DIVERGENT By: Veronica Roth Characters: * Beatrice ‘Tris’ Prior (protagonist) – our stunning‚ sixteen year old. Tris comes from Abnegation‚ a faction devoted entirely to selflessness. But Tris desires a better‚ more exciting life for herself and‚ during Choosing Day‚ makes a difficult decision. Turning from her family and the only lifestyle she’s ever known‚ Tris makes a startling choice when she chooses Dauntless‚ the brave. * Tobias ‘Four’ Eaton - mysterious and dark‚ eighteen year
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Divergent (Divergent #1) by Veronica Roth CHAPTER ONE THERE IS ONE mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month‚ the day my mother cuts my hair. I sit on the stool and my mother stands behind me with the scissors‚ trimming. The strands fall on the floor in a dull‚ blond ring. When she finishes‚ she pulls my hair away from my face and twists it into a knot. I note how calm she looks
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emotions because at sixteen years old‚ her aptitude test and choosing day have arrived. However‚ Beatrice’s test results are leading to no conclusion or definite result. She is one of a very rare subset of the population of dystopian chicago: a Divergent. Her tests show that she does not neatly fall into one factions but displays traits paramount in Erudite‚ Abnegation and Dauntless clans. When the time arrives to choose a faction‚ she follows her heart and chooses to be selfish but brave abandoning
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Tazrian Maliha Muhiba Tahir English 201 17 June 2010 Miscommunication in Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants.” The story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is described through the conversations of a couple which proves the miscommunication and lack of understanding between the couple. In my paper I am going to show how the relationship between the American and the girl failed to be a good relationship due to this lack of communication and understanding.
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Examining the Characteristics of Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games In typical examples of literature‚ women are generally presented as dependent and weak‚ requiring the assistance of men to save them. However‚ in The Hunger Games‚ Suzanne Collins presents a female protagonist who breaks the stereotype of these women; Katniss Everdeen is an independent‚ logical‚ yet doubtful character. To begin with‚ Katniss is independent. Ever since her father died and her mother went through
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Divergent Boundaries Speech The diverging plates below us are moving everyday; reshaping our world‚ slowly‚ but surely. These divergent boundaries are being studied around the world and they teach us about our evolved world‚ and its continuing evolution today. There are two types of divergent boundaries‚ the oceanic and the continental. These occur where their names have defined‚ within the oceanic crust and the continental crust. Both begin at the movement of the convection currents‚ which push
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to you today is called Divergent by Veronica Roth. The genre of the book is science fiction‚ dystopian society‚ action and adventure. You guys are probably wondering what does divergent mean? Or what does it mean being a divergent? Firstly‚ divergent means tending to be different or develop in different directions. Secondly‚ being a divergent is very different. It is different because the world they live in is based on having each person fit into a faction and since Divergents don’t‚ they are more
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The Divergent series by Veronica Roth centralizes on a society with faction‚ separating every person by their personality. There are five factions: Erudite which is where the intelligent people are‚ Abnegation which values the need of others over the need of themselves‚ Candor which values honesty‚ Amity are the kind ones they value peace‚ Dauntless they are the soldiers of all factions they protect the city of Chicago‚ there is also the factionless they are the ones that don’t fit in anywhere basically
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Q1 - In the film Divergent‚ a character I admire is Beatrice Prior or Tris. I admire her specifically because she is incredibly strong willed‚ brave‚ and dislikes showing weakness. This film is set in a futuristic Chicago‚ where the community is divided into 5 factions. Abnegation the selfless‚ Dauntless the brave‚ Eridute the intelligent‚ Condor the honest and Amity the peaceful. When all teenagers reach the age of 16‚ they are required to stay in the faction they were born into‚ or transfer to
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PART 1: Question 1 Describe the differences between divergent evolution‚ convergent evolution and parallel evolution and provide an example for each type of evolution. Divergent evolution occurs when change from a common ancestral species increases as time passes‚ leading to a speciation event; that is‚ the evolution of two new species. Convergent evolution on the other hand differs from divergent evolution because it is the development of similar features separately in unrelated groups of organisms
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