The Selfishness Of the Non-Selfless People

Jada Joseph

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                I just finished the book, Divergent, by Veronica Roth, and the ending of the book really surprised me. Janice, a woman from the Erudite faction, is the leader of a disaster plan to completely try to wipe out the Abnegation faction. She is doing this because Abnegation poeple are the only people allowed to rule in the governemnt, that being because their faction values selflessness so while leading the government they think about what is best for the people instead of being selfish and only thinking about themselves. Janice thinks that the smartest people should lead the government because they are the people who know exactly what to do. Janice did not take on this project alone. Eric, one of the many leaders of the Dauntless faction, was also apart of her plan. Janice thought that if she got Eric to side with her, he would help wipe out the Abnegation people. Wipe out meaning clear them of the 5 factions making there only be 4. In a much simpler tense, he would help her by making the people of the Dauntless kill the Abnegation people.
                   
                  I think that Janice is very selfish because she does not honestly want to lead the government. No, I think that she just wants to be in control of everything. She is probably in control of her life now and she wants more. She wants power and she thinks that leading the government will give that to her. She is really only thinking about herself, especially when it regards Eric. Janice is using Eric to her abilities and I bet that in the next book, she might drop him like a hot tamale. That is an act of selfishness which is something that would be frowned upon in the Abnegation faction.

                  I'm not being a hypocrite by taking about Janice's selfishness. I am selfish too sometimes but Janice's selfishness resulted in her trying to take over her world. With my selfishness, I can't name a time when I was selfish and it affected a group of people in a bad way. I might be selfish and make myself something without asking my mom if she wants anything but those are minor things. Like when people tell little white lies. Selfishness is not something you are born with, its not a gene that has already developed inside you. Selfishness is something people develop by being around the wrong people. in a prior assembly, guest starring the coach of the Brooklyn Nets basketball team Avery Johnson, Mr. Johnson continuously said say yes to practice and adults but say no to the wrong people. Selfishness is a characteristic of  the wrong people. Of course, no one can be perfect. You might never believe that you are but everyone is selfish in some way or another at some point of your life. I just have a problem with Janice's great deal of selfishness that comes with all the idea of her attacking them.

Tris's Changes Throughout Divergent

     The main character Tris in the book Divergent by Veronica Roth changes a lot throughout the book. Tris changes a lot in her physique as well as in the way she thinks. Despite being small in stature, Tris manages to become very headstrong by the end of the book and think for herself. Here are a few ways that Tris changes from beginning to the end of the book.

     One way that Tris changes throughout the book is that she becomes very independent in the way that she thinks and acts. During the Dauntless Initiation Tris was telling herself that she has to stick up for herself and she can't be pushed around by the bigger initiates. By the end of the book, Tris is confident and she knows that know one will try and mess with her. This shows me that because Tris became hard in the way that she thought during the Dauntless Initiation, it helped her out in by the end of the book where she had to put her skills and hardness to the test when she was fighting for her life. This is just one way that Tris changes mentally throughout the book.

     Another way that Tris changes throughout the book is in her physical appearance. In the beginning of the book Tris was skinny and small and incapable of defending herself. After the Dauntless Initiation Tris looked at herself in the mirror and she liked what she saw. She noticed that she had more muscle and she looked like someone not to be reckoned with. I think Tris liked the way she looked because being strong made her feel like she was very powerful and she could defend herself in any situation, which is something that she had a problem with in the beginning of the book. Tris's changes in her physical appearance helped her throughout the book because they made her have a tougher mindset as well as having a stronger body, which was a deadly combination against anyone trying to mess with her.

     In conclusion, I think that Tris's changes throughout the book helped her from beginning to end because it helped her get through some hard struggles, such as her mother and father dying. I think that if Tris didn't change the way that she did throughout the book, that the end would've been completely different because she wouldn't have had the same values as she did if she didn't change. All in all, Tris's changes from beginning to the end of the book were all beneficial to her.

how are beatrice and katniss slimar how they differ.

In the book diverant by veronica Roth and hunger games by Susan Collins both main characters differ from each other. They also have slmialirites. They both go threw changes,from beginning to end. Some slimarites that Beatrice and Katniss both share is that they live in a distopian world. Each of the governments really show in both books that they don't care about the people in it. Another slimaritie they both share is they both change in their books. In the beginning they are both worried and nervous. When Beatrice is in the choosing ceremony, she isn't all happy. Shes worried and feeling not to well about leaving her family and joining the dauntless. Katniss is the same way, she scared about leaving her family. And also joining the hunger games. Also they are simlair to each other because they both get over come there fears and become brave and talented souls. In conclusion these are reasons why these two seem simlair. Even though they are simlair in ways they both differ. Beatrice's governoment is a concil of 50 people and then they are all sepreated into differnert factions based on their personalities. Most family's in hunger games are often poor, including katniss family them self. some own businesses but not to many. When kids are 16 (both boys and gilrls) they are choseen into the hunger games. This is one reason they differ. Another way they differ is by their motivation. Katniss doesn't get as easliy motivated as beatice. Which to me is huge diffenence. In conclusion these two characters are the same in differnet ways, but also diffenert for many reason. But those reasons above convince me why, they are.

The Erudite, Pure Genius... or Pure Evil...?

