In our society we are lucky to have so many choices about how we live. We can be smart yet still respect others, we can be brave yet still sincere. In the second book, Insurgent, from the dystopian series Divergent, the people are not as lucky and do not have choices. Veronica Roth wrote this science fiction book showing a futuristic look at Chicago, in which people are placed into factions (groups) based on certain characteristics and an aptitude test that they are forced to take when they turn sixteen. The main character is Tris, who falls under the category of divergent, meaning that she belongs in more than one faction. People like her have to keep the secret of being divergent or else they would be in danger of being killed. As I …show more content…
Tobias’ mother comes into the picture about half way through the book, and we find out that she is the leader of the faction-less people. These are the people who did not pass the initiation of their faction or were kicked out. They team up with Tris and Tobias in a war with the Erudite. During this process, the real truth comes out. The Erudite leader has valuable information that is said would change the way they all live and look at life if people were to find out about it. The book ends here, and Allegiant, book #3 holds the answer to all of the questions aroused from Insurgent. One major theme in this book is that with choices come consequences. In Insurgent Tris has to deal with the consequences of some choices that she has made. For someone like her who has never had a choice in life before, she has a very difficult time dealing with this. One of the hardest things she has to face is the guilt of killing one of her best friends, who was also her best friend’s (Christina) boyfriend. She did not purposely kill him, but because the Erudite faction put all of the Dauntless under a simulation of killing the abnegation, the choice was either kill him (since he was under simulation and pretty much brain controlled) or let him kill her. Tris made the decision of killing Will, and in the entire book of Insurgent she has trouble dealing with this. Her mother and father were also
Divergence gives people the ability to control your mind control tests making it hard for people to be able to read you. And in this book the government doesn’t exactly like not having the power. So they were out to kill all divergent people.to stay alive at the day of choosing a different factions or your same faction Tris chose dauntless. The dauntless faction is basically the brave they also are the cities protection and law. In dauntless training you had to accomplish certain things in order to be a dauntless member.
This is one of the first paragraphs in the book. It really gives a clear message to what this story is really going to entail. For example, the grief Tris will have to accommodate to for killing her friend Will. How she and Tobias are now fugitives and must never stay in one place for too long. Lastly, how Tobias and her relationship forms and grows.
Tris is the main character and narrator of the story. She is a strong-willed sixteen year old who despises being seen as an incapable person. She is born into the Abnegation faction, but she eventually transfers into the Dauntless faction. During initiation, Tris learns she is not selfish and that there are people she would die for. She has to be cautious about what she does and hide the fact that she is divergent.
“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/
In 1984, when the children turn sixteen, they take a test to determine which Party they belong in. The test determines their intelligence, which tells the Inner Party where they best belong in a certain Party. In Divergent, when the children turn sixteen, they take a test which determines their future in which faction they will permanently stay in. After four or five imaginary situations, they are determined which of the five factions they belong in. Both novels make children take a test at sixteen, which determines their future based off their personality and intelligence,
The main character in the book Divergent is a girl named Beatrice. Beatrice is developed throughout the book by having to do things that push her out of her comfort zone. Beatrice was born in the faction of Abnegation, where everything is simple and alike. Abnegation values selflessness, but Beatrice doesn’t feel like she is selfless. She decides to change to the faction of Dauntless, who values courage. Beatrice has to do things like jump off trains, and fight people to show she is courageous. She decides to start going byTris, because Beatrice won’t fit in with the dauntless. When Beatrice makes the decision to be a dauntless she says “My fathers eyes burn into mine with a look of accusation’. This is because it was selfish of
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
This is no exception in the book Divergent. The society in Divergent split into five distinct factions known as Candor, Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity, and Erudite. From this information, one can infer the worldview depicted in this novel is that one choice defines who a person is forever. This worldview is seen all throughout the book, due to the author’s focus on choice. The characters are forced to choose which faction they wish to reside in, thus possibly leaving all that they previously had known and grown accustomed to. This reality is brutally true for Beatrice Prior as she is forced to come to grips with making this type of decision. Upon making her ultimate decision to join Dauntless she states, “This is what I chose. This is it.” Numerous other decisions are put in front of Beatrice Prior throughout the plot, therefore proving the worldview in Divergent to be rooted in decisions and choices. These choices, in turn, have a long-term effect on someone’s life. The worldview in any novel is brought to life by the author. Taking a look at the author of Divergent, known as Veronica Roth, one immediately comes to the conclusion that she is a believer and follower of Jesus Christ. She freely professes her faith and love for the Lord; therefore, one can see the intricate parallels from Divergent to the Scriptures. For example, the concept of one choice defining the rest of a person’s life or destiny is similar to the monumental choice made in the Garden of Eden, which
Sacrifice is the hardest thing to do. In Veronica Roth’s Insurgent, Tris will do anything to help benefit others. Over the past while Tris has experienced a lot. She has lost friends and her parents. She has sacrificed her life and relationship with Tobias and some of closest friends.
