My favorite book is Divergent, or the main character Tris. The main reason why I like the book is that it’s very different from what I usually read. The dystopian genre which is popular now of days is’t my type of read. The reason is that typical it is that in those books it seem to follow the same plot and in the end it’s sad ending and happy. Though I like those ending in other genres but dystopian it doesn’t seem to grab me.
So when I was placed in my group to read it, me being an open person to everything that includes books. I did and to my surprise it was enjoyable and made me rethink about lead female character. Tris is different from your average lead one which are either too girly or to much acting like a guy. That in the end they seem less realist and more unreliable. Though Tris seem to a good mixture of both types and it seems like a teenage trying to find who she is. A good quote was
“Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that people do evil things and that desperation leads them to darker places than they ever imagined. I swear she exists, and she hurts for the repentant boy I see in front of me.
But if I saw her, I wouldn't recognize her.”
“People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.”
I can relate to this quote a lot and she is so reliable and she seems to be the person I want to be. She has courage and confidence to do what she did, leaving her family, going through hazing in her faction. I believe she is a good role model to show what really going in the world in teenagers.
Here my group video trailer we made in that class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAXPiwjWDzQ&feature=player_embedded
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