Tris Necessary 'And Divergent' By Veronica Roth

How would you deal with living in a community in isolation, feeling lost with those around you, and having your whole life changed with one drop of blood? FOUR by Veronica Roth displays all this with a story of a young man named Tobias Eaton. This book demonstrates the drama and strategy which keeps readers involved. From being placed in one environment from birth and choosing something precisely different, readers can see what Tobias had to go through. The main elements of this book are conflict, style, and mood.

The fact that prejudice prevents us from seeing the good that lies beyond a person’s appearance, religion or race is represented to a great extent in The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak. The novel is set in 1930s Germany during the times of rising anti-Semitism when Adolf Hitler, the leader of the ruling Nazi Party put his discriminatory ideologies into practice and began persecuting people of the Jewish race. This persecution is known as the Holocaust in which 17 million Jews were killed by the Nazi Party who described them as a shame upon Germany even though over 100,000 Jews fought for the country in WW1. The Book Thief is riddled with examples of racial prejudice whether it’s when a Jewish shopkeeper is beaten in the name of German patriotism or when the character of

Segregation had had many effects on the black nation, to the point that it started building up ones character, “See the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness towards white people”, King shows readers that segregation is even affecting little children, that it is starting to build up a young girls character and is contributing to the child developing hatred “bitterness” towards the white Americans. King makes readers imagine a black cloud settling in a young girls brain mentally, when instead she should have an image of a colorful blue sky with a rainbow, isn’t that suppose to be part of a 6 year-old’s imagination? King gives readers an image of destruction civil disobedience had created in the black community, especially in the young innocent little children.

The works of Charles Darwin can’t be ignored here. He said, “The survival of the fittest” meaning the strongest of them all will survive and the weaker ones would perish. His works were highly credited in that time. At the time, this became an excuse to justify the discrimination already being

In the movie, Remember The Titans,discrimination was dealt with the boys of the football team defending and banding together. In the Jane Elliott videos it taught us that discrimination is about having and holding onto power. In the What Would You Do? videos, it shows us the impact of how negative stereotypes can impact discrimination. Lastly, in the case of EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch, discrimination should not be accepted in any way since it is against the Civil Rights. In conclusion, it doesn’t matter if it is race or religion, discrimination has been a problem and is still a problem, and it is a problem that needs to

We saw prejudice and discrimination throughout the book. For example, when Lafayette’s was charged with a crime due to hi, been associated with who did it. When LaJoe lost her benefits from the state due to her on and off husband using her home address and when collecting unemployment benefits which LaJoe did not claim as income coming into the home. In both instances, the Rivers were treated as if they were liars and criminals. Because of Lafayette being from the inner city, there was this predetermine thought about any youth that lived in the inner city from the court system. LaJoe was treated with disrespect by the welfare office because of the prejudgment they had formed about people that lived in the inner city. Due to the location in which they stayed, the importance of healthy living condition was not a priority to the city. They were forced to live in the vicinity of garbage, broken sewer systems, dead animals, etc. Also, the children were forced to either stay in their apartments or play on the railroad tracks because the city had only a few areas for them to play. These areas had become run down and it was unsafe for kids to play in. It is unsure why the was such neglect for those areas of the inner city, but one could only think that it had to do with how this race has been treated for years.

In the divergent series written by Veronica Roth it tells a story of a young girl named Tris in this series Tris goes through a lot of events uncovering some of the mysteries a little at a time. The first book in the series is called divergent. In divergent Tris starts out as being an abnegation member. Abnegation is all about being selfless. Tris didn 't exactly like being abnegation but she didn’t mind it. In this book when you turn 18 you take certain test that go through mind control. In these tests they found out that Tris was divergent. Divergent in this book is an exactly excepted among the people.

Being constantly put down or verbally abuse can build up a person confidence over time leading them to improve, do a risk, or change the negativity to positivity for themselves or the people lives around them. The book The Help by Kathryn Stockett best demonstrates the theme of being segregated makes the individual gradually become stronger and bolder. The book demonstrates the theme because it shows how the main character Aibileen started to show confidence gradually throughout and willing to go out of her comfort zone to take the risk of writing the book The Help. She was tired of being treated unequally and to see other coloured folks suffer, which lead her to motivate herself and be bold of what she is doing for the benefits of coloured

Discrimination against a certain group of people has always been a prevalent part of our history. Whether it was with the women in Syria today, to the African Americans in America during the 60’s, or the Jews during World War Two. A very well known discrimination act was the genocide against the Jews by the Nazi’s during World War Two. The prejudice acts were so hateful that millions of peoples lives were ended. It truly shows how strong hate is and the effort needed by love to prevail over the discriminative acts that are done.

Oppression has been a problem in this country, dating all the way back to the Europeans traveling to the New World, and forcing themselves on the Native’s and famously the British oppression of the thirteen colonies. Oppression is still a serious problem today, with almost all minorities, such as women, African-Americans, and the LGBT community feeling it’s pressure. Although these groups have gained seen many changes in their freedom, they are still being oppressed. Oppression is a common theme throughout American Literature, weaving in and out of many that are seen as classic American novels and poetry. Some of these books include Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the poetry of Langston Hughes, Richard Wright’s Native Son and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon. The form of oppression that is evident throughout all these works, is racial oppression, and narrowing it down even further, the oppression of African Americans.

Picture this, innocent children and adults being discriminated against because of reasons beyond their control. These people are getting yelled at, getting called derogatory names, getting forced to do things beyond their will and they are not provided proper housing, medical treatment, and food. All of these people are innocent and have not committed any crimes. Innocent kids and adults are facing discrimination everywhere in the world. In the Holocaust memoir Night by Elie Wiesel and the Pearl Harbor memoir Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne and James Houston and the allegory, The Terrible Things by Eve Bunting characters get discriminated against because of religion, ethnicity, the group they belong to and by their outward appearance. Picture

Being discriminated against can make people feel less than a human being i saw this one comment on Youtube where a person said his uncle committed suicide. making someone kill themselves is like pulling the trigger yourself cause if they weren't dehumanizing the victim they probably would of never did it in the first place

In the history of The United States, there has always been a history of discrimination that has come from many different areas by many different people that have led to violent discrimination acts to members of our society (Miller, 2003). These violent acts have been based on members of society bias views of others race, sex, disabilities, sexual preferences, and religion (Greenhouse, 1993). The members of these groups that have been discriminated upon are minority members of our society that have had to fight for their rightful place as a member of the American Society, and still, fight prejudice today.

Discrimination is treating someone differently, often unfairly, because he/she is a part of a specific group, class or category of people. For instance, a girl named Wu Qing in China was discriminated against and could not find a job because how her body was a bit chubby and the scars in her face from an accident in her early childhood. Even though she was kind and used to be straight-A student, she had no friends. Now, she is looking for selling her kidney in order to pay the plastic surgery fee. Discrimination can change a person from innocent to evil is an important theme in the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley. Even though

Veronica Anne Roth is an American writer, a novelist and short story writer. She was born in New York City, U.S, and was raised in Barrington, Illinois on 19thAugust,1988. She is best known for writing The Divergent Trilogy of science-fiction and fantasy novels for young adults consisting of Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant. Divergent is the first book of trilogy written by Veronica Roth. It is a bestselling novel which earned Veronica Roth numerous awards including the Goodreads 2011 Choice Award as well as the title of best of 2012 in the category of young adult science and fantasy fiction. Divergent has been praised for its striking plotline, readability, originality, fast-paced plot, worldview and powerful message of discovering