A COMPARISON OF DIVERGENT, THE MOVIE, AND DIVERGENT, THE BOOK
1. Divergent, the Book
Divergent is a science fiction novel written by a female author, Veronica Roth. It is the debut in a trilogy by the same author and the series is known as Divergent Universe. The others are Insurgent and Allegiant. Divergent was published in 2011 by HarperCollins Children’s Books. It is targeted at young adults and is set in a post-apocalyptic scene which requires a relatively imaginative mind in order to be in sync with the author’s story. Divergent simply means a rare situation where an individual possesses two personality traits but, fortunately or unfortunately, has to choose one which to live with and by.
Tris (initially Beatrice Prior) is faced with a choice that she will commit to for the rest of her life. Like everyone else in the dystopian world of Chicago, she has to make this decision at only sixteen. There is a set date every year for all aged sixteen years to make this decision by taking a kind of aptitude test and having a serum administered to them. They have to choose virtues to abide by from five factions which are Dauntless (brevity), Erudite (intelligence), Abnegation (selflessness), Amity (peacefulness) and Candor (honesty). In addition, there is a Divergent group and there are those who are factionless.
After the test results are out, these teens must choose whether to remain in their previous family faction or join a new one. The serum also helps to recommend the faction they most fit in. Beatrice was born in a family that belongs to the Abnegation faction.
When she becomes Tris, she joins a group to help her train and develop her identity in this society that defines its citizens according to the factions they belong to. I...
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...ders and watchers and both need to be appealed in different ways.
Further, the movie is faster paced to fit in as many fragments as possible within the time alloted. Thus, several changes have been made to make this possible and still make an effort to tell the original story. Reading the novel and watching the film will definitely feel somewhat different to a keen mind that is ready to analyze and criticize.
3.4 Dates
The book came first. It was published on April 25 2011while the movie was released on March 18 2014. This is only just appropriate since there had to be a book for the movie to be adapted from.
In conclusion, the movie could have done better in its quest to reveal Veronica Roth’s fantasy. A big appreciation still goes out to the director for trying to bring the novel to visual reality and light up our silver screens with imaginations of the future.
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,
Overall, the movie and book have many differences and similarities, some more important than others. The story still is clear without many scenes from the book, but the movie would have more thought in it.
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
The Divergent Series is a novel by Veronica Roth that is set in a sort of dystopian future society that in actuality is Chicago that is being used like a type of experiment. You basically get sorted into these groups called factions where you will live out the rest of your days. But if you choose to leave you will become factionless which is the equivalent of homeless presently. You take a test to decide which faction you are best suited for. Once you have chosen you go through an initiation process. If you choose the faction you weren’t born into you can’t contact anyone from your old faction.
Dauntless she realizes that her being in her new faction has brought out her Abnegation side.
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.
In Divergent Beatrice is an outcast along with many others for something they cannot control. If we put this in school terms, people who might dress funny, Divergence, get bullied by the cool kids, Erudite. Although the Divergence are portrayed as the unacceptable people, they can also be portrayed as the only acceptable people in society. You point of view can change the way you see
In the morning, after the injection, Tris awakes to her best friend, Christina, and the rest of her roommates acting in a congruent manner. She soon realizes “...every Dauntless was injected yesterday. So now the entire faction is brain-dead, obedient, and trained to kill. Perfect soldiers” (Roth 418). Tris’s divergence means the injection does not affect her and she must imitate non divergents so she is not caught. The Dauntless are being programmed by Erudite to attack Abnegation, in order to overtake them from their government position. Tris has to be brave during this frightening situation and find a way to stop them. Four, whose divergence is discovered during this event unites with Tris to try and find help. They soon come across Eric, leader of Dauntless, which turns into a terrifying meetup. Because Eric is not in a sleepwalking trance, he jokingly talks with a member of Erudite about shooting Four. This joke turns into a reality and just before Eric pulls the trigger, Tris makes a decision that puts her in a life or death situation. She points her gun at Eric. Tris has now revealed she is not in a brain-dead state to save Four. Quickly, Tris is sent to be drowned in a glass container that gradually fills up with water, just like the one in her fear landscape. Tris has taught herself to control her breathing
