SETTING
Throughout the whole book, all major events take place in a futuristic, dystopian Chicago. It takes place many years in the future, all though not specified, Tris believes it is around the year 2250, and the whole world has changed. The whole city is divided into five different factions, the Abnegation, Erudite, Dauntless, Amity, and the Candor. There is also another section for the factionless but they are considered scum and not a part of society. Beatrice, “Tris”, the main character in the story lives most of her life in the Abnegation faction, located on the far outskirts of the city. After she chooses to be a Dauntless at her 16th ceremony, she moves to the other side of the city, where their underground faction is located. Towards the end of the story, a lot of drama unfolds in the Abnegation faction where the government is located, since Tris is saving the town and trying to destroy them.
PLOT
The first major event in the book would be the amplitude test held at school. It’s a virtual reality where you face several challenges and choose solutions to solve it. Your reactions and solutions are measured to tell you which faction is best for you. This is important because she discovers that she is divergent, the test results show that she is Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite. This is extremely dangerous and the lady giving her test, Tori, tells her to go home and decide while telling no one about her divergence or she could get killed. The next big event is the Choosing Ceremony where every sixteen year old gets to choose which faction they want. Tris has a hard time deciding between being a Dauntless or Abnegation but quickly spills her blood into the Dauntless bowl, pledging to them. Beatrice’s name change to Tri...
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...ow hard she tries, but its okay because she loves who she is and has amazing family and friends who support her. The quotes “I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave,”(Pg66) really shows her self-awareness and her will to keep going through it all.
PERSONAL RELEVANCE
I personally loved this book and have read the other two sequels. It’s a mysterious book that holds my attention very well. The theme fits so well in with high school life since high school is all about self-discovery, acceptance, and finding where you fit in and whom you belong with. I can relate with the book well since I believe I am like Tris in some ways. I know that no matter how hard I try I will never fully fit in with everyone much like Tris because I am friends with everyone. My personality is a mixture of everything, not just one defining characteristic.
This book has great balances of love interests, actions, and internal conflict with characters. It has an interesting story so far with new pieces coming up every few chapters that are very important. Like Al attacking Tris, Eric talking about Divergents and how the rebels must be eliminated. Tris and Four are developing feelings for each other, which I find weird because he is basically her teacher. They are only two years apart, so the relationship is not that awkward. In this journal I will be predicting, evaluating, and questioning.
The book had a few characters that I liked, but a lot of characters that I disliked. For example Yasmine was a character that I disliked. I didn’t like her because she brought pain to Paige’s life. Yasmine and Paige were best friends for months in Sixth grade. They were constantly doing fun activities together, like having sleepovers or planning each other’s birthday parties, but all that was ruined by a mistake Yasmine made. Paige and Yasmine were at a school dance, when
The story follows three girls- Jeanette, the oldest in the pack, Claudette, the narrator and middle child, and the youngest, Mirabella- as they go through the various stages of becoming civilized people. Each girl is an example of the different reactions to being placed in an unfamiliar environment and retrained. Jeanette adapts quickly, becoming the first in the pack to assimilate to the new way of life. She accepts her education and rejects her previous life with few relapses. Claudette understands the education being presented to her but resists adapting fully, her hatred turning into apathy as she quietly accepts her fate. Mirabella either does not comprehend her education, or fully ignores it, as she continually breaks the rules and boundaries set around her, eventually resulting in her removal from the school.
...he shows us her character, not by how she gives herself respect, but by the continued respect that she gives to others: even her tormenters. Her secret shame was kept inside, and it was an impossible burden to bear. She was brave.
My overall opinion of this book is good I really liked it and recommend it to anyone. It is a good book to read and it keep you interested throughout the whole book.
Imagine having your personality given to you the minute that you are born. Factions; a way to separate people into groups by an outcome of a test. In this Utopia, your faith and future is already determined. Where perfection is ideal. Divergent by Veronica Roth is an exciting science fiction and thriller with a quickly moving plot that builds an exciting tone, and a point of view that is told through Tris in a unique way since she is like no one else in the story.
