The story Divergent takes place in a future version of Chicago. In this futuristic city there are five distinct factions. Each faction has a different characteristic by which they follow. They all have a different opinion on which is best, but, the Dauntless believe bravery is the best, the Erudite think knowledge is the key to success, Abnegation is a bit out there and believes being pro-self-sacrifice is the way to go, the Amity loves friendship, and the Candor are the realists of this crazy place. The main character of this story is Beatrice Prior, she grew up in an abnegation family, but when she turned 16 she decided to join the Dauntless. She made this choice, because, she thought they were “cool” they have tattoos, piercings, and leather jackets. Beatrice also didn’t really fit in with the Abnegation, she was Divergent.
If you want to join a different faction you have to work for it. They won’t just give you their title. You have to train and go through an extremely tough competition to get into the faction. “I stare at my name on the board. My cheeks feel hot. Al and Christin...
Can one Choice define you? In Veronica Roth’s dystopian novel, Divergent, that is just one of the questions that will have you searching for answers. Roth will have you questioning your personal social role on society after you read her novel. The novel follows the point of view of the protagonist, tris Prior, who must decide on faction to join and pledge allegiance too for the rest of her life. There are five factions total. Read how the choice of allegiance, living with the choice, and the outcome of the choice all show key elements in social critic as Veronica Roth brings to life her dystopian novel The Divergent.
Have you ever pictured yourself being divergent? Do you even know what being Divergent is? Picture it like it's a good thing, but there are people trying to kill you just because you are unique and normal. In a Veronica Roth novel Divergent, Beatrice (Tris) battles an internal conflict of trying to find who she really is. Tris ultimately resolves this conflict by facing her fears in the fear landscape; however, this choice also illustrates her true character as both fearful and fearless. Tris’s decision to fight the war also reveals the universal theme that when people are trying to find themselves, the best way to know who you are is to first know who you love or who you care about.
The audience is introduced to her paternal and maternal grandparents and how racism and death is ingrained in their family history. For instance, as stated on page 14, “Men’s bodies litter my family history. The pain of the women they left behind pulls them from the beyond, makes them appear as ghosts”. This explains how the circumstance of how death from the past was very evident and it is now in her own life. In this division, Jesmyn relates this to her hometown, DeLisle, formerly called Wolf Town, is true to its name because of all the deaths that have occurred. As mentioned on page 14, “Sometimes, when I think of all the men who’ve died early in my family over the generations, I think DeLisle is the Wolf”. Racism seems to have been evident in her families history, as stated on page 11, “It’s not safe for you here. The Klan are here, You should not be caught out on these roads in the dark. So my grandmother and her siblings folded their small bodies into and hid under the suffocating blanket, and a seemingly White Man and his White mother drove south to DeLisle, to the mostly Creole, mixed-race community they called home”. To conclude, the second division recounts her families past generations and how death and racism has engulfed their
Have you ever stayed perfect your whole life? Of course not! Tris’s mother says “Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again”. I wholeheartedly agree with this statement, in the fact that it is human nature to do wrong things evil misdeeds. This is shown in the book Divergent when the Erudite murder Abnegation members for their own greed and power. Through biblical times as well as in modern day politics we still see people, with good intentions from the start, slowly poisoned by their own voracious greed, and desire for power and wealth.
Throughout 1984 and Divergent, conformity and obedience force the characters to go to great lengths in order to follow the basics and rules of the government. Throughout Orwell’s 1984, the individuals of the society hang onto every word, law, and thought of Big Brother. The citizens focus primarily on the Ministries and Party, not forming connections or relationships with others. Each member of a party have certain jobs and clothing assigned to them, separating them for others to easily detect. The same concept lies within the factions of Divergent. Each faction has a different job, and different colors to wear in order to display their role in society. The leaders of each Faction also hold the phrase “faction before blood,” depicting the same messege Big Brother enforces in 1984. Both governments want the individuals to stay within their parties, and do the jobs assigned to them. However, both novels include characters refusing to conform and obey to government rules. In 1984, Winston Smith resents Big Brother, using his knowledge from the Minitrue to reveal the lies the government spreads. Because of the disatisfaction Winston shows towards his government, O’Brien follows him, tortures him, and brainwashes him into conforming like the others. In Divergent, the government leaders label Beatrice Prior as a “divergent,” or one who possesses more than one
When looking at Welcome to Night Vale's many deviant acts we find that most of the deviance falls into three categories the first being Night Vale's deviance from the reality of society, the second being individual deviants, and the third being the climatic revolution. Each of these three categories has its own corresponding deviant social organization.
