Summary Of Four: A Divergent Collection By Veronica Roth

Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Among the Hidden, Among the Hidden’s 1st book revolves around survival, love, and friendship. As a reader, I felt that the plot was unexpected.

Out Of The Dust Book Essay Out Of The Dust is written by Karen Hesse . It's about a 13 year old girl who lives near Joyce City Oklahoma near the Panhandle, during the great depression in the 1930’s. Billie Jo and her parents struggle but then something made her appreciate family and life more when something tragic happens. Billie Jo is very passionate about playing the piano.

The Red Book by Barbara Lehman is a wordless book which takes place in an urban snowy city. This book centers around a young boy and a young girl who are at different locations and long to meet each other. The young girl, one of the main characters, walked down the street on a snowy day and found a red book sticking out in the snow. The girl took the book with her to school when she began to look at it during class. The pictures illustrated views of an island, along with a young boy on the island, who happened to be the other main character.

¨There was a law against luke. Not him personally everyone like him, kids who were born after their parents already had two babies (pg 6)¨. Would you like a law against you? Among the hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix clearly shows that dictatorship is horrible. In this novel Luke is not allowed to leave the house or be seen. Luke leaves the house in cover and meets a girl the same as him she can't go anywhere so she tries to convince luke to rebel to be like regular people with her but he is to nervous. Luke shows the character traits of brave, jealousy and adventurous as he hides in the shadows.

Imagine having to hide from everything everyday, that's Luke’s everyday life, but thats until he meets another like him. In the novel Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix there is a law against third children because of the “food shortages” couples are supposed to have only two children. Luke lives as a farmer in a lush forest, but that forest has to come down for more homes. Luke suspects a third child lives in the house next to his, so he goes to investigate. There he meets Jen, a Baron who is a rich person who works or someone in the family works for the government, and she has a plan to give freedom to third children.

Montag continues walking through the morning sun. Nervously, he tries to recite pages from books he remembered before, his memory is dull. It is blocked by the loud ringings of bombs still exploding in his ears. Granger takes a look at Montag.

In the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand a passionate young man named Louie Zamperini has his life turned around by putting his efforts into track where he becomes an Olympic level athlete, but as WW2 breaks out he then enlists in the military later leaving, but only to be drafted again. After crash landing he ends up being captured by the japanese where he is tortured, and picked on by the prison commander but stays “Unbroken”. Louie is affected greatly from different cultures and ethnicities, as in this time period WW2 broke out, people who were rich were relatively untouched by the draft. WW2 in itself was the biggest clash of ethnicities, cultures, and started over anger towards other cultures.

“One choice decides your friends. One choice defines your beliefs. One choice determines your loyalties-forever. One choice transforms you,” (Roth, back cover) What do you choose? Well, for Beatrice, the main character in Divergent, it is not an easy choice. Set in a futuristic Chicago, Beatrice is faced with an internal conflict; what faction should she choose? She and her brother, Caleb have a hard time deciding, but Beatrice chooses Dauntless despite what her father wants her to choose. In Dauntless she starts the initiation process that is full of physical and mental training that includes fights and simulations. Along the way she finds and loses friends and enemies. Divergent by Veronica Roth is a thrilling book due to the intense conflict/

Throughout the novel Four I notice that Four and I have many connections. Four and I have had a few connections like having to make a difficult decision, and living an active lifestyle. Many times during the novel Four, Four, has a difficult decision to make. By far one of the most difficult decisions the characters in the novel make is choosing their factions. Choosing a faction involves having to decide what career path to follow for the rest of the individual’s life.

Billy Pilgrim is the person that the book is written around. We follow him, perhaps not in a straight order, from his youth joining the military to his abduction on the alien planet of Tralmalfadore, to his older age at his 1960s home in Illum. It is his experiences and journeys that we follow, and his actions we read about. However, Billy had a specific lack of character for a main one. He is not heroic, he has very little personality traits, let alone an immersive and complex character. Most of the story is written around his experiences that seem more like symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from his World War Two days, combined with hallucinations after a brain injury in a near-fatal plane

In Jeffrey Toobin’s novel, The Nine, he promises in his subtitle to delve “Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.” And throughout his 340 page novel, Toobin accurately accomplishes this promise. To Toobin, the secret world of the Supreme Court focuses around the areas of the Court that are not often seen by the public eye, the information that often goes unnoticed or overlooked. To accomplish this goal of expanding the common man’s knowledge of the Supreme Court, Toobin not only narrates in detail the proceedings and cases of the court, but he also expands upon the complexities of the court as he describes the major themes, relationships, and intertwined connections that occur throughout the history of the Supreme Court. Furthermore, many of these major themes and relationships focus around main ideas and specific aspects of the court. In order to further illustrate the Supreme Court’s relationship and complexities, Jeffrey Toobin details the way the Court is shaped by the outside factors, the evolution of values, recurrent cases and constitutional requirements, and even misconceptions.

The Lonely, Good Company of Books by Richard Rodriguez is an excerpt from HUNGER OF MEMORY: THE EDUCATION OF RICHARD RODRIGUEZ by Richard Rodriguez. The Lonely, Good Company of Books was published in 1982. Rodriguez is a Hispanic from San Francisco, California. He struggled with learning to read in English even though both of his parents spoke English and Spanish. Throughout the whole excerpt, Rodriguez talks about his struggles and his efforts in reading books that were tough. He criticizes the school system in the way that it does not help students with reading.

Have you ever wondered how life would be like if society was divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue ? What if you were different and did not belong in any of the given factions? Then you are a lot like Tris. Tris Prior is the main character in the dystopian novel Divergent, by Veronica Roth. She lives in a world where she must hide her true uniqueness as a Divergent individual, otherwise she puts her life at risk. Tris's aptitude test result was inconclusive, she has the ability to manipulate simulations and throughout the book she shows characteristics from different factions which concludes that she is Divergent. Divergence is to be special in the sense that you

Although the ultimate truth from God never changes, people’s rules and thought change. For this reason, as people change their standard and laws away from God’s truth, they face difficulties. To get through difficulties, people tried to find better way from their thinking. Even though people know that trading the truth with lies bring only destruction, they reject the truth. Furthermore, they say that the truth is the one brings destruction to the world. Because of their wrong focus to solve the problem, they get into deeper problem. The book of Schaeffer, “Escape from Reason” and other book of Wiker, “10 Books That Screwed up the World and 5 Others That Didn’t Help”

In FOUR, the conflict is exhibited within the main character. Tobias chooses the Dauntless faction, opposite from the Agnegation faction; himself, being in pain from abuse and death there. Now as an initiate