Divergent by Veronica Roth is filled with emotion, action and great character development. I really enjoyed the ending but it left me wanting to know more about what happens next. In the end, the members of the Dauntless faction are drugged and made to kill those in Abnegation. I think it is extremely horrible for the Erudite leaders to do this to them. At the end of the novel, you are able to read each faction’s manifesto, the things they believe in. Erudite claimed to believe in knowledge and vowed to never use that knowledge for evil, which they clearly did. It also proclaimed that knowledge should not be kept hidden from others in any circumstance. This is extremely ironic because all the Erudite did was keep knowledge and information from others, even those within their own faction. Tris points this out when she visits the Erudite compound to talk with her brother. I can’t imagine how the faction strayed so very far from their original ideology and central purpose in society. I think the author was trying to prove that most humans are corrupt and can’t be placed in one “faction” of society. The author is basically disproving her own world, and showing how it could never work. The very ending of the book is extremely disheartening. It ends with Tris, Caleb, Four, and Marcus on a train heading to the Amity faction. Both of Tris’s parents are dead, a fact which I believed was a bit glossed over in the book. When Tris first announced her mother was dead, her father and brother seemed relatively unfazed. Did growing up in Abnegation cause this lack of emotion and distance from personal feelings? The same happens when Tris’s father dies. Tris continues on her quest to find Four without a second thought, and the reader never even gets to see Caleb’s reaction to the news. I know Tris is painted as a very strong character, but I wonder if Dauntless might have changed her for the worse. We saw this lack of empathy and emotion when Al was crying late at night and Tris felt disgusted toward him and refused to comfort him. I wonder how growing up in this world changed the family dynamic as a whole. Overall, I really enjoyed this novel and I hope to read more like it.
The very ending of the book is extremely disheartening. It ends with Tris, Caleb, Four, and Marcus on a train heading to the Amity faction. Both of Tris’s parents are dead, a fact which I believed was a bit glossed over in the book. When Tris first announced her mother was dead, her father and brother seemed relatively unfazed. Did growing up in Abnegation cause this lack of emotion and distance from personal feelings? The same happens when Tris’s father dies. Tris continues on her quest to find Four without a second thought, and the reader never even gets to see Caleb’s reaction to the news. I know Tris is painted as a very strong character, but I wonder if Dauntless might have changed her for the worse. We saw this lack of empathy and emotion when Al was crying late at night and Tris felt disgusted toward him and refused to comfort him. I wonder how growing up in this world changed the family dynamic as a whole. Overall, I really enjoyed this novel and I hope to read more like it.