The book I choose to write about is Divergent. It is written by Veronica Roth.The book is about a divergent girl tris. Divergent means that they show more than one trait in a simulation. A simulation is when you get a shot of something and then you go into a state of mind where you think something’s happening to you, but it’s actually not. She is three of them;dauntless, abnegation, and erudite. Dauntless are the brave, abnegation are the selfless, and erudite are the intelligent. She chooses dauntless, which is the group of people that fight. In Divergent the main conflict is that Tris is Divergent, the theme is to be brave even through hard times. This lesson is learned throughout the whole book.
A part of this story where the theme is shown is when Al and some of his friends attack Tris. The three boys attacked her in the middle of the night, and take her to the valley in the middle of the dauntless headquarters.There are only small walkways with no railings to walk on. Then they hang her over the edge of the bridge, and try to kill her.They want to kill her because she is doing very good in their training, and they don’t want her to be #1. Suddenly Four, their trainer, comes and saves Tris before she can fall. Tris had to be brave when this was happening, and had to trust that someone would save her, or that she could pull herself back up.
Another part where Tris has to be brave is when she goes into simulations.In simulations you get faced with your fears and have to overcome them to get out of the simulations. Some of her fears are drowning, fire, and birds. She gets trapped in a glass room, that is filling with water. She gets attacked by huge birds, She gets in a fire. She can overcome them easily, but it is still hard to be in them. She is one of the fastest people to ever get out of a simulation. It takes her about a very short amount of time to get out. She is the second fastest in divergent.
A place where Tris has to be brave is when all of the other dauntless go under a simulation and they don’t know where they are or what they are doing. They also have no control over their bodies. Tris tries to fit in with all of the other people, and gets on the train with them. She finds Four, and finds out he is divergent. Divergent’s don’t get affected by this simulation. They go to the abnegation subdivisions, and start attacking them. Tris and Four try to fit in, but then turn on the other dauntless leaders. They attack them, but there are more dauntless that stop them. They had to be brave in this moment and hope that they weren’t going to die, or get wounded.
In Divergent the main conflict is that Tris is Divergent, the theme is to be brave even through hard times. This lesson is learned throughout the whole book. I liked this book a lot. My favorite parts were when Tris got first out of everyone who joined dauntless, and when they won the paintball capture the flag.
