By the end of the novel, we see that Tris has learned so much in just a couple of months. She has grown up and has become a young woman. She has exoerienced love for the first time and she has faced her parents death. Althoguh by the end of the novel circumstances seem appalling for Tris, I believe she has learned to take what she needs from people around her and she has learned to overcome the cruelty of her environment.

I have chosen this picture because it shows the city in ruins and it shows the darkness within the city. But at the same time we see the sun coming up and for me this represents hope. Characters in this novel have suffered a lot and by this time they have learned to leave fears and insecurity aside and learned to be tough. But I am sure that their aim is just to be achieve justive and be safe and happy.

There comes a moment in which Tris feels lonely and doesn't recorgnize herself. She looks at herself in the mirror but the person she sees is not the one she remembers from the times in which she was only allowed to look at herself in the mirror every three months. Not only her appearance has changed: although she feels lonely, now she feels stronger and the setting that affected her so much now is becoming her home. She no longer feels that the awful situations she has been though affect her in the same way. She has learned to overcome her fears and feels stronger. I believe that she is becoming a Dauntless.

Her change surprised me because I though she wouldn't overcome the unfriendliness of the situations and setting so easily but she did and she even started taking advantage of her skills and courage. I like the way she has overcome such an unsympathetic environment.

In the arena Tris has to confront her own fears and prove to herself that she can fight and that she is strong. The arena in described as a place in which anyone can become your enemy, specially in the process of initiation during which initiates cannot decide who they are going to fight against.

As we go on reading, we can get to feel the warlike atmosphere around the arena. And many of the unsympathetic comments made by the instructors make initiates feel even more vulnerable. Ir seems like although every Dauntless has been through this process you are on tour own and have to protect yourself.  

Tris learns that she will have to train very hard physically and mentally to pass the initiation process. At the beginning the feels very scared and insecure but when she starts trining she discovers that she is not so bad at it and that encourages her. Although setting gest more and more hostile and competitive because initiates know they will be ranked according to their performance, she starts enjoying it and feels she can really do it. She enjoys the rush of adrenaline that she feels when she truest her skills and her intuition.

Jumping off trains was something unexpected for me. I thought the setting would be even more hostile. I thought they would have to kill some kind of creature to move around the city and that that was the reason for them hiding under ground. I believe it's the beast means of transport the author could have thought of considering the city in which they live.

When all the initiates stand on solid ground again, Lauren and Four lead us down a narrow tunnel. the walls are made of stone, and the ceiling slopes, so I feel like I'm descending into the heart of the earth. The tunnel is lit at long intervals, so in the dark space between each dim lamp, I fear that I am lost until a shoulder bumps mine. In the circles of light I am safe again. (Ch 7, page 61)     

Dauntless headquarters are a strange and dangerous place for Beatrice. This is a predictable reaction from an insecure young girl. And the change in setting was something I was waiting for!!! Specially something like this underground, dark and mysterious!

Beatrice Prior has always felt different from the rest of her family. She lives in a society divided in five different factions. She was raised in the Abnegation faction, where she was taught to be selfless. The other factions are: Candor (the honest), Erudite (the intelligent), Amity (the peaceful), and Dauntless (the brave). Despite her upbringing, she has never felt comfortable with being selfless. She is conflicted by her feelings of loneliness.

I close my eyes and picture my mother sitting at the dinner table in silence. Is it a lingering tint of selflessness that makes my throat tighten at the thought of them is it selfishness, because I know I will never be their daughter again?  (Ch 6, page 63)

At this point Beatrice feels conflicted about her future. She knows that the comfort and safety of her parents' house will disappear after she makes the choice she will do. My first reaction to the setting described in the first chapters of the novel was that her house and her life in Abnegation was so safe and quiet that it was even boring for her. She saw herself as different from the rest and needed a place where she could be free.

Welcome to the Young Adult Lit Program. I will present  novel that deals with a dystopian future. You may be wondering what you will find here... one thing is for sure: dark streets and a lot of uncertainty! Shall we?

Hey! Welcome to the Blog Project 365! This is a space created mainly to connect you to an amazing world created by Veronica Roth. Ready? Name: Divergent, Destination: future dystopian Chicago, Limits to our imagination: none!! Enjoy! :D