  The Erudite are a faction full of inteligent people that belive that ignorance is what causes conflict. They are extremely smart in a number of different areas: Math, Science, ect. Are they pure genius? They are responsible of most of the technology the their faction and other factions use. Without the Erudit. There wouldn't be the simmulations. The other factions would lose many of the technogy they rely on and use.

  Although... do they not have evil inside of them? They created the simulation that made an entire faction turn against one of their fellow almost defensless factions. They made them kill innocent people without them even knowing what was happening.

  Imagin being in the position of the Daunless. You go to sleep one night. Then you wake up. Then you realize that you're not where you were when you went to sleep and you have a gun in your hand. You then find out that you were responsible for the deaths of who knows how many innocent Abnegation. How would you feel if that had happened? That's how the entire Dauntless faction had expirienced when they had woken up.

  Also, imagine that you were divergent, and that you were in Dauntless. You do exactly what Tris had done. You follow the rest of the Dauntless, but then you do one thing wrong and people know right away that you are an enemy. Just like in the story, what if one of your friends had started to come after you? Shoot them before they shoot you?

  The Erudite had put the entire Dauntless faction in that position. They had basicly destroyed two factions factions just to make the government allow other faction in the government, but after what they had doone. Is there really an organized government anymore? Everything has changed now between the factions. The government that was supposed to be a "Utopia" was all ruined by the Erudite and there "wonderful" plan to attack the Abnegation. Why would they throw two factions into chaos just for that? Was there something they were hiding? O.o

What's the point????

Divergent By Veronica Roth

bravery |ˈbrāv(ə)rē|

noun

courageous behavior or character.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense [bravado] ): from French braverie or Italian braveria, based on Latin barbarus (see barbarous ).

 To be dauntless is to show fearlessness and determination. So those that show an especially strong amount of determination are picked off? It doesn't make much sense. Also, if Four has Four fears and hasn't made any changes, is the 2nd and 3rd parts of the initiation flawed? If the only point of the fear test is too help you lose your fears, and it doesn't work with everyone, should it be mandatory? The only thing that makes more sense, is when Tris overhears the Erudite plans for the war, it means the Erudite want to remove anyone smart or cunning enough to figure out the plot, my one question is why now? 


Also if the Erudite were just going to turn the dauntless into soldier-zombies, why didn't they do this the first time Abnegation wasn't being fair. The only answer is that this war plan has been in the works for years, and the dauntless only now have enough manpower to do the takeover.


I think that there has to be more, some underlying cause completely unrelated to the rest of their complaints. I'm betting that Abnegation isn't as clean and innocent as we and Tris think it is. I think that Erudite may be the bad guy here, but unfortunately true goodness seems a bit impossible in this world, we see that in the lying behind Candor.


In all, Dauntless isn't fair to to it's initiates, Erudite's plans are strange, and Abnegation might be flawed.

-drat/chase

Facing Fears.

In the book divergent by Veronica Roth is based on how the government was destroyed according to what their perspective was. The main character is Tris she can manipulate the simulation. She has an advantage because she’s divergent; being divergent is that they can’t figure out what faction they belong to because they have characteristics of other factions. As Tris has enemies who want to kill her. The decisions that she has to make are difficult because she doesn’t know who to trust. We can say that she may be courageous for helping Four with his fears. But she has an advantage on knowing how to manipulate the simulation.  By being able to do this she has more of an advantage because she knows how to control her fear.

When the protagonist is in Four’s simulation she doesn’t experience fear because it’s not her own fear. Four only has four fears but those four fears don’t leave or more fears come. Tris helps Four because it’s easier for her to face the fear because it’s not something she can relate to.  It’s easier to face a fear you can’t relate to, that statement can be argued. When Tris has to experience someone else’s fears, the fear of being kidnapped becomes one of her own. But on the other hand she helped Four with his fears. Comment bellow whether or not someone else’s fears can be your own.

This connects to the real world because even the toughest person can be the most terrified or can have fears you never imagined. Fear doesn’t come out of nowhere, controlling your own fears can be hard but how would you control someone else’s fears? Teenagers these days seem to care about nothing but in reality they are. They may be able to control it or maybe make it disappear by doing stuff they shouldn’t be doing. But fears of others can be related to our own. For example the fear if dying or seeing a loved one die is a fear we all face but how we face it.

is being different bad?

So far in the book Tori tells Beatrice that being divergent is dangerous as her brother was divergent and his faction found out about that. He was thrown into the chasm and they said it was sucide. But Tori knew her brother so she immediately knew they killed him. Also Beatrice overheard someone talking about finding all the Divergent rebels. I think that being different is not a bad thing. It's can be a good thing. 

all the faction symbols. abnegation, candor, amity, erudite, and dauntless.

In Beatrice's world being different from any of the factions was dangerous. But why is that? It's because they pose a threat to their "perfect" world. People who are divergent can manipulate the stimulations they sometimes give them. During the second part of training Beatrice was in the stimulation for 3 minutes. Accoeding to Four that's 3 times faster than the other initiates. Four warned her to control her seflessness impulses.



In the the world people are scared of those who are different from them. They don't try to get rid of them but they talk about them and ignore them. And that causes a lot of emotinal damge. What I don't get is why are people afraid of those who are different? What's so bad about them? I think that people are wired to be afraid of thosse who are different.