Beatrice Prior lives in a future version of Chicago where the people live in 5 distinct separated factions. Each faction has a different purpose and way of living. Dauntless, dangerous and protective, guards the city from the unknowns of the outside world. Erudite, smart and cunning, develop the city’s high-tech medicines and technology. Abnegation, selfless and caring, is responsible for taking care of the factionless and running the city’s government. Candor, always honest, provide the judges and lawyers for the city. And last but not least Amity, loving and peaceful, run the farms on the outside of the fences that surround the city. The Prior family belong to the Abnegation faction, and Beatrice has been taught her whole life how to be selfless and caring. When the children of this town turn sixteen they go through a special test that tells them which faction they are most suitable for. Most people only get one result from this test but Beatrice’s test stated that she was aptitude for three factions: Erudite, Abnegation, and Dauntless. This is very rare, but there are some other people like her. They are called Divergents. The day after the test there is a choosing ceremony where the children pick which faction they would like to be in. If they pick a different faction than what their family is in they are “shunned” and hardly ever see them again. Beatrice chooses the Dauntless faction and her family, and most of the town, is in shock. A faction transfer from Dauntless to Abnegation is almost unheard of. But choosing Dauntless is not all the initiates have to do to get into it. All new Dauntless initiates have to train and compete to become a member of Dauntless. One Dauntless tradition is initiates can chan...
Veronica Roth’s bestseller Divergent is the first book in her three part series about the world during a time when the government divides citizens up into five factions. Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, Amity, and Dauntless make up these factions and each one consists of different character traits that define it. Through the plot, characters, and themes, Roth tells a beautiful love story while keeping readers on the edge of their seat throughout the whole book.
If I were to be born into a specific faction, I believe I would most likely relate with the Dauntless group. This faction believes in its members being brave and showing random acts of bravery with everything they do. This includes standing up for other people and also standing up for what you believe in and what you know is right. The Dauntless manifesto states, “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another… We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.” My parents’ leadership roles throughout their lives would wear off on me and I believe this is the faction that I most likely would be born into.
After Back to the Future comes Back to the Future Part II, the movie opens where the first one left off: October 26, 1985. Marty and Jennifer are just about to kiss as the revamped DeLorean flies into the driveway. Doc jumps out of the car and goes for the trash can, he grabs a banana peel and what is left in an old beer can and puts it in the Mr. Fusion. He frantically insists that Marty goes to the future with him. Doc then tell him to bring Jennifer because it concerns her too. They pull out of the driveway, Marty tells Doc there’s not enough road to reach 88 miles per hour and Doc replies, “Roads? Where were going you don’t need roads.”
A marvelous novel “The Gathering”, written by Anne Enright is a very compelling read, traveling from the present into the past and dealing with the consequences that lead you into a darker future. The novel takes place in very odd locations that travel back into time around the older days of when houses were much smaller than in today’s society and technology was not yet simulated. Veronica, the narrator of the book is captivated by the physicality of the world. There are at least 4 diverse narratives going on throughout the story, and in all of these flashbacks veronica always seems to be cornered in by the world that revolves around her. Veronica lives a comfortable middle classed life but she is always travelling back in to the past trying to figure out where she fits in with her brother and herself after his death. Have you ever reminisced about the past so much that sometimes you find yourself either lost or living in it? My approach to this novel is that you can’t change anything that has occurred in the past but you can for sure try to resolve those problems in the future.
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. ...
The Divergent is a wonderful novel, written by Veronica Roth, that highlights the problems that power-hungry leaders cause by utilizing its wide range of characteristics and personalities. The characters live in a normal environment that is controlled by many leaders. It reveals how closely related it is to real life. Several other characters evolve into this state of selfishness that causes them to endanger the society.
The year was 3156. You would imagine there was peace in the world. It was as we were in paradise. There was no suffering in the world and we were the most advanced civilization than any on another planet. That is what we all thought it was going to be like. We were wrong. 300 years ago, darkness had taken over the world. Evil spirits entered from the spirit world to the human world in order to take over everything. It was a catastrophic time, with half the world dead. All the people of the world were jailed in the underworld away from the light. Lilith did not want humanity to get back in power. He was now the king of both the spirit world and the material world. Everyone was terrified of him.
The possibility of time travel has been explored extensively in the science fiction genre of literature, movies, and television shows. Time travel has an assortment of theories, with views on the definition of time travel, the metaphysics of time, causation, and arguments against the possibility of time travel with responses to counter them.