Will What Happened To Tris In 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.

Veronica Roth is mostly known for her books from The Divergent Series. All her books so far have been a success but the most controversial one so far is Allegiant. The issue with this book is that the plot has similar references to other topics and can be a very cliché story. Veronica Roth’s Allegiant details on how the protagonist ends up dying like other typical stories and how suspense is added to the story just to be disappointed.

Jack’s fear shows the reader that not only can someone have an emotional and dangerous response to it, but it can also be used to manipulate someone for his pleasures. As a kid, Jack, feared and hated his father and loved his mother. He feared whenever his psychopathic father would bring and beat his mother in the basement. The tables turned when a deep sense of realization switched into the psyche of his mind, he ended up loving the beatings and craved the cause of fear towards his mother. His innocence is lost and is refined into the mind of a psychopath, “ The knowledge that the father could instil such terror into another human being turned the boy’s fear of him into admiration and he began to emulate him. Soon,

overcome their fears. Through the actions and decisions of the characters the themes of fear and

Or go to a different faction, and will her life the way she wants. She is scared but knowing that, that’s ok. She learns how to control her fears and not let them control her. When Tris goes into simulation, one of her fears is her killing her family. By facing her fears in the simulation she is able to overcome them and becomes braver and stronger. She finds her identity and finds her ability to be different can’t be controlled. With her confidence growing she finds she is ready to take on more obstacles. Tris teaches us that it is okay to be scared and that we don’t have to be fearless, but that we can learn to control our fear. In the real world most people cling to their fears because facing them seems too hard. Instead, like Tris, we need to learn to climb up that mountain and face them head on.

This happens when she is preparing to choose her fate and move to a place that she truly belongs in. But, when she discovers that there is such thing as a “divergent”, and that she is one, she gets very confused. Tori, the girl that reveals to Tris that she is more different than she thought says “ ‘[...] under no circumstances should you share [that you are Divergent] with anyone” (Roth 21). Tris then has to change how she acts in simulations, which reveal fears by copying certain parts of someone’s mind, and go on without using her secret abilities of being able to alter her mindset and got out of simulations easily. The book even divulges that,“ ‘[...] if they discover what you are, they will kill you’ “ (Roth 257). This shows that the government is trying to rid the world of all divergent, including Tris.

Delirium and Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver are two amazing books part of a series. Delirium is the story of Lena Haloway who lives in a dystopian society where love is forbidden. It is the deadliest of all things in their world. In the begining Lena starts out a good girl who follows all the rules, is scared of love and believes everything that shes been told about love. All until she meets Alex. Once she meets Alex, everything changes. In Pandemonium Lena lived in the wilds and has been through so much hardship that it has roughened her soul like summer time roughenes your feet. She is now is living in New York City and returned from the wilds.

Lena Haloway is a 17-year-old girl who was lied to her entire life; now she’s going to get revenge. Pandemonium, by Lauren Oliver, is a fiction book. It’s a relatable story about a young girl trying to get through her life. Pandemonium is a good book, but it is considered a “young-adult”(Keller 3) book. It doesn’t stretch your mind as much as some teachers would like a summer book to do. Even though this is a book for younger people, it is still a terrific choice for a summer read.

The second book I am reading is Divergent by Veronica Roth and I am on page 115. This book is about a young woman named Tris, who has to face the decision of her lifetime. This decision will be choosing her faction, which could involve leaving the faction she currently is in. In

Paige is deathly afraid of water because of the drowning incident. She doesn’t know if she will ever not be afraid of water. “Being deep within the water I felt trapped like I always was in my nightmare” (288), the author had Paige go to a community pool at night and had her reminded of the nightmare and mad her wonder if she will ever get over this painful fear. Death can happen to anyone at any moment. Paige had lost two very important people in her life, her grandmother had a stroke. “My grandmother was really gone, and even a nights’ sleep didn’t dream it away” (335) she thought the pain of Aaron’s death and how the death of her grandma will forever be with her. Becoming okay with reality can be a hard mission to accomplish. It can be a long process or impossible because it’s always changing. “Giving Thy relationship Evolution both and it’s for magic and it’s changing awkwardness”(Lord), The author has page and Max start out as friends then had reality take them on the roller coaster of life and have them follow with each other. Not being in total control what problems life brings is hard on the young

Veronica’s success landed her in Forbes 2014 magazine as the sixth most profitable author in the world (web). Not to mention only at age 26 Chicago based Roth as one of the youngest writers to have such success (web). Divergent makes the reader think if they were in Tris’s shoes what they would choose. Would you want to be with your family? Or do you want to experience life and go with what the feel is the best thing in for themselves? The readers tend to fall with Trish and the guy she falls in love with. As a critique tells us “Veronica Roth’s Divergent was based around many aspects, but what I like the most about this book was that it displays the not only the relationship that Tris had with four” (web). Tris the main character of Divergent gave the fans a connection with the young teen. “Divergent by Veronica Roth is, for all good and bad, a young adult book, carrying with it all the troops and ideological perfection unnecessary when writing sixteen year old stuff” (web). The book really showed readers that it is okay to choose who they want to be in life and to take the consequences of it. It might be the best thing they do in life or the worst but the best part of it all is that

I have read Allegiant by Veronica Roth. This book is about a group called the Allegiant leaving the city so they can see what it is like on the outside. They end up at the Bureau and learn the city they live in is just an experiment. The Allegiant find out the Bureau wants the erase everyone’s minds in the city, so they made a plan and succeeded at taking down the Bureau. The main character Tris died at the last phase of the attack making everyone who knows her feel depressed.

She has to change and toughen up when she is fleeing from the Nazis. She walks until her feet are bleeding, totally blind all of the way to her uncle’s. She had to ignore her confusion and push on. When she arrives at her uncle’s house, she is confined to a small area, with only a radio and her uncle reading to entertain her. Once the Nazis declare a ban on radios she has to make a dangerous decision to convince her uncle.

In the book “Divergent” by Veronica Roth, the character’s loving and assertive qualities contribute to the author’s message that fight for the things you know are right.

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