For example, Mama goes to the bank in the movie and is given a hard time about paying her mortgage, but this did not happen in the book. Another major difference is that the school bus scene, where the Logan kids played a trick on the white kids, was not shown in the movie, even though it was an important part of the story. There are some character changes as well. Lillian Jean, Jeremy, R.W, and Melvin are Simms’ in the book, but in the movie they are Kaleb Wallace’s children. However, the main plot difference is how the movie starts in the middle, summarizing everything from the first part of the book very briefly. Additionally, many scenes are switched around and placed out of order. Altogether, the plot and character changes contribute to my unfavorable impression of the
In this novel, Tris shows us that being “normal” is in fact impossible since there is no “normal”. As a child, Tris felt out of place and outcasted in Abnegation because she knew she didn't belong in there. Changing fractions didn't allow it to be easier for her to fit in at any place at all, she was a deviation to society and didn't belong anywhere. But that didn't stop her from finding her friends Christina and Al, and it certainly didn't stop her from finding her love Tobias Eaton. Initially, Tris tried to pretend she was dauntless by getting tattoos and wearing tight clothing. Eventually, she changed her entire sense of style into something she wasn't used to in order to fit in. Us teenagers, also dress based on how the media and society says teenagers dress, and we're all willing to spend $1000 on the newest iPhone not since we need it, but since we want it. The truth is we're not much different from Tris Prior, in a way all of us just want to be in the crowd, our own motives are personal but our objective isn't. Closer to the end, we find Tris stop following what the commoners do, she knew if she actually was one of them, she would also be under simulation and unable to control herself. In time, her divergence became her greatest power once she used it as a weapon. We all found Tris fighting in the end to save Abnegation, even though both parents were dead. Any logical person would leave and save themselves while they could, but Tris wasn't them, she was totally different. In conclusion, Tris saved the lives of so many innocent people and that was enough for her, Tris showed us how little we could accomplish if we were similar to everyone else. She also showed us how much more we could achieve if we decided to fully embrace
The most remarkable thing about literature is its effect on society and the individual. Every once in a while a book is published that truly relates to those who read it. Divergent just so happens to be one of those books. Divergent is an extreme take on the differences of what virtues humans value to form the perfect society. The book’s contents are almost philosophical, acting as sustenance for the heart and soul, meanwhile highlighting the many problems we face in modern society through quotes in a subliminal fashion that coincide wonderfully with the story. One such quote can be found on pg.441 and it reads ‘’ Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.’’ It almost breaks the 3rd wall. Human beings were born with both flaws and goodness. We are a double edged sword with extreme potential on both points. Deep down there is something dark in everybody. There are those who can control it and those who are weak and succumb to it.
In conclusion, details involving the characters and symbolic meanings to objects are the factors that make the novel better than the movie. Leaving out aspects of the novel limits the viewer’s appreciation for the story. One may favor the film over the novel or vice versa, but that person will not overlook the intense work that went into the making of both. The film and novel have their similarities and differences, but both effectively communicate their meaning to the public.
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. ...
When someone reads Divergent they become enraptured in a world of morality, family, loss, love, war, but above all a journey of self discovery. Our whole class was enthralled by the exhilarating journey that Tris went through and were eagerly awaiting the chance to see Divergent come to life on the big screen. Our expectations for this movie were fairly high, but unfortunately our expectations were thrown into the chasm just like Al.
If it is true that we are humans and we learn by making mistakes, then aren’t we all considered a little Divergent? Everyone wants more out of life than what was given to them at birth, similar to Beatrice “Tris” Prior in the novel Divergent by Veronica Roth. Tris, a protagonist and the narrator shows that she is human by making many mistakes but learning from each of these mistakes. Tris survives the extremities of Dauntless initiation and foils the Erudite scheme to destroy the Abnegation faction. She succeeds with Four coaching her, but her true strength and power lies within herself- a Divergent. We seem to be able to associate ourselves with Tris because she changes and grows while transforming into an independent person. Beatrice Prior’s journey throughout Divergent is one that every person can relate to as she