Antigone And Tris Compare And Contrast

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I learned a lot of new information during this project. I learned that there are many protagonists that compare to the ones in the books we read. I chose to present on Antigone and Tris. Tris is the main character in a book series called Divergent. There are three books in this novel set. Antigone and Tris can be compared in many ways. Both of their societies are afraid of disobeying. This is shown throughout both novels that I presented on. Antigone’s society was afraid of Creon. They wanted to follow the God’s laws but Creon was threatening to kill them if they disobeyed. Tris’s society was afraid of divergent people, which was what Tris was. There are many other comparisons between the two characters. Another is that both of their families

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