have lost themselves within their respective worlds. At one point in both series...
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...In the series of the Hunger Games and Divergent the two main characters Katniss and Tris are two different kind of girls in these novel unlike other girls in other novels because they are the hero’s in the novel and in other novels guys are usually the hero or the tuff person and the girls are sweet and scared of most things but not these novels because these two girls have a lot of people that are against them and little bit people with them. Katniss from Hunger games is a girl that knows how to survive in the games and she’s not really a people person and at first she gets everyone to love her than after she gets everyone to hate her and she even hates herself throughout the novels. Tris from the Divergent series in also kind in the same...
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...help people and be nice to everyone? Amity does that. Ever feel the need for all of it or more than just one? that’s Divergent . In the book “Divergent” by Veronica Roth there is sets of people when the government divided picked what they thought was best to restore their government. This book contains romance in more ways than one and has a big adventure ahead for Tris. It is set at the Dauntless headquarters sometime in the future....
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...In the book Divergent by Veronica Roth, the author uses different elements of plot to create a story that, not only makes the reader think about the dystopian society and freedom of choice in which Beatrice Prior, the main character, lives. The society has a loss of individuality, by choosing between five different factions. The government is separated between the five factions to try to make the perfect society. The setting in Divergent takes place in futuristic Chicago, Illinois. In this place, everyone has a special job for the rest of their lives. Beatrice, the main character, is sixteen years old and has experienced what it is like to be selfless for the first sixteen years of her life. “Why doesn’t she reprimand me for staring at myself?”(2). Since day one, Beatrice was taught never to think of herself, but to think only of others. You are not even allowed to look at yourself in the mirror. The story begins when Beatrice takes her aptitude test and it comes back inconclusive. After the aptitude test on choosing day, Beatrice has to choose from five different factions; Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave) and Erudite (the intelligent). After the aptitude test Beatrice get three results, Abnegation, Erudite and Dauntless. This makes her “divergent” and she is warned to never share this with anyone for fear of her life. “Divergence is extremely dangerous”(23). During the choosing ceremony, Beatrice surprises...
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...Black Mass In “Divergent” political oppression is visible throughout the entire novel in many interesting ways that can be easily observed in fiction as well as reality. Besides fiction helps us explore areas that we do not yet understand completely by building further on the concept that is already understood. The biggest area explored in “Divergent” is oppression. Something seen throughout the whole world as well. So what is the putrid, vile thing that makes so many people fall into this slump of monotony and indifference? This plague and sickness is fear. Not the type of fear that acts like a natural alarm for harmful meaningless pain but the fear that has no significance. According to psychology today “Fear is a vital response to physical and emotional danger—if we didn't feel it, we couldn't protect ourselves from...
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...his/her choices! Write your OWN, brief, yet descriptive plot summary (overall or structure summary for certain nonfiction pieces). The main character Beatrice lives in a future Chicago in where people are divided into factions based upon their personalities. Abnegation, for the selfless, Amity, for the peaceful, Candor, for the honest, Dauntless, for the brave, and Erudite, for the intellectual. When it comes time for the choosing day, Beatrice discovers that she is Divergent, a very special case in where a person is no set faction. After surprising her family with the choice of dauntless, Beatrice is sent into the initiation protocol for the faction. Starting with jumping onto a moving train. From that moving train she then must jump off of that train onto a roof, then down into a pitch black hole. After that part they must go through three initiation trials which she goes through and is injected with this serum thing that the eurdites activate to take control of the dauntless, all except the divergents who are surprisingly revealed to us that four and tris’ (Beatrice’s dauntless name) mother are. Then all of the action starts to kick in. We have death all around us. To get to the final control room to stop this brainwashing experience tris loses her mother and father. But after all that is said and done she meets four again who she is in love with near the end of the book and hop on a train leading into the city, which leads to the sequel book. This is super brief and...
