Dear Reader,One of my favorite book series is the Divergent series by Veronica Roth. I love this book because it is science fiction, and includes lots of action, drama, and tragedy. There are four books in the series and there are three movies. One of my favorite things about the book is it shows character development and change. I also love the suspense in the movie/books and the climax always has you wanting to know the end. One of my favorite quotes is “Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.” I like this quote because it shows that every person isn't fearless and will always have a weak spot. Tris Prior, the main character, is a brave and selfless person, but towards the beginning of the book she doesn't quite know who she is, but throughout the book, she finds her identity and can become a stronger, braver person. The plot of the story takes place in future Chicago and is divided up into factions, Abnegation (selfless), Candor (honesty order), Amity (kindness, harmony), Dauntless (brave, fearless), and Erudite (smartness). Every year there is an event called the opening ceremony. This event allows anyone who is the age of 16, and every man and woman get to choose which faction they will live in for the rest of their life. They can choose the faction they were born into, or a different one, although it is most common to stay in their original faction. Tris Prior is born into Abnegation, the selfless faction, but chooses Dauntless because of her brave virtue. One special thing about Tris is that she is Divergent (very rare). As well as the government wanting to kill Diverents, this means that she doesn't belong to any of the factions and that she can control her mindset when others cannot, causing her to be in grave danger. As Tris starts in her new faction, Dauntless, things are a bit different than expected. Only a few people will live through the final stages, some will die and some will become factionless (living on the streets without a faction). Tris is forced to push herself every day to make the top cut so she won't become factionless. While balancing all of this, Tris is also forced to hide her identity as a Divergent so she can stay alive. In Dauntless there is ranking from best to worst based on physical & mental responses to challenges. At the end of each training the rankings will determine who is cut, meaning the lowest ranking indicates will become factionless or in other words, have to leave Dauntless and have nowhere to go and cant return home to their original faction. This was a new rule that was created by the government and wasn’t told before the initiates choose their faction. So no one who chose Dauntless was aware that if they failed they would be factionless forever. Tris starts to like one of the group leaders, Four. She hides her feelings for him at first, but eventually, they both start to like each other. Four and Tris discover that they are both Divergent, and they are forced to keep that hidden as well as their relationship from the rest of the faction. There are several training stages and many people are cut or removed from the Dauntless faction. In the first stage, it is all physical, so Tris is faced with many fights and has to work every day to become stronger than the rest to stay above the cut line. The second stage of training is all about mental, however, Tris has the advantage here because she is Divergent. In this stage, everyone is put into a serum where hypothetically they battle their worst fears. Tris knows that it is just a dream and not reality, whereas the others are not able to differentiate the difference between reality and when they are facing their fears. Tris is in 1rst place during this stage because she can escape her fearscape in the least amount of time. However, during this stage which tests your mental strength, many of the Dauntless in training [- yk;begins to get jealous of Tris. Some of them get frightened that she is such a weak girl but can beat them in rankings for the mental training stage and even try to kill her while Four was there to save her.
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