I thoroughly enjoyed the book Divergent. It had an interesting rising action where the author let you wonder about all of the loose ends. It kept me wondering, “Will Tris find her place in the faction system? Will she get caught? Will Divergence ever be acceptable? How will she cope with all of the death around her?” The climax tied up all of those loose ends and set me up for the next book. Veronica Roth did a brilliant job setting up the characters in the story line and descriptively describing them. I could picture in my head every detail of a scenario she described, anything from what color Beatrice’s hair was or if there was a scratching sound in the corner of the room; I knew every last detail and it gave me a great picture in my head of what was going on. I didn’t like how little information there was of a few of the characters’ past, though I assume Veronica is just saving details to make her next two books more secretive and exciting. Divergent related to everyday situations but in a more extreme way. Like Beatrice’s fight to figure out who she is, obviousoly in the real world no ones going to kill you or kick you out of society if you don’t know who you are or you don’t fit in but everyone has a point in their life when they cant figure out what they want to do in life and what their personality is. Veronica shows the Identity Crisis that everyone has in the book as Beatrice finding her path. The book was also left open ended so you would have to read the next books! Divergent left me wanting more of the story and it set me up for the next book. I would suggest reading this book and posting your own thoughts on it.
Turning point of the novel: The turning point of the novel or the Climax begins when Beatrice wakes up to find her friends being controlled. It ends when the remaining Abnegation members get to safety though some argue that the climax could have been over as soon as Tobias and Beatrice disabled the computer that were controlling the Dauntless soldiers. Internal: The Internal conflict of the novel is Beatrice’s fight against herself to decide what faction she belongs to, figuring who she is as a person, and what is right compared to what is wrong. By the end of the novel Beatrice decides she doesn’t belong to any faction or one single personality and she decides she is Divergent. Later she still has issues with her identity but not the same ones. She still hadn’t figured out what was right and what was wrong, in her definition, by the end of the book but she made some progress. For example she was forced to kill one of her best friends and she knew that was wrong but she also knew that it was okay because he was trying to kill her, but in her mind that still didn’t make it right. External:
The External conflict was the fight for power between the factions. The Erudite thought that Abnegation should give up their power of the government because Erudite thought they were improperly using the resources they had while some Dauntless agreed with them but only because they were greedy and the Erudite had spies in the Dauntless compound. At the end of the book the Erudite use mind controlling devices to take over the Dauntless soldiers so they can kill all of the Abnegation people so they can take over the government and rule the way they want to. |
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