In the book Allegiant, by Veronica Roth, there is one big conflict that causes the other conflicts throughout the book. The big conflict is that the Allegiant are uprising against Evelyn and the Factionless. The Bureau is in charge of the city, but the citizens do not know that they exist. To stop everyone from killing themselves, the Bureau decides to reset everyone's memories with the memory serum. Tobias joins an uprising against the Bureau. After the uprising, he realized that they were trying to find the death serum. Tobias felt bad for taking part in the rebellion and Tris was on the verge of breaking up with him. Then, Tris forms her own group and plans to save the city from the memory serum. One problem is that in order to save the city, Caleb has to die because of the death serum. Tobias and the others were trying to settle the dispute between his mother, Evelyn, and his father, Marcus. Instead of Caleb dying, Tris
She wonders how each choice will affect the city and how it will affect her. The tagline of Insurgent is “one choice can destroy you” (Roth). Tris’ decision can destroy her, not literally, but emotionally. Deciding against Evelyn means deciding against Tobias, whom she trusts and loves. But deciding to go against Marcus and to help Evelyn’s plan succeed, means destroying an entire faction and killing more people. “How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most important relationships and friendships, and damage another” (Roth 155). Tris ultimately decides against Evelyn and Tobias is not happy with her. Not only does Tris have endless amounts of guilt swimming through her head, she has to decide the fate of her city. Actress Shailene Woodley, who plays Tris in the Divergent Trilogy movies, shared in an interview with Los Angeles Times, “it was fun to explore this Tris because she was going through so much more of an internal emotional battle than in the first movie. In the last film she lost her parents, she lost her best friend, so in this movie she’s dealing with a lot of guilt while also trying to figure out how to continue to aid the community that exists around her.” Tris’ final decision may define the final outcome for the community. When talking about if Tris will kill the main antagonist, Janine, in an interview with The Huffington Post, Roth says that Tris always has “her parents in her head, telling her what’s right and what’s wrong.” Tris listens to what she imagines her parents would tell her and that is where she bases her decisions
The author decided to continue the story by giving chapters using Four’s perspective and by doing a time skip. If someone reads this book and hasn’t read the books published before Allegiant and expect to understand they will be disappointed. The ending itself is just complicated and confusing. Overall the author should have just ended the book after Tris’ death instead of adding more chapters. The time skip of two years and half causes many plot holes to appear. The reader is then left up to make theories and make ideas of what they believed happens
How would you feel if the rest of your life was chosen for you based on a simulation? How would you feel if you were to choose to become brave, honest, selfless, compassionate, or intelligent? What if the choice you made meant that you would never be able to visit your family again? In a rigidly structured, dystopian futuristic Chicago in a book called Divergent there is a young woman named Beatrice Prior (“Tris”) that will make the ultimate choice. This book is written by Veronica Roth, who writes young adult fiction, specifically the Divergent series followed by Insurgent and Allegiant. In the book Divergent the characters’ choices are strongly impacted by the societies they live in.
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
In chapter 12 of Veronica Roth’s Divergent, precise words were used to help the reader connect with the text. In this chapter, Tris wakes up for another day of training to find a paintball gun and some ammo at the foot of her bed. Later in the day, the initiates hop on a train to the paintball arena to play some traditional games. One example of this is on page 130 when Tris is getting back from a fight where she was bruised and scratched all over her body, “I crawl across my mattress, and heave a sigh.” This helps me connect to the real world because when you have to crawl across your mattress you are in a very tired and weak state. This word is better than the words, get or lay, because it helps me connect to a certain time when I have crawled