A drastic choice is whether or not to stab someone in the eye with a butter knife. In the book Divergent by Veronica Roth, someone was stabbed in the eye. In the movie based off the book, this scene wasn’t even shown.There are some differences between the book and the movie. Stabbing someone in the eye with a butter knife was just one of the many changes made. Some of the smaller differences between the book and the movie involve the minor characters. In the book, there’s a character named Uriah. He does not play a big role. However, he is friends with the main character, Tris. Uriah barely exists in the movie. Another difference is, in the book, one person dies on the first day of training at the Dauntless compound. In the movie, however, no one dies. There are quite a few …show more content…
This is where the book’s title comes into play. Being Divergent means your brain does things differently than other people. This causes you to be tolerant to certain things. Tris is Divergent. Being Divergent is extremely “illegal” between factions, so it must be kept a secret. She finds out she’s Divergent from the aptitude test everyone must take to determine what faction they belong in. When Tris gets no evaluation answer, the test giver tells her she is Divergent and that she must keep it a secret. The leader of the Erudite faction, Jeanine Matthews, is a Divergent watcher. A Divergent watcher is someone who finds Divergents and eliminates them. Eric, the Dauntless leader, is also a Divergent watcher. They can only tell that you’re Divergent from your aptitude tests and your fear tests. They can tell by the way you solve problems and face your fears in the test. In the book, it’s obvious Tris is Divergent. She solves them the way a Divergent would, which is why they suspect her. In the movie, Four teaches her to solve them the way a Dauntless would, which makes more sense. They won’t suspect her that