The novel traces the historical lives of Victoria Woodhull, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Anthony Comstock as well as that of the fictional Freydeh Levin, mainly during the years of 1868 to 1874. The action is set in and around New York City. Also prime characters in this epic are the first women's movement and the post civil war re-constructionist gilded age, as they and their social ramifications intertwine with and impact the lives of the human characters.
The book’s main characters are Rayford Steele, Chloe Steele, Buck Williams, and Bruce Barnes. Rayford Steele is a PAN-continental airline pilot. Rayford lost is wife and son in the disappearance (the rapture). Rayford was on his way to Israel when the disappearance took place. When he was on the plane he met Buck Williams, a newspaper journalist. They became fast friends. Chloe Steele, Rayford ‘s daughter, is a collage student at Stanford University. She has moved back home to be closer to her father in their time of need. Chloe meets a journalist, named Cameron (Buck) Williams. They are currently going out and are eventually getting married. Buck Williams works for the New York Global Weekly, a newspaper, as their senior writer. At home in Rayford’s wife’s church, New Life Community Church, they search for the reasons why their families were gone and not them. They turned to Bruce Barnes, a minister at New Life Community Church, for the answers. Bruce has told them that Jesus has came and took his people and that there will be an anti-Christ that will try to rule the world.
never be afraid to be who you are is truly inspiring and because she practices what she preaches
Overall I think this is a great book. I would recommend this book to others but you would have to read the first two books before this one. I would recommend this book because it has a great story line and there is never a dull moment.
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...n high school and she was striving for big goals, working hard to achieve them, and overcoming countless obstacles. Even when her father stole that piggy bank money she did not give up. Her purpose in life helped transfer her into adulthood. Without this determination and sacrifice, seceding into a successful adult would have been much more challenging.
Me personally, I relate to this book and one character in particular. Lily Owens. Lily owens is a fourteen year old girl, living with her father after an incident occurred where she accidentally killed her mother when she was just a little girl. Ever since her mother died, so did apart of her dad, T Ray Owens. T-Ray portraits a angry and hurt man. Because of this, he treats Lily with no respect at all. Another reason
Set in a futuristic dystopia Chicago there is a society that is divided into five factions: Abnegation; selflessness, Amity; peaceful, Candor; honest, Dauntless; brave, and Erudite; knowledgeable. Each represents a different virtue of living one’s life. The children of this society have to decide whether they want to stay in their faction or switch to another, the choice is theirs. The young Beatrice “Tris” Prior makes a choice that surprises everyone including herself. After what seems to be the wrong choice, Tris and her fellow faction members have to go through a very competitive training in order to live with their new faction. They must go through intense psychological tests and extreme physical training that can either transform them or destroy them. If they fail to complete their training successfully they will be left frictionless and an outcast to society. While the Dauntless train, the Erudite devolve a life threatening plan that is carried out that night. They developed a serum that stops the brain’s thought process and all of the Dauntless become sleeper soldiers for they were injected with it. The serum does not work on Tris or Tobias “Four” Eaton because they are both Divergent. When they try to escape they are both caught and brought to Jeanine, the Erudite leader. She then sentences Tris to death and Tobias is sent to the control room to view the attack. Tris is locked inside a glass tank that fills with water, but moments later her mother saves her life. ...
Things Fall Apart concentrates on the lifetime of the hero of the novel, Okonkwo. As the novel creates Okonkwo coincidentally murders a man and he and his family are ousted from Umuofia. At the season of his outcast white missionaries touch base in Umuofia and attempt to change the town. At the point when Okonkwo comes back to his town he sees different changes that Umuofia has experienced during his outcast. Troubled with the changes, Okonkwo and different villagers meet up to drive the white missionaries out of their territory. Their endeavors go futile on the grounds that the missionaries send their messengers to end the meeting. One of the messenger is murdered by Okonkwo and due to this the villagers let other messengers escape. The