Book Title
“Divergent”
Summary
- In a world plagued by human failures of greed, ignorance, lies,
cowardice, and unnecessary aggression, a new society has emerged. From
the brink of the apocalypse, mankind has reorganized itself into a future
Chicago version, split into five factions, Abnegation (unselfish), Erudite
(intellectual), Dauntless (brave), Candor (honest), and Amity (peaceful)
who promote and live a single core value.
Born into an Abnegation family, Beatrice has lived her life trying to
uphold her parents ’aspirations. Only allowed to look in the mirror once a
year, fitted with the simplest nightgown, Beatrice strives to be as kind as
her mother, as calm as her older sister, and as good as a civil servant like
her. ama. But Beatrice always knew she was different, and she didn’t
belong to Abnegation. Carefully observing the chaos of unrelated unborn
children as they roar and jump from running trains to school, Beatrice
struggles with her emotions because, at the age of sixteen, her test of skill
and choice day has come. However, Beatrice’s test results are uncertain.
It turns out that he is one of a very rare subset of the population: a
“Divergent”. His tests show that he does not fall well into one of the
initially preset factions, but exhibits characteristics predominant in the
Erudite, Abnegation, and Dauntless clans. When her time comes to
choose, she follows her heart and chooses to be selfish but brave,
forsaking her family and choosing Dauntless. While moving clans in
itself takes fearlessness, Beatrice will immediately know that if she wants
to start with the clan, it will take more than a simple choice. With only
ten seats available and more than double the number of hopefuls, Beatrice
struggles to make her way to a relentless start -up test and discover not
only what she really did, but what really which means to be a Divergent
Critique
Divergent is Veronica Roth’s debut novel, Veronica Roth also tries to
convey her point by referring to the Bible. The Erudite, the faction
obsessed with knowledge, represents the Serpent in the Garden of Eden.
Abnegation, Beatrice’s faction, represents humanity before the fall of the
Bible - completely selfless and without ambition. He said that “people
don’t kill each other,” before the Erudite takeover begins, which the Bible
says mankind was before they even fell from grace. Since one of
Erudite’s main goals is to destroy the Abnegation (exactly the same as the
Serpent and Eve), the whole story has a strong resemblance to the story.
Veronica Roth was also a religious person, as mentioned in the
acknowledgments (488), so this is probably not a coincidence. Because
the early Christians opposed the Roman way of thinking (the weak would
be crushed) and stood alone with the Bible as their guide, the Bible (at
least for Christians) meant thinking differently. Biblical references place
the antagonists in this book in the same role as the antagonists in the
Bible, so the allusion to the Bible sends the same message that biblical
history does - that thinking is different. empowers people to control
themselves.
The final way the author attempts to convey his idea to the reader is
through the use of minor themes of the book. Throughout the jacket and
book cover, and within the book, the idea of selection is taken in a
different way than it usually is. Almost at the very beginning of the book,
Beatrice said “I will decide on a faction; I will decide the rest of my life; I
will decide to stay with my family or leave them.” The cover and covers
of the book also have phrase “ONE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM
YOU” (A choice can change you,) written in their entirety in large and
bold letters.The way choices work in modern society is for people to
make those that matter all the time.Instead of a single choice that
determines a person’s future, it is determined by hundreds of choices.The
theme of the book, which does not fit a stereotype empowers people, to
relate The choice in the book is for young people to choose between
different factions and choose the one they will spend their adult lives in.
Beatrice's Divergence prevents her from making a choice. a do - he
doesn’t fit the stereotype about how people should behave.
The other half of the theme comes later in the book. When the
people who make the choice and commit to it are controlled by the
Erudite, the unreasonable point is made that fits in leading to the loss of
power. Beatrice, on the other hand, does not live up to the standard. He is
left untouched by Erudite control, and reflects the rise in a world of
powerless man. Combining those two yields a theme.
