Divergent. What an amazing read. Filled with limitless intrigue and sparkling suspense. The doors to the world of five factions open slowly, and you are eased into a place dominated by one emotion-one that you choose- one that you follow- but in this particular story, you also LIVE. And if you fail to do so,you suffer a fate comparable to death. To live without faction, apart from your family who will be humiliated. Because of you.
Beatrice. A perfectly normal girl in an abnegation home. On the day that she chooses which faction she will choose [one of the five: Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent)], everyone expects her to follow her family, and chose abnegation. Instead of abnegation though, she makes a last, split-second decision and spills her blood on the flaming coals of dauntless. I followed Beatrice as she walked- no ran! for the first time, and jumped from high heights. I flinched and paled when she almost got kicked out of her faction and set my heart as she got her tattoos symbolizing love for family and faction. My eyes burned and my throat ached as she saw her mother and was warned- for the second time about how she was- don’t say it- Insurgent, I gazed ahead, wondering about strange tides coming… What was erudite planning? And what role did each faction have in their plan? And of course. Four. Or, perhaps to her, Tobias. My lips twitched up in a smile as Tris slowly fell in love with Tobias. I sighed as their hands touched, and gasped when they fought. Slowly the plot thickened as things got increasingly odd. Eventually, just as Tris reaches a breakthrough, the plan is revealed. The cold-hearted erudite have concocted an injection that will make any injected be under their control. And who better to inject than the soldiers of the country? Tris watches as her mother is killed by people she knew. Finally as the book reaches is crescendo, she carries out a plan to try to break the spell- excuse me, science, that has made everyone a zombie. She faces some of her worst fears, and then there’s four. brainwashed like the rest, told to kill her. And he does. At least, he does kill. The leader of the erudite. And so,they ride off into a metaphorical sunrise. The sunrise happens to be blood red and is the symbol of the end of a people dominated by “faction before blood.” As Tobias once said ” I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.” Maybe life isn’t about surviving for just one ideal, but living for them all.
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