The books “Divergent” by Veronica Roth and “Red Queen” by Victoria Aveyard are alike in many ways. Their concepts are similar because they both consist of difficult family life and are about a teenage girl who has to learn how to survive in new environments they end up in while bearing a huge secret. “Divergent” is about a sixteen-year-old named Tris Prior. In her futuristic and dystopian world, society is divided into five different factions. On an assigned day of each year, every teen must choose whether to stay in their birth faction (the faction in which they were born in) or switch to a new one. In order to make their choice easier, they all take an aptitude test. Each test is supposed to result with one faction that the person would be suited to, but Tris comes out with three. …show more content…
In her realm, Divergent is a very dangerous thing, and if anybody found out, then she would be killed. My other book, “Red Queen” is about an 18-year-old named Mare Barrow. In Mare’s world, society is also divided—but by blood. There are two different types of blood, which are red and silver. Silvers are considered superior to Reds because they have magical abilities that make them godlike. This causes a very unjust life because while Silvers are out doing whatever they want, Reds are trapped in their own little villages, having very little money, and being conscripted once they reach the age of 18 because Norta (the country this book takes place in) is in a war. Mare is a Red, which means that she is very poor. One day, an expected event occurs which leads her to the royal castle. Once Mare gets there, she discovers that she has magical abilities that only Silvers have in front of all the nobles and even the royal family themselves. To hide this possibility, the royal family disguises her as the lost Silver princess, Lady Mareena Titanos. Now, she has to learn how to survive in this new world because one wrong move could cost her her
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,
On her journey to collect the payment, she meets a boy named Cal, near her age who helps her pay for the escape of her and her friend. Her sister’s hand is broken in the process of trying to save Mare from Silver soldiers, in turn making her lose her job and sending the family into poverty. She meets with the Scarlet Guard, the Guard leads her to the palace where she serves the god like Silvers. Here is where her life will change forever. Discovering her abilities of a Silver, lighting, even if she is a Red. To change things more, she finds that the generous boy, was the crown prince of House Calore and Jacos, son of late Queen Coriane, heir to the Kingdom of Norta and the Burning Crown, Tiberias the Seventh. It was Cal and his brother Maven, son of Elara, the current Queen. Her life changes as she is engaged to the young Prince Maven. Taken into the royal family, posing as a Silver, as Lady Mareena Titanos, daughter of Ethan Titanos. Now walking on a wire, Queen Elara, King Tiberias the Sixth,and Cal’s fiance Evangeline, will all kill her if she makes one wrong move. Young Mare lives out
she originally planned, getting anxious to finally be free from the horrible city, she stays
she uses her brains to mastermind a plan to cleverly sneak her way behind enemy lines and
In the beginning of the book Tris has to make a very tough choice of which faction to go to. She has a very hard choice because her aptitude test results did not tell her just one faction she is most like. This choice can affect her life. Veronica writes “ I stare into my own eyes for a moment. Today is the day of the aptitude test that will show me which of the five factions I belong in. And tomorrow, at the Choosing
For my independent choice reading, I chose the book Rebel Belle. The main character, Harper, is the school’s it girl. She has the boyfriend everybody wants and a group of friends who will do anything for her. This all changes and suddenly she’s a Paladin, protecter of the Oracle. At first she can’t figure out who this is, or even what an Oracle or Paladin is, but once she does, things start to get complicated. She is sucked into this whole other world that involves car chases, murders, and trying to save her own life.
The life of Dana The novel Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones is the story of two families with the same father, a bigamist. Chaurisse and her mother Laverne, James Witherspoon's first wife, have no idea the other family exists. Dana and her mother are part of his secret life, playing second fiddle to the family they share their father/husband with. The novel presents a wide variety of instances where intersections between gender, race, or class influence a character’s life. This novel shows how the identity of people changes throughout the course of life and how it affects their interaction with other people in life.
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The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard does not require a great imagination. Ms. Aveyard does a splendid job of using imagery. The plot of the novel flows in a way that makes it feel real. The book is told from the perspective of Mare Barrow. Throughout the book we see the occurrences of her life. She progresses a great deal for the duration of the novel.
Inevitably, her escape was against her father’s wish as he believed that she would not be capable of successfully making through this trip by herself. However, she shows autonomy after being left alone by a guardian set up by her father, half way through the journey, she was able to, she was able to fix this situation on her own. With minimal help, she makes it to the cottagers defining that she set her own path for the continuity of her life. This independence is also expressed in such ways where she teaches herself social and language aspects of the cottagers. She did not rely on Felix to help her make it through this new life. Therefore, giving herself the freedom to educate herself in order to survive in this new
Both books Number the Stars (Lois Lowry) and Divergent (Veronica Roth) are excellent books, that are completely different when it comes to showing the issues. But are also related because of the Intense situations in the books. In Number The Stars, Annemarie, her family and her best friend Ellen are dealing with being a Jew in the Holocaust. In Divergent, Tris is not put into just one Fraction which her Society realize on. She is put into all of them, she is Divergent. Despite the fact that there is scary and intense moments in both books. From mass killings at concentration camps (Number The Stars) to hiding and fighting for what's right even though that means breaking the fractions and crushing society (Divergent). These books
...eisz. She can hear her playing the piano and thinks of her talking about art. She wonders if she is a real artist. She becomes exhausted and knows that she is too far out to return. The water that she was so mesmerized with throughout the novel and that was the beginning of her new life, was also the end.
Red Leaves by Sita Brahmachari is the story of a group of teenagers, each with family troubles, bonding and coming together, to make a family of their own. Graffiti Knight by Karen Bass, a story following a group of German teens, struggling under Soviet rule, working together to escape from the Soviet Union to America. The majority of Red Leaves was spent developing the characters, leaving less time to develop the plot or action of the story, in contrast, Graffiti Knight spent two-thirds of the story developing the plot up to the climax when the protagonists escape from the Soviets, leaving less time to develop the characters and their relationships. The character’s development and relationships
...the book, she has arrived at a full understanding of what is happening to her country. She has to leave her family to go to safety in another country. It is a big step for her like college is for me, but by the time she gets there I think her parents know she is ready. She is finally ready to go into the world alone and find her own way, like a teenager going off to college for the first time.
Her imagination starts going wild and she begun to visualize this amazing home that turns out to be just another creepy house in a new neighborhood that she does not feel to be her own. As the situation unfolds, we see Sadness want to take over, but Joy refuses to give her the commend as he wants to keep Riley happy by letting her visualize how her room can look like ones the movers come with all her personal belongings, but this soon come to a scratching stop as her mother informs her to the mistake that the movers have done. This sends her in a down word spiral witch affects her way of thinking and begins to changer her