Divergent By Veronica Roth

Sometimes in life people are faced with difficult decisions and no one to help them make their choice. That is the situation that Tris is put in at the beginning of Divergent by Veronica Roth. She is forced to decide which group she wants to spend the rest of her life with. Once she decides, she can not back out. After she makes the choice, her life is changed forever. In this journal, I will be visualizing, evaluating, and predicting.
First I will be visualizing the scene where they have to make their decisions. It is described as a circle of people from all five of the different houses and in the middle there are five bowls. Each bowl is filled with a substance to represent one of the houses: “I will cut into my hand and sprinkle my blood into the faction I choose” (Roth 1). When the man in charge calls her name she needs to walk to the middle of the group. The man will present her with a knife. She then needs to cut open her hand and hold it over the bowl of the group that she chooses. I imagine this being a very intimidating environment. It would be very scary to have to make the decision of your life surrounded by older people. This scene would add a lot of pressure to the choice. The second reading strategy I will be using will be evaluating.
Did Tris make the correct choice in choosing the Dauntless house. She grew up in a different house, but when it became time for her to make her choice she had a situation. She was raised as a Abnegation but did not agree with some parts of their culture. The Abnegation people are known as extremely selfless. They also do not do anything dangerous or exciting. Tris knows that she wants to do exciting things in her life. She wants to live life on the edge not in boring patterns: “I am selfish, I am brave”(Roth 47). She decides to go to the Dauntless house and I think she made the right choice. She needs to follow her dreams, not what her family wants. This leads into my