The motifs in Divergent are frequent and powerful. One motif in the book, is, Tris is a divergent. Other motifs are that, Peter and his friends are cowards, and that Four (Tobias) completes Tris. These motifs represent who Tris is as a person. Beatrice being Divergent is “dangerous” to the society. Her Divergence is considered dangerous because they do not follow one specific faction. Tris for example was born in Abnegation, which is the faction revolving around being selfless; Tris leaves the faction for Dauntless, where the initiates are outgoing and free, which is what she wants. While Tris is in Dauntless she realizes that her being in her new faction has brought out her Abnegation side. This happens when Page 203 is when Edward gets stabbed …show more content…
This is evidence that Peter and Drew are cowards because they were so nervous that Drew was going to get kicked out they made someone factionless. Lastly Four (Tobias) completes Tris. Tris doesn't want to feel anything but with Four she lets down her walls so that he will come in and help her. Tris and Tobias connect at both being from Abnegation and moving to Dauntless, but they are what they need. Four can not be Four without Tris and visa versa. Over all Divergent is a great book full of character and meaning. It shows the way society is today and how we are afraid of the different people. Divergent is full of motifs, but these stood out the most. These motifs stood out because they create who Tris is and who she becomes. With being divergent it is showing that society doesn’t want difference. Peter and his posse being rude to Tris and her friends proves they are afraid, that is what bullies do. Four completing Tris is what holds her together. All these motifs make Tris who she is in the
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
she originally planned, getting anxious to finally be free from the horrible city, she stays
themes is that of "the veil." The veil provides a link between the 14 seemingly
she uses her brains to mastermind a plan to cleverly sneak her way behind enemy lines and
purpose; she flees from him. He then sees the souls of those who died in battle.
makes each of them aware of the part they had played that lead to her
One way concepts novel Brave New World contrasts with the real world is how the world state deals with the concept of love and marriage. Everyone belongs to everyone else is a statement
The themes that are similar in both of the novels are that guilt is detrimental to oneself and that redemption is key to happiness. These points are especially
themes as well as some of the symbols, and try to explain the ending of the book.
In her story “Currents” Hannah Vosckuil uses symbolism, and a reverse narrative structure to show the story of how unnamed sympathetic and antagonistic characters react differently to a traumatic event. Symbolism can be found in this story in the way that Gary does not mind sitting in the dark alone at the end of the day as well as how both of his girls are affected by the symbolism of hands. One holding a boy’s hand for the first time and the other becoming sick after seeing the dead boy’s hand fall off the stretcher. The sympathetic and antagonistic manner of these characters is shown when both girls are told by their grandmother that they must return to the water to swim the next day. The grandmother sees this simply as a way of encouraging them and keeping them from becoming afraid of the water. However, the girls see this as a scary proposition because of what had happened, showing the grandmother as an antagonist character to the little girls.
which are a set of vulture-like talons, and snatches him to her. She is intent
Learning about it and talking about it are two different things to me. Even though Divergent is set in a futuristic world a lot of the structures in that society go hand and hand with our society today. We have achieved or ascribed statuses, kids who are born into religion or parents who decide they want to be a certain religion. We have kids born into a certain job and do it because their parents want them to choose it. I see day in and day out people following the rules because they don’t want to be an outcast in society. If you don’t follow our society’s norms people look at you like you are crazy and no one wants to be looked at like they are crazy. If you don’t follow society’s rules then you can end up in poverty and have no one to care about you. So many people in the movie followed the rules because they thought that’s the only way society can be ran but it isn’t. Today I also see a lot of the same things going on. In the movie Tris stepped up and did the right thing, once Tris did that more and more stepped up and joined the cause. We today do the same thing, we don’t step up and do the right thing until others do. In present society we have primary groups who each have their purpose of keeping society functioning. We have teachers who teach knowledge to kids who someday will have jobs to keep society running. We have the work labor force to do the things that people like politicians don’t want to
place for her to determine that she was in fact a border dweller. This awakening is crucial to her
... said Divergent shows how the pressure really is with "Having to choose between following in your parents' footsteps or doing something new."
In summary, the three literary elements theme, symbolism, and characterization play a big part in giving life to the play. Starting with the characters having difficulty accepting reality, symbols that represent each of them, and the attitude of their character.