Divergent- Veroncia Roth
Veronica Roth is the author of the Divergent trilogy, which features 'Divergent' and 'Insurgent'.The final book is to be released in the fall of 2013. She received her degree in creative writing from Northwestern University. She has received the Goodreads 2011 choice award. In April 2012 she sold the film rights to Summit
Entertainment and the first movie is to be released in 2014. Currently she resides in Chicago.
Entertainment and the first movie is to be released in 2014. Currently she resides in Chicago.
Synopsis
The story is set in the future in North America where they have recently been through and are still going through an apocalypse. Due to the violence and disorganization of the people the government orders everyone to be assembled into 5 factions: Abnegation, sworn off self-indulgent striving for selflessness; Erudite, search for knowledge to grow; Candor, always speak their mind and tell the truth; Amity, peaceful; Dauntless, courageous and strong. When all the children turn 16 and finish school they take an aptitude test to see which faction they fit into best. They receive one Faction choice including their own. When you choose your Faction you are no longer allowed to see your old family if you choose to switch factions. When Beatrice Prior, the main character in Abnegation takes her aptitude test, her results are inconclusive, putting her in the category of Divergent. If anyone found that out though she would be in terrible danger. So to cover it up the test distributor gives her a false result. Beatrice chooses Dauntless and soon finds she fits in well. She even begins to fall for one of the older leaders who teaches her group the ways of Dauntless. They call him Four. The book shows the adventures they go on to keep Beatrice safe from the government.
Characters
Beatrice 'Tris' Prior is the main character in the series. The story follows her adventures from changing factions to finding out why being divergent is such a feared thing. Tobias 'Four' Eaton is the love interest to Tris. He is also from Abnegation and is the son of the Abnegation leader, Marcus, who was abusive to Tobias and his mother. He is nicknamed Four because of the last step in the Dauntless initiation where you face your fears in the dreamscape. Tobias is extremely protective of Tris, but is very mysterious so Tris does not find out until later how protective he is. Caleb Prior is Tris's older brother. For his faction he chooses Erudite over Abnegation. Tris and her brother have a very close relationship so it was hard for both of them to switch factions, especially since Erudite is the enemy of Abnegation. Tris's father is one of the leaders of Abnegation so he put a lot of pressure on them to stay in their faction. Along the way we also meet some of the Dauntless members Tris meets while training and many others from different factions as well.
Books To Look For
Possible Book 3 title page
The second book in this series is Insurgent and was released in May 2012. The next book is scheduled to come out in the fall of 2013 and is predicted to be called Convergent. Veronica Roth has also written 'Free Four', a short story where Tobias tells of the knife-throwing scene from Chapter 13 from his perspective, and 'Shards and Ashes', a story of the world after the apocalypse where survivors dodge chemical warfare and cruel gods. If you liked Divergent you will most likely be interested in 'The Hunger Games', see top of page for information page. You may also like 'Matched' and 'Once', see top of page for information. All these books have the same story line: the world has gone into mayhem and the government, in efforts to erase the damage, has to come up with harsh customs. All of these stories feature a strong female lead.