Here is the summary for Divergent by Veronica Roth:
In a dystopian Chicago there is a girl named Beatrice Prior. Her world is split into five factions, each for a different virtue. Candor (for the honest), Abnegation (for the selfless and the faction that Beatrice has lived in all her life), Dauntless (for the brave), Amity (for the peaceful), and Erudite (for the intelligent). Each year every sixteen year-old in every faction must choose which faction they will continue to live their lives in. But for Beatrice it isn't so easy. She must choose between her family and what she really wants. The choice that she makes surprised everyone. Beatrice chooses to re-name herself Tris and together with her fellow initiates she must undergo they initiation. Along the way she meets a boy who is sometimes fascinating and sometimes exasperating. It becomes harder and harder to hide her biggest secret and as it becomes a burden it also becomes a gift. She learns that though it may kill her it could also save everyone she loves.
I read Divergent after the other two books were already published but I still haven't read the other two. At some point I will, I found the first book intriguing, but not... what I expected it to be. Beatrice (or Tris) is a girl who has grown up with only one thing in mind. To be selfless but when she has a chance to choose something different, something daring she takes it. The story, to me, is about a girl trying to break free from her old life and create a new her. Experience new things. It was full of tension and so I could barely put it down, but it didn't capture me like other books do. I don't know why, it just didn't. The writing in it was amazing and Veronica Roth was very good at clearly showing what her characters were feeling without out right telling you. I knew when Beatrice was crying because she was sad or because she was frustrated. I understood her attraction to Four. When I was reading it I could not only clearly see how Tris was changing, but how her friends and the people surrounding her were changing. I found Four an interesting character and I knew when I was first introduced to him that he would be the love interest of Tris. Perhaps only because I'm good on picking up on things like that. Veronica Roth really dug into the fears of these characters. What are their fears? Can they or will they over come them? How can they overcome them? Those were some questions that were raised as I read it. The book dealt a lot about the character's fears. And then there was the fact that Tris is Divergent. She can't be pinned to any one faction, she can overcome her fears unlike others. Four and her were a good match since she couldn't be pinned down. The reason for his nick-name is because he has only four fears, which I thought was very interesting. I won't tell you who turns out to be the bad guy, but I think that as you read it the antagonist will become pretty clear. The book has many different layers, but I think that by the end of the book there's one main theme. A girl breaking free from her identity and trying to forge a knew person out of herself. Over all, the book was fairly clean. There were a few kisses, maybe one adultish scene, nothing really big. I really wrote this review because the movie will be coming out soon and I can not wait to see it. I have a feeling that it will follow closely to the book. Give Divergent a try and you might just have to read the second and third because of the ending or just because you fell absolutely in love with it. Then watch the movie. I love reading a book and then watching the movie and then contrasting the two. Trust me I could go on and on about movies and books and my feelings on that particular subject but I won't because this post is supposed to be about Divergent so I'll leave you with this: Try the book out and see how you like it and then go watch the movie.
In a dystopian Chicago there is a girl named Beatrice Prior. Her world is split into five factions, each for a different virtue. Candor (for the honest), Abnegation (for the selfless and the faction that Beatrice has lived in all her life), Dauntless (for the brave), Amity (for the peaceful), and Erudite (for the intelligent). Each year every sixteen year-old in every faction must choose which faction they will continue to live their lives in. But for Beatrice it isn't so easy. She must choose between her family and what she really wants. The choice that she makes surprised everyone. Beatrice chooses to re-name herself Tris and together with her fellow initiates she must undergo they initiation. Along the way she meets a boy who is sometimes fascinating and sometimes exasperating. It becomes harder and harder to hide her biggest secret and as it becomes a burden it also becomes a gift. She learns that though it may kill her it could also save everyone she loves.
I read Divergent after the other two books were already published but I still haven't read the other two. At some point I will, I found the first book intriguing, but not... what I expected it to be. Beatrice (or Tris) is a girl who has grown up with only one thing in mind. To be selfless but when she has a chance to choose something different, something daring she takes it. The story, to me, is about a girl trying to break free from her old life and create a new her. Experience new things. It was full of tension and so I could barely put it down, but it didn't capture me like other books do. I don't know why, it just didn't. The writing in it was amazing and Veronica Roth was very good at clearly showing what her characters were feeling without out right telling you. I knew when Beatrice was crying because she was sad or because she was frustrated. I understood her attraction to Four. When I was reading it I could not only clearly see how Tris was changing, but how her friends and the people surrounding her were changing. I found Four an interesting character and I knew when I was first introduced to him that he would be the love interest of Tris. Perhaps only because I'm good on picking up on things like that. Veronica Roth really dug into the fears of these characters. What are their fears? Can they or will they over come them? How can they overcome them? Those were some questions that were raised as I read it. The book dealt a lot about the character's fears. And then there was the fact that Tris is Divergent. She can't be pinned to any one faction, she can overcome her fears unlike others. Four and her were a good match since she couldn't be pinned down. The reason for his nick-name is because he has only four fears, which I thought was very interesting. I won't tell you who turns out to be the bad guy, but I think that as you read it the antagonist will become pretty clear. The book has many different layers, but I think that by the end of the book there's one main theme. A girl breaking free from her identity and trying to forge a knew person out of herself. Over all, the book was fairly clean. There were a few kisses, maybe one adultish scene, nothing really big. I really wrote this review because the movie will be coming out soon and I can not wait to see it. I have a feeling that it will follow closely to the book. Give Divergent a try and you might just have to read the second and third because of the ending or just because you fell absolutely in love with it. Then watch the movie. I love reading a book and then watching the movie and then contrasting the two. Trust me I could go on and on about movies and books and my feelings on that particular subject but I won't because this post is supposed to be about Divergent so I'll leave you with this: Try the book out and see how you like it and then go watch the movie.
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