In Divergent by Veronica Roth many characters struggle to know who they really are and when they learn the answer it is often at a personal price. Beatrice Prior who later changes her name to Tris is the protagonist of the story and struggles the most to find out who she really is. She is a strong, caring and brave young woman who is forced to choose to either continue living with her family in a faction guided by selflessness or move to a new faction guided by bravery. She is almost unable to make her choice due to the fact that she got multiple results from her aptitude test, commonly referred to as divergent. Throughout the book she faces many challenges and adversities but each one helps her learn a little more about herself. By the end of the book Tris learns who she is and what she believes in but each time she learned more about herself she paid a great price.
In the beginning of the book it is very obvious the Tris does not know who she truly is which causes her to panic before her aptitude test. Her fear is shown in the quote, “I could tell him I’ve been worried for weeks about what the aptitude test will tell me—Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, Amity, or Dauntless.” (Roth, 5) Tris does not know who she is or even who she wants to be which makes her scared. Her fear is that she will not be able to fulfill initiation for her faction and will become factionless which is similar to being homeless but on a more severe level. More pressure is placed on her when the aptitude test gives her a possibility to be three of the five factions. The test proves her divergence endangering her life unless she can keep it a secret from everyone else. However, it also gives her the opportunity to either stay with her current faction or leave ...
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...d by mind controlled soldiers. As they hide Tris asks how her mother knows about the Divergent and she replies, “I know about them because I am one.” (Roth, 441) Shortly after this conversation her mother is shot so she can escape with her new information and save the rest of her family.
Until the end of the book Tris did not realize that she could be more than one faction and attempted to be something she was not. This inner conflict made her unable to save her friends and family from getting shot in front of her. Her mother, father and even a friend died so that she could learn who she really is and therefore save hundreds of lives. Tris started out as a confused, scared and ignorant girl but changed into someone who is compassionate, strong and brave. Tris has learned who she really is and what she believes in but only at the greatest cost, other people’s lives.
Tris changes from being unsure and weak to a strong, brave, and determined in the book, Divergent. In the beginning of the story, Tris thinks she is not selfless enough to be in Abnegation. She is even more confused as her aptitude test determines she is divergent, a person who has more than one personality type who is suited for more than one faction. As she transfers to Dauntless, Tris realizes that she is at a disadvantage in Stage One, which involved physical activity. She is short and scrawny, and she doesn’t excel in an of the exercises alongside losing the fights. This threatens her chance of passing initiation. As a result of this sudden change, Tris misses her caring family. However, Tris doesn’t mourn and drown in self-pity. Instead,
At the end she risks her life and becomes a pretty to become and experiment to David’s moms to test a cure to the brain lesions created when they go ... ... middle of paper ... ... o save them from going through a transformation that will change them forever. The moral of the book is you don’t have to get surgery to look a certain way.
In the first book, main character Beatrice “Tris” Prior (who is in fact Divergent and learns about it after she transfers to the Dauntless faction,
...f the bad that is going on in her real life, so she would have a happy place to live. With the collapse of her happy place her defense was gone and she had no protection from her insanity anymore. This caused all of her blocked out thoughts to swarm her mind and turn her completely insane. When the doctor found her, he tried to go in and help her. When the doctor finally got in he fainted because he had made so many positive changes with her and was utterly distressed when he found out that it was all for naught. This woman had made a safety net within her mind so that she would not have to deal with the reality of being in an insane asylum, but in the end everything failed and it seems that what she had been protecting herself from finally conquered her. She was then forced to succumb to her breakdown and realize that she was in the insane asylum for the long run.
I predict that Tris will discover that Four is also a Divergent, and they will start a rebellion together at the end of this book and beginning of the next one. I think that Four is a Divergent because of how he knew quite quickly that Tris was a Divergent. He didn’t have to scrutinize her he discovered it with ease. If he is not Divergent, then he must have known someone who was. “ ‘What?’ I demand. ‘You’re Divergent,’ he replies. I stare at him, fear pulsing through me like
In regards to chapter 10, the topic that I found particular interesting was the “differences-similarities dialectic”. The reason being on how it describes how humans interact with one another and the differences that attract the person to its peer. Similarity principal; a rational attraction suggesting individuals tend to be attracted to people they perceive to be similar to themselves (Martin & Nakayama, 398). I find it interesting that it’s the truth with this topic because everyone does it and they don’t know it because its second nature to them. An example would be a girl looking for a boyfriend and looking for something serious. If the father of the girl was around and she sees him as an example to follow she will look for a guy that
There is a central government that is in control of all these people who are separated into different groups. This same government can do whatever it pleases and the people have no say in what the government can and cannot do. In Divergent, the Government tries to use mind control to get its army to kill innocent people. It was up to people like Tris to stop the government from continuing to carry out the meticulous plan.
Perhaps the most prevalent literary device in Trifles is the rich symbolism. Each of the women in the play are equally important, but come together to become more powerful. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters directly bond, while Mrs. Wright indirectly contributes from jail by leaving them small clues. In Greek mythology, there are three sisters known as The Fates, who control the existence of men, and each of the women in Trifles seem to parallel The Fates. Mrs. Hale is strong witted,
is it that the reader know that Trifon’s daughters, “on feast days or when going
Set in a futuristic dystopia Chicago there is a society that is divided into five factions: Abnegation; selflessness, Amity; peaceful, Candor; honest, Dauntless; brave, and Erudite; knowledgeable. Each represents a different virtue of living one’s life. The children of this society have to decide whether they want to stay in their faction or switch to another, the choice is theirs. The young Beatrice “Tris” Prior makes a choice that surprises everyone including herself. After what seems to be the wrong choice, Tris and her fellow faction members have to go through a very competitive training in order to live with their new faction. They must go through intense psychological tests and extreme physical training that can either transform them or destroy them. If they fail to complete their training successfully they will be left frictionless and an outcast to society. While the Dauntless train, the Erudite devolve a life threatening plan that is carried out that night. They developed a serum that stops the brain’s thought process and all of the Dauntless become sleeper soldiers for they were injected with it. The serum does not work on Tris or Tobias “Four” Eaton because they are both Divergent. When they try to escape they are both caught and brought to Jeanine, the Erudite leader. She then sentences Tris to death and Tobias is sent to the control room to view the attack. Tris is locked inside a glass tank that fills with water, but moments later her mother saves her life. ...
In Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening, the protagonist Enda Pontellier experiences internal conflict as she journeys to her self-discovery. As she becomes aware of her supressed being within society and distances herself away in solitude, Enda is able to discover her essential self. Symbols and imagery such as the sea and the birds along with the physical setting of the novel, are constantly repeated in Chopin’s novel in order to demonstrate Enda’s progression to discovering her essential self and ultimately her spiritual awakening.
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