decides your friends.
ONE CHOICE
defines your beliefs.
ONE CHOICE
determines your loyalties forever.
ONE CHOICE
CAN TRANSFORM YOU. "
Just think of deciding your whole life on your own. Having that ONE DAY wherein you will decide to go on with what you've accustomed to be or curve into another road that you yourself doesn't know where it'll lead you. You have sixteen years to weigh the pros and cons of your decisions. To consider your own happiness and what would be the effect to the other people around. And that's the thing I had realized upon reading the DIVERGENT. You create your OWN CHOICE, and it also creates WHO YOU WILL BECOME.
I finished the book for two days only during the semestral vacation. It made me focus and fully understand the whole story. I can say that this is a pretty nice story and the twists are also unpredictable, though it may have some dull scenes (but just a few, you won'y even recall them).
The story could be a bit based in reality for some aspects, since it talks about the division of characteristics most human possess - Honesty, Intelligence, Selflessness, Bravery, and Peacefulness. They are divided into FACTIONS namely: Abnegation (denies selfishness), Amity (denies aggression), Candor (denies duplicity), Dauntless (denies cowardice) and Erudite (denies ignorance). Children reaching 16 years old got an option to choose what faction they'll continue to live. What faction do they want to commit their lives with and stays there as their home. It could be considered as a betrayal if one chooses to transfer to another faction rather to where they grew up to, but it is not prohibited to do so. And for them to fully make up their choices, they will undergo an aptitude test wherein they will encounter a series of simulations for them to know what factions suit them the most based on the results.
The story focus mainly on the female protagonist - Beatrice Prior, an Abnegation by birth who transfer to the Dauntless faction but got an 'inconclusive' result in the aptitude revealing her true identity as a DIVERGENT. A divergent possess not just one faction characteristic that could single out one person to what faction he deserves. Just like Beatrice, she possess an Abnegation-Dauntless-Erudite characteristics. Also, being a divergent also help them to become fully aware during the simulations, making it easier for them to manipulate and control it. But being a divergent is dangerous, so it has become a challenge for her to keep it to herself, not to let anyone know her true identity.
Well of course I won't be telling the whole story. I actually don't have any opinion. I guess it made me excited to read the next book of this trilogy. And reading the initiation process that Tris have gone through in the Dauntless made me somewhat a fan of action movies. Well, since their faction portrays bravery, the initiation process isn't really that easy; some of them got factionless while some, for a worst case scenario ended up dead (like Al).
But of course there is still a pinch of a love story in here, between the protagonists (both a Divergent) Four/Tobias and Tris. Four (his nickname since he only has four fears) is the trainer for the initiates and apparently got attached to Tris. :"> I also admired the love of family between Tris and his brother Caleb.
Can't wait to read the 2nd book, Insurgent. Now that Dauntless and Abnegation was destroyed, what would happen to Tris and her family? And will her being a Divergent cause problems to them in the future?
Read More
