Reading Response 4: Divergent

     Divergent is a book that takes you into an entirely new setting of life. The post-apocalyptic setting creates a new environment that can be taken as reasonable or completely unacceptable in life society. The way of life in the book is split into different factions; each being a way to function in society. Each of the factions are supposed to work hand-in-hand, holding to their duties and responsibilities to allow society to run as smoothly as possible.
     Nearing the end of the book the main characters, Tris and Four, end up secretly falling for each other. They keep their relationship a secret so Tris doesn't look like she is just given her place in dauntless during her initiation, but as initiation comes to a close bigger problems seem to find their way into their lives and Tris and Four are the only ones who are able to stop the madness. For one reason only; they are divergent.
     The faction of Erudite (the scientists/bookworms) begin to secretly form a plan to start a war between the factions. The Erudite leader, Jeanine, is the mastermind behind all of plans to start the war, destroying and killing all the Abnegation leaders. Jeanine is a scientists who creates all the simulations that the dauntless and other factions use during the initiation process, so she has an insight to all of the other factions without being detected. Secretly Jeanine injected every member of the dauntless faction to become "sleep walking soldiers". When they were injected they were told it was a tracking device, incase anyone ever got lost. Instead she took over their abilities to function for themselves and turned them into killing machines by almost completely wiping out the entire abnegation faction.
     Throughout the end of the book terrible things happen to Four and Tris has to do this on her own to fight off the war that is taking out her former faction, abnegation. Tris soon finds out that because she is divergent she has capabilities that no one else has. She learns that being self-less and brave are not all that different. Tris discovered who she really is.

     "I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent."-Victoria Roth, Divergent
     This quote is one that has the most impact on the entire story. The quote is by Tris who finally believes and states who she really is, and who she always has been; she just never knew it. After Tris said that she was able to overcome so many things that seemed to always be getting in her way. She came to face who she really is and how she was able to use every inch of it as strength.

     Victoria Roth is an incredible author. She expressed her writing in thought and dialogue, which I find to be very helpful to understand, and to feel like I'm in the story itself. I love her writing style because I always find myself wanting to read more and more. I will soon be starting to read the next book in the series called Insurgent. I can't wait to get started and become enthralled and engrossed in my next read.