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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. {my thoughts} – This book was amazing. I wish I had read it so much sooner. However, en-light of the movie coming out soon I needed to read it. This book sums up so many of life’s lessons. Tris is a remarkable character. She is strong, weak, self absorbed, caring, compassionate, shameful and much more. Tris goes on a long journey in this book. Her journey is based on self discovery. She was born of one faction and left to join another faction. However, throughout the entire book she is questioning if she chose to join the right faction or not, because inside she is completely at battle with who she really is as an individual. She struggled, she fought, and she did the best she could to overcome her fears. In this book we learn a lot about Tris and her family as well as Four and his family. All the things we learn become important and once you read the book you’ll understand more, however, if you want to find out what happened you need to read the book. I promise you won’t regret it. {my thoughts} – This book was amazing. I wish I had read it so much sooner. However, en-light of the movie coming out soon I needed to read it. This book sums up so many of life’s lessons. Tris is a remarkable character. She is strong, weak, self absorbed, caring, compassionate, shameful and much more. Tris goes on a long journey in this book. Her journey is based on self discovery. She was born of one faction and left to join another faction. However, throughout the entire book she is questioning if she chose to join the right faction or not, because inside she is completely at battle with who she really is as an individual. She struggled, she fought, and she did the best she could to overcome her fears. In this book we learn a lot about Tris and her family as well as Four and his family. All the things we learn become important and once you read the book you’ll understand more, however, if you want to find out what happened you need to read the book. I promise you won’t regret it. This is like a high 3.5 stars. 4 just feels like too much. (As few spoilers as possible contained below) I honestly don't care for the major ship in the book. I found it vaguely horrifying at times. The dude says it tenderly and admiringly that he forgets Tris is not invincible, as if it's so romantic that he puts her on a pedestal of strength. But I read it and thought, WHAT? He hurts her because he doesn't look closely enough at her to realize that she's capable of pain??? How much can you say you love someone if you aren't even a little concerned about their NEEDS? Tris has weakness and feels pain and I'm not sure it's such a nice thing that he forgets that. I did laugh in several places. The suicide made me very sad, even though he had screwed up royally, it still grieved me. I liked the big issues at stake in the book though, what is the best way to deal with fear, and when is killing another person justified? Most of the time there's no way to determine a right answer, and you just have to choose something and accept the consequences. Tris lost two friends to stay alive. If she had chosen to die her two friends probably would have stopped being friends. She was on a mission and she made her choice. I'm quite dizzy and shaky because I stayed up way too late reading this and then was so absorbed by the rest of it in the morning that I didn't eat anything. *bites banana tentatively* This is my second time reading this book. It still as good as i remember it. All the characters are interesting. The main character is smart. Ever time she gets into danger her first action is to think of what she already knows that can get her out of danger. Tris dating her instructor is wrong but for some reason i don’t mind it. There are a few flaws that the story has and some how don’t mind. Like the faction and how much of a trait you have to express in order to be divergent. Many characters that are transfers are shown to have traits of the faction that they are born in and the faction that they transferred to. Yet they are not divergent. This book was fast pace and so addicting. It was hard to put it down. This is one of my favorite dystopian. Is contained inHas the adaptationIs abridged inHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. No library descriptions found.
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Like many YA books these days, the world (in this case, a futuristic, ruined Chicago) is divided into 5 groups, called factions. Each faction has some overriding characteristic--bravery, selflessness, honesty, intelligence, or kindness--which sets them apart and gives them a clear sense of purpose. At 16, every child goes through a test to determine whether they should stay in their birth-faction or transfer and try to make it somewhere else. Not unlike with [a:J.K. Rowling|1077326|J.K. Rowling|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1351536377p2/1077326.jpg]'s sorting hat, kids are going to be attracted to this concept because it allows them to categorize themselves and, at least in the fantasy of the created world, simplify their self-understanding. Much of the conflict (though not as much as the title would suggest) has to do with the narrator, Tris, being Divergent. This is the condition of not being suited for a single faction, but instead showing proclivities for multiple groups. This is both a dangerous and powerful thing to be, but the reasons underpinning Tris' peril are murky at best. My biggest criticism of the book is that Roth does nothing to explain why the world is the way it is, or why divergence is such a problem for those in power. As readers, we are simple asked to accept these facts of life and move on with the story. My suspicion is that the explanation is being withheld because Tris doesn't have answers either, which is a point of craft I can appreciate. All the same, I would have liked something more to better underscore the magnitude of a character being Divergent.
The strength of this novel, and where I think it surpasses The Hunger Games, is in the character development. For all we don't know about the world at large, Roth does a nice job of creating complex, interesting characters with equally tangled relationships. The interpersonal stories add crucial depth to the sometimes brutal action scenes and often avoid simple classification. By the end of the novel, the reader is able to care about the characters and be invested in what will happen in the second book ([b:Insurgent|11735983|Insurgent (Divergent, #2)|Veronica Roth|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1325667729s/11735983.jpg|15524542]). This is setting up what I hope will be a more political, global sequel in which we already know enough about the central figures. ( )