Insurgent

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This is a story about survival. Insurgent is a fictional story written by Veronica Roth and is the second instalment in the Divergent series. The story is written in first person perspective of Trish. The story takes place in a destroyed future, where Chicago is a wasteland. People lived in fear that whatever was outside of the city walls would kill them. The two main protagonists, Trish and Tobias wanted to get revenge on the Erudite for killing Trish’s parents, who were the leaders of the city.

After surviving the horrors of the day, the Erudite intelligent faction controlled the Dauntless to invade the Abnegation selfless compound and kill many of its members (including Trish’s parents). Trish and Tobias, the main characters, …show more content…

Four's character looked at in depth gave me more of a perspective on him and the actions he makes throughout book. Because we see Four through the eyes of Tris, it means we see her version of him. Although in the final book in the trilogy we will be seeing Four's point of view, which I do think twisted his choices a little because of her mindset in what she was suffering. In Insurgent we discover more about what it means to be Divergent and find out that more and more of the characters tested Divergent and managed to hide it. I thought this was interesting because it draws a comparison between the characters that manage to hide their differences and those who don't, like Tris, who struggled in both books to hide her differences with others and continues to hide it to many of the people she interacts with.Safety, unfortunately, is difficult to find. Though Tris and Four are part of Dauntless, they are known to be Divergents people who exhibit traits from more than one faction. This makes them walking targets because Erudite would want …show more content…

The book starts out with Tris, Tobias and some of her friends on a train leaving the city after they had just stopped the Erudites attack simulation. This happened directly after the events of the first book Divergent in a futuristic Chicago. They were not sure what they would do so they decided to go to Amity, a faction that is outside of the city gates. After they got on the train they found some factionless on the train who took them to their safe house. When they got their they met Tobias’s Mother and learned that the factionless were quite powerful now and that they had a large amount of Divergent living there. After that they leave to go to Candor headquarters. There they are put under truth serum to prove that they were not helping the Erudite. They prove that they are innocent but Tris has to tell everyone that she killed her friend will when he was under simulation. She felt very bad about this and the quilt had been killing her. This then hurt her relationships with Tobias and Christina. She later goes to spy on erudite and is ambushed. The Erudite and Dauntless traitors knocked them out and shot them with dart like things that inserted serum in some of them. She doesn’t die and is able to stab one of their leaders, Eric. After this chaos breaks out and her allies come to her rescue. After that the leader of Candor and a leader of Erudite agreed to have a meeting to talk things over. Some bodyguards came with Candors

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