On March 21 Divergent will be released in theaters. I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait.
Tris gets the biggest change of her life when she transfers from the selfless Abnegation to the Dauntless faction, who live by the rule YOLO. A short, fierce blonde, she is the first to jump off a building that leads to the entrance of the Dauntless cave. Four is her instructor for the initiation. He maintains the tough guy attitude, even going so far as to nick her ear with a knife to teach her a lesson because she is so stubborn.
What do they have in common? Both are Divergent and if anyone finds out, they are as good as dead.
When my friends told me I had to read this book, I didn’t because it reminded me of the book Matched, which I disliked. So I was wary when I first started. Veronica Roth did a good job and I liked a few things in particular.
Roth’s characters are normal people who are put in abnormal situations. Any girl who has had to make tough choices that anger her family can relate to Tris, just like any guy who has ever been afraid of losing someone they loved can relate to Four. And anyone who has ever feared being discovered, whatever the reason, can relate to the characters in this book.
Roth’s scenery is vivid. On page 147 she writes, “For a few seconds I see only a dark blanket over the land in front of me, just faint differences between building and sky and street and ground.” Let that sink in for a moment. Roth describes the land at night from the top of a ferris wheel and I can see it: the buildings, the trees, the trains, like the folds of a blanket.
Roth set up her world separating humans based on their traits. The book shows the readers what would happen if every person were stripped to a single attribute, and whether or not the damage can be fixed.
See you in the theaters next week.
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