Reading Response #3 Divergent

Reading Response #3 Divergent

         In my Previous response I told you about the Dauntless initiation procedure, and how Tris is doing overall. Now she is starting her next part in training, the mental side. This is where she is flourishing and other initiates are starting to take notice. which is not necessarily a good thing.

 

         While Tris is on her way back she is attacked by three people, lucky for her before the assailants can kill her she is saved by another Dauntless leader named Four, he is also the one that has been testing her. This is the part where Tris and Four's love story begins as well. Tris stayed with Four that night and that is also when you learn a lot about him. Four is also a Divergent, but maintains and hides it very well. His real name is Tobias Eaton, he is the abused son of Marcus Eaton. Marcus is one of the leaders of Abnegation. He is also one of Tobias's fears. Four begins to help Tris with her training, he is called Four because he only has four fears during his test, "Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it" I really liked this quote, because even though Four fears basically nothing he is still humble about it.

 

          Coming up in my reading is that Tris will have to perform her simulation in front of the Dauntless leaders and if they find out she is Divergent, they will kill her, or possibly do tests on her. I'm scared for Tris, but I believe Four has helped her enough to hide the fact she is Divergent.

                

          I chose the picture below, because this is the attack on Tris, and this is how Tris and Four start off their relationship. This is a very important part, because I feel if this didn't happen Tris and Four wouldn't have fallen in love.

 

 

 

 

Reading Response #2 Divergent

Reading Response #2 Divergent

 

 

       I last left you off with Tris basically jumping to her death in my last blog. Now she has begun her training to become a dauntless. I started off reading this quote from Eric (Dauntless leader),  “You chose us. Now we have to choose you.” The top twenty are the only ones who make the cut. They choose ten from the Dauntless born side and ten from the faction switcher side. If you do not make the cut you have to live with the factionless, which is basically you become homeless with nothing. Your mental, physical and even emotional skills are tested for this. It's mostly just fighting and seeing how you react to certain situations. Tris is unfortunately the weakest physically of the trainees, but her mental strength is very tough. This is also what might get her killed. It's apparently a bad thing to be divergent; I haven't quite figured out why, but the few people that know what she is, tell her to never speak of this.

 

 

 

          Tris was able to see her mother when the family from the previous faction came to visit. I guess her father is still upset about her switching because he did not come to visit her. Tris's mother also finds out that Tris is divergent, and like the others tells her never to speak of it because she could be killed.

 

      At this point in the book I'm severely hooked because I want to know what a divergent is and why it is bad to be one. I have a feeling Tris would like to know as well.

     

      I chose the picture below to basically summarize how Tris did during her physical training (fighting)

 

 (As you can see not too good..)