Tris lives in a future vision and a post-apocalyptic view of Chicago where Tris explores and find her true identity which people are divided according into their personalities into five different factions; Abnegation (The Selfless), Amity (The Peaceful), Erudite (The Intelligent), Candor (The Honest), and the Dauntless (The Brave). Tris is a sixteen-year-old girl, born and grew up into an Abnegation family. But she doesn’t…
On account of my own experiences (Yes, I know personal experience doesn’t trump truths) within the Millennial generation. This generation sings a song that is of a different tune than the one “The Newest Greatest Generation” suggests. When reflecting on where my peers are and are headed, I see a generation that is filled with persons of high character, creativity, and open mindedness. Not to say this isn’t a generation without flaws, as we have many, but unlike Stein, I wouldn’t hesitate to label this generation as altruistic, full of fervor, and philanthropy. As a reader it was difficult for me to believe the “truths” of this article, and easy for me to accept this as another case of social ageism, the “us vs them”…
The government in Equality’s world is very controlling but also fragile. When Equality brings his invention to the house of the scholars, they reel back in fear but then also anger. This is because they can demand a lot of anything but if something happens and someone discovers a secret, the government can be overthrown with a lot of support. This type of discovery is what they fear most. The government is so afraid of any variation that they choose who goes together for unmentionable purposes. This just shows that any slight difference in the system can bring the entirety of Equality’s government. The government in Divergent is not as controlling as the one Equality has come to know and to grow up with. This is because they only suggest what faction one should go into but the individual ultimately has the choice to go into whatever faction they please. This shows it's weakness of letting individuality exist when they want everyone the same or really close to the same. They let people mingle and interact with one another some of the time though not outside of the faction. This is how they are giving people freedom and personalities rather than nothing at…
Which means you are homeless, you live on the street. If you’re lucky you'll be fed by Abnegation, they have the worst jobs of the city and people are scared of them. Just because you do not fit into a faction does not mean you should be kicked out and forced to live on the streets, this is another example of why a dystopia is wrong. As you join your new or continuing faction, you can be killed very easily. As Beatrice joined Dauntless they were threatened to be killed if they were at the bottom of the skills scoreboard, and if they challenged a leader. In the city divergents are seen as dangerous, because they can not be controlled. Each faction controls their citizens by a certain injected serum, and divergents are not affected by it. If you are divergent after your aptitude test, you are told never to tell anyone and to go with your parents faction. Being divergent is seen as dangerous and not fitting in as seen as a bad thing, everyone is in their own faction and when someone does not fit in they killed for it and that is…
The war was terrible, the whole world was destroyed. The last city left divided themselves into five factions to keep the peace. The smart ones are classified Erudite. Amity farm the land, and they are always kind. Candor value honesty, Dauntless are brave, and Abnegation are selfless. The system works because everyone knows where they belong; everyone except for Tris. In the novel Divergent, by Veronica Roth, Tris demonstrates perseverance; this is shown through how she is able to step out of her comfort zone, always remains undeterred, and can overcome obstacles.…
more torn between the worlds of their parents who grew up in a country ‘’where parental authority goes unquestioned’’ and a ‘’freedom -loving society whose aggressive anthem often is Just Do It.’’ The 1.5 generation is completely assimilated into the American society and mostly forgot about their past and root; where they came from and how they got to where they are now.…
This is both a good thing and a bad thing because they let their natural instinct to do what’s right become prominent in their thoughts but instead of helping their society become stronger they, “…walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back” (Le Guin par. 14). The ones that decide to leave the city realize that, “…they, like the child, are not free” (Le Guin par. 12). From this realization sprouts the decision for the man or woman to leave the city forever thereby turning their back on the culture that they once lived in. Though it is a good thing that the person’s conscious returns and becomes prominent in them, the argument must be raised that instead of shunning the culture, that same person could instead fight to release the child and hopefully give the child a shot at joy in…
Well I agree with the anther of individuality vs conformity. I agree with her because I also think there is a middle where teens can be who they want to be they don't have to fit in if they don't…
family of origin, become an active member of a larger society. The teen will experiment…
To begin with Joanna Chau explains who the Millennials are and then invoke to a study that compared the diversities between young people who are attending schools and colleges now, with previous two generations, regarding many aspects including valuing money, fame and many other aspects. Then she calls upon another study done by a professor at San Diego State University, which explain the behavior of Millennials. The author further explains that the behavior of the Millennials is taught and they are conditioned to put their own needs first and to focus on feeling better about themselves rather than helping others and not being selfish. Moreover, she also states how young people provides more focus on the self and less focus on the community. Supporting it with a study that found a decline in civic interest. Finally, she provides logical reasons that indicate that individualism has more harm to us than benefit. Although Joanna Chau successfully chose the ideas which support her point of view and she also conveyed her point of view by enforcing her credibility, and through the language and the usage of transitional words throughout the article, In addition to the employment of literary elements and usage of rhetorical strategies. Yet she fails to provide the readers with a balanced use of…
When in the course of life events, there comes a time when parents and grandparents need to stop controlling the teen’s life and to let them be who they want to be and let them decide on their life on their daily lives. This lead to us teens to write our declaration to let us teens decide choices in our lives, then having our parents and grandparents choose for us. This declaration shall be read to the world and help us gain independence from being over controlled by our parents, grandparents, and adults.…
I think what Gene is saying that they want to have all the fun in the world before life takes a hold of them. After Devon school will they be enlisting into the war? Wanting to live their life now before the war lives theirs? Putting their life on the line for people they don’t even know? No one depends on them now, but once they enlist the lives of everyone in their city, state, country, and maybe even world be on their shoulders. Will they be able to handle the stress of everyone’s lives on their decisions?…
In the course of recent changes to the context and content of youth transitions the notion of citizenship has come to the fore as a means of discussing young people’s move into independent membership of society. Youth is an expansive moment, and young people moving towards social majority invariably feel the need for room to nurture and explore their emergent sense of themselves as individual people. However, children and young people are often seen as immature and lack of capability to participate in adult world, they have become semi-citizen overall. In this paper, I would like to discourse the different views of children and young people’s active civic engagement and their participation in decision-making in organizations. I will address Cohen’s (2005) two views of children in this paper, which is paternal and minor theory. I will also discuss the key issues that emerge in considering either children’s or young people’s civic engagement. Lastly, I will focus on the education engagement of children and young people to better address the issues.…
Young people have a tendency not to comply with any laws when it’s come to their wellbeing. Young people always try to express their opinions and restrain from obeying their leaders which sometimes lead to a disaster result of their poor decisions in life. According to Gary Schwartz book, explain what happens in Sammy’s mind and what causes the reaction of quitting his job at the end (Schwartz 55). Therefore, the issue of young people is rebellion against their social norms is the central theme of the “A&P” john Updike story.…
Starks really makes a good point about our society. Everything seems to be who you know and how much money you have. The younger generation really takes social status in high school to the limits. To me it’s important to be open minded and have your own style, not to follow the crowd.…