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A brilliant author by the name of Cassandra Clare once declared, “Only the very weak-mined refuse to be influenced by literature,” (GoodReads). Since the first book publication, the world around us has been undeniably and overwhelmingly impacted. Although the very nature of each influence may vary, the significance to the reading public cannot and will not be ignored. The content of my grandmother’s favorite book, Mutant Message Down Under, varies from my current favorite book, Divergent; but this does not discredit either works. As noted in Joseph R. Dominick’s book, entitled The Dynamics of Mass Communication, the content of books throughout the generations has altered—which effortlessly engenders waves of newfangled favorites.
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Veronica Roth published her bestselling novel, Divergent, on April 25, 2011. This action-packed book shares the futuristic story of a sixteen-year old girl named Tris Prior who is secretly rendered as Divergent. This simply means that, subsequent to Aptitude Testing, she qualifies to be in three factions, rather than the standard one. Eventually, she initiates into Dauntless, one of the six factions in her society, on Choosing Day. This particular faction focuses on bravery; while Abnegation (Beatrice’s original faction) practices selflessness, Candor emphasizes honesty, Erudite yearns over intelligence, and Amity relies on friendliness. Abnegation is chiefly responsible for the government of this city, which angers the Erudite faction because they believe Abnegation is destroying the equality. Erudite soon conquers the Dauntless faction by injecting the members with a serum that forces them to mindlessly attack and destroy Abnegation. As Divergents, Tris and her mentor Four overcome the serum and, ultimately, save the Abnegation faction. I read this book, as well as the rest of the series, when I was fifteen, but have not had time to re-read the novels. Personally, Divergent sticks out to me because I’ve never read a book even the slightest bit similar to it. Roth takes a spin on what a futuristic world could look like and challenges the reader to place themselves in the shoes of characters such as Tris, Four, Tris’s brother Caleb, and others. This novel has impacted my life by forcing me to consider multiple forms of a futuristic utopia and the consequences of them. Each chapter makes me desire to consider what I would do if I was Tris Prior, which seems to be rare in the fictional books that I encounter in this generation. I greatly appreciate the deviation from traditional innovative worlds and the inclusion of seemingly

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