Wednesday, December 11, 2013

The Divergence in Allegient

I am finally going to start talking about the book Allegient. I have only read around 100 pages so i'm not very far. However, extremely important events have happened. The events have been insane, they range from: People that are supposed to be dead being alive,  realizing the lies in society, knowing now that a group of people has been watching you your whole life, and worst of all that the people watching never really interviened no matter if someone was dying or not. Most of the main characters began to learn that if they arent Divergent they have damaged genes. They were missing certain traits from their lack of good genetics. If they werent brave , they became Amity (the peaceful).  Why were they killing off the Divergent? Why wouldnt they want to keep the ones with the genes that were in tact? Did they know about the genetics of the people before the faction leaders started to kill the Divergent? They say that Divergence is dangerous. That the Divergent can defy the system and they cant be controlled. There are so many questions about Divergence that havent been answered. Can you think of any questions you have about being Divergent?

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Symbolism and importance

In the book divergent, as well as Insurgent, I think the colors of the factions may be representative. The main character Beatrice was born into the Abnegation faction which is gray and later moved to Dauntless which is black. The two colors are closely related and often reffered to together. This shows how closely related bravery and selflessness truly are. You have to be brave to be selfless and risk your own life for someone else. Also red yellow and blue are often colors that are together. They are primary colors to represent the other three factions of amity, candor and erudite. These factions are strongly linked together because they are peace, honesty and intelligence. Honesty and inteligents are both factors of peace. However when Black, red, yellow, gray, and blue there will always be an ugly color because the colors will clash.
In insurgent that is exactly what happedned. The colors clashed. The personalities clashed. The factions don't mix and neither do their colors. The faction system was destroyed by the individual thoughts and actions of people. Some want factions and some want to be a part of all of them. This caused WAR.