Did you know that 129, 864, 880 books have been published in recorded history? Well, I think that one of those 129 million books should be added to our St. Gregory’s Library shelves. I would like to convince you to add the book Divergent, by Veronica Roth, to the shelves of our library. I believe that it is a reasonable idea that this book should be added to the collection as if you have not already noticed, the books for tween (Year 5 & 6) readers are rather limited in our Library. Divergent should be available to Years 5 & 6 students to read.
As you see societies that are based on the same idea are always share differences and similarities between all of them. How the people of these societies deal with their situations and what they do during the day shows the differences in them. In Anthem, you see a society that the government has total control over and the people have no control over anything that happens and they are on a set schedule and they are just seen as workers and nobody is different. While in Divergent people are allowed to choose their future and they have some say in life and they aren’t just seen as workers they actually have a meaning where they come from. Looking at both of them based around the same thing shows the difference in government control and how people
The novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger describes the narrator, Holden Caulfield, as an adolescent with many interesting views on society. The narrator has a lot of misplaced rages. When Stradlater and Holden were talking about a girl, named Jane, Stradlater went on a date with, after hearing that his friend has certain relations with this girl he got up off the bed and tried to punch him (Salinger 43). When Holden was younger he had known Jane when he was younger there was no justifiable reason for Holden to attack Stradlater. Holden dealt with the situation in a violent manner because he had built up rage from that conversation.
Chapter 1-15 Four is a Divergent which is a variation of every skill He is Dauntless, Amity,Erudite, and Candor. The people of the the world fear the Divergent they think they are a threat to the society. The people who scan and put the kids through the simulation to figure out what faction you belong to are unpermitted to give up the information even if they are Divergent. Tobias Eaton was Four's real name and he was Divergent and he knew it for a while and so did his father and also his mother.
Blood comes up throughout the novel. Blood represents both life and death. Blood also has a connection with adulthood. Blood represents the pain that she feels but cannot speak, her blood is the proof that she has been injured. This association with bleeding is upsetting when Melinda's mother reacts dismissively and costly when she sees that her daughter has been hurting herself.
Statistics state that teens have stopped reading the common stories like, Twilight or the famous Harry Potter. Instead dystopian stoires have taken the attention and teens are beginning to read the dark dystopian littature. Anthem shows a huge part of indivulism, giving many reasons to how the popularity of dytopian litature realtes to teens. It very much shows the idea of teens being indivuals and becoming their own person. Divergent explains alot about dysobeying and being different than other and both show the same moral of teens today.
This paper examines both Jean-Jacques Rousseau and James Madison remark concerning ‘ factions ’ as the potential destructive social force to the society. To layout and examine, this paper will first outline and discuss on Rousseau’s understanding of factions in The Social Contract,and Madison’s discussion on factionalism in the Federalist Papers 10.But there are many component surrounded with their view’s on ‘factions’,so it is important to consider together. Firstly,I will consider the definition and the element surrounded with their view on factions. With regard to Jean-Jacques Rousseau in The Social Contract,he believes that the society can only function to the extent that people have interest in common.
Have you ever readed a story and it felt so vivid? Sarah Orne Jewett is the author of A White Heron, which was written in 1886, first published by Houghton, and was about how the snowy great white heron was hunted for its feathers, almost leading to the extinction of the species. Matt Twain was the author of The Notorious Jumping Frog, written in 1865, and was about tale of a man who bets on anything that his frog can out jump a stranger's frog. Theses American authors use regional details to make the events and themes of a narrative come to life for readers by using colloquial language, symbolism, and figurative language. Colloquial language is a familiar conversation; not formal or literary.
It is crazy to think how pop culture can point to the things it works so hard to reject, but in the case of Divergent by Veronica Roth, parallels between it and the gospel abound. Divergent is set in a dystopian Chicago in which the citizens are divided into 5 factions; the brave, the selfless, the intelligent, the honest and the kind. The story follows Tris Prior, a sixteen year old girl who realizes her Divergence, or possession of characteristics of more than one faction. The novel and film adaption of Divergent include many similarities to the gospel, notably the emphasis on a choice of commitment, the concept that we need more than one characteristic to grow, that salvation is brought about through sacrifice, and that humankind is at its heart, evil.
While there is an array of diverse sub-themes, there are three dominant central themes related to blood that I continually encountered this semester: conflict, identity, and misfortune. Ironically, these three themes happen to encompass the “makeup” of our humanity. First off is a unit focused on blood related to conflict. Notice that many of the works containing violence are actually not in this section (“The Bloody Chamber,” “Bloodchild,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” &
In “Divergent” the theme was to follow your heart despite the consequences. Districts and Factions themselves are completely different as to how they are portrayed in
Typically, there would be something original (a place), that would look dull, futuristic and the natural world be banished. Dystopian settings are usually more electronic than usual because it is occurring in real life, which gives ideas to the creators. In the world that Divergent is set in, they are too, shut from the outside world. This pattern also occurs in Hunger Games. They have electric fences to prevent anyone from exiting their district.
Any decision in life all comes down to the choices made and the path favored, if chosen a different path than expected, it will transform their life. The choice chosen will define their life and it will tell them who they truly are. Divergent is a novel about a society split up into five factions, each faction is dedicated to a different virtue. Each citizen may choose between the faction their family belongs to or change it up, for the rest of their life. Through the novel Divergent, Veronica Roth explores the theme of survival in a dystopian society using the character Tris’ unique talents and intelligence to enable her to have to fight to survive and keep her identity a secret which causes everyone to believe that she can not be trusted and is dangerous.
You don't choose your family; they are God's gift to you, as you are to them. My family is my strength and weakness, my wealth and privilege and the love of them and their admiration is much more important than everything. Without loyalty, the world wouldn’t be the same, people would backstab one another and people wouldn’t trust each other, as a result of the lack of loyalty between the people. From reading Antigone, I realized that loyalty was a very essential argument that came in many various forms; such as expressing loyalty to the family and to respect and honor the state or country.
It does not need to be blood related in order to be a family. Family is home, they are the ones who gives you unconditional love. They are the people who comforts you towards difficulties in life. The ones who I can count on in times of love problem. Family, the people whom I call my world, my world because they are the people who guides me taught me how to walk and talk when I was