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...conduct. Ethical decisions made have causes and effects, consequences, framed in context of how a movie with different scripts can achieve its highest-priority themes and guarantee positive ratings. A 2012 film, The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross and 2014 film, Divergent, directed by Neil Burger presents two ideal films focusing on the ethical decisions made by the main characters. This essay aims at identifying the causes and effects of ethical decisions made by the main characters, the impacts of these decisions, how these decisions affect the society. The movie, Divergent, revolves around a society with five different factions: Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless, and the Erudite. Members of ultramodern dystopian Chicago join any of the five groups based on their fondness but are, at first, given a proposition by an aptitude test. The group that controls the government, Abnegation, has brought up Beatrice Prior, the main character. Andrew, Prior’s father, is one of the ruling council heading Abnegation. During the Choosing Ceremony, Prior chooses Dauntless whereas his brother chooses Erudite. Choosing the Dauntless signifies Beatrice’s ethical decision. Beatrice has always been fascinated by Dauntless and she makes an ethical decision by choosing her preferred...
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...Shakespeare and Marlowe Elizabeth strayed from being the traditional women figure, and became a brave and rebellious leader. Of course Elizabeth did not act this way for fun, she did it as she felt it was the necessary action to take. Today, females in books and movies have strayed further from traditional roles in order to lead successful lives. Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games trilogy faces the pressure of the capital and wishes to fight to make change. Hanna, from the 2011 film Hanna, is raised through the teaching of her father to become an assassin in order to avenge a murdered mother. Beatrice, in the Divergent trilogy works to hide her true identity of being divergent as she knows the consequences if her truth be revealed. Later, of course, she too becomes an agent for change. Each character, then, coming from different backgrounds and lifestyles, must break away from tradition and take action to bring balance to their worlds and take revenge on those who have harmed them. All three women must learn the actions, attitudes and ways of what is known as the avenging angel. They must rise out of their traditional female roles in order to become great fighters so that they can continue to live their lives. The traditional view and role of women was to be considered second to the male head of household and do no more than look after domestic and family affairs. They were a man’s servant, doing all the chores, cooking all the meals, and caring for the...
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...Dystopia (DRAFT) Christopher Lewis Chapman University May 21, 2014 Vadeboncoeur (2005) criticizes the age-old question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and explains that youth are always defined as being in the process of becoming an adult. But what happens if this 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...
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...Veronica Roth writes a dystopian series called Divergent that explores the life of a sixteen year-old girl named Beatrice “Tris” Prior. In the story everyone belongs to one of five factions; Abnegation, Amnity, Candor, Dauntless and Erudite. At sixteen years of age each adolescent is expected to take a test that determines where he or she belongs. The initiation ceremony held each year are where the adolescents declare which faction they are more like and belong to. In the beginning of the story, the readers learn that the main character Tris is in fact a divergent, someone that belongs to more than one faction. The story follows Tris’s choices and actions throughout the course of the series. This series is filled with ethical dilemmas and how Tris deals with them. Readers follow Tris through her experiences as the faction system becomes corrupted and controlled by Erudite, the faction that focuses on intelligence. Jeanine, the faction leader of Erudite is obsessed with the idea of “divergent” and believes them to be dangerous. Because of Tris being...
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...dystopian fiction is not a new subgenre with its famous masterpieces such as 1984 by George Orwell or Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, it can be stated to be new in Young Adult Literature since House of Stairs by William Sleator in 1974 and The Giver by Lois Lowry in 1993 (article 1 and 5). However, the incredible success of The Hunger Games and Divergent as best sellers on bookshops and movie adaptations on theatres seems undeniable. Especially The Hunger Games has been on the best-seller list of the New York Times for 180 consecutive weeks (article 5) and the opening week of the motion picture adaptation had box office...
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...Divergent Veronica Roth Dedication To my mother, who gave me the moment when Beatrice realizes how strong her mother is and wonders how she missed it for so long Contents Dedication Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-One Chapter Twenty-Two Chapter Twenty-Three Chapter Twenty-Four Chapter Twenty-Five Chapter Twenty-Six Chapter Twenty-Seven Chapter Twenty-Eight Chapter Twenty-Nine Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirty-One Chapter Thirty-Two Chapter Thirty-Three Chapter Thirty-Four Chapter Thirty-Five Chapter Thirty-Six Chapter Thirty-Seven Chapter Thirty-Eight Chapter Thirty-Nine Excerpt from Insurgent Chapter One Chapter Two Acknowledgments About the Author Back Ad Praise for Divergent Books By Veronica Roth Credits Copyright About the Publisher CHAPTER ONE THERE IS ONE mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair. I sit on the stool and my mother stands behind me with the scissors, trimming. The strands fall on the floor in a dull, blond ring. When she finishes, she pulls my hair away from my face and twists it into a knot. I note how calm she looks and...
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