Zalina Alli
812

The giver by Louis Lowry  


 Everything  in Jonas's world is perfect and under control. There is no pain sorrow and abundance there are no choices society makes choices for you.When Jonas becomes twelve he is assigned one of the most important honors in society which is the job as the receiver of true pain and pleasures of life.The giver is assigned to give Jonas these memories in order for Jonas to turn them into knowledge.When Jonas receives these memories he is faced with the truth of of life and how it is sometimes never under control and life isn't as perfect as it seems.In the beginning of the book Jonas is emotionless and bland and doesn't conceive the reality of life.

  "why cant everyone see them"? "Why did they disappear"?,Jonas asked.The giver shrugged our people chose to go to sameness thats why no can see colors" Jonas is overwhelmed and doesn't know why society is the same."We gained control of many things but let go of others",said the giver."We shouldn't have!",Jonas said fiercely.This shows how Jonas is feeling infuriated about how people let go of differences like color. "You have come very quickly to that conclusion",said the giver. Jonas is having emotions about the memories. "It isn't fair what if  i wake up one day and don't have the choice of wearing a blue tunic or a red one",Jonas said. Jonas is beginning to have emotions about the memories of color he is receiving.

After the memory of pain Jonas is faced with the feeling of being damaged and helpless a feeling Jonas has never quite felt before."Jonas has never heard quite a sound before it was the sound of grief and rage. The day Jonas had been hurt while having the memory of the elephant dying was the day Jonas cried out of sorrow for the creature. He had never felt the feeling of sorrow before and in Jonas's world people weren't allowed to cry because of the perfect world Jonas was living in.He was confused and shocked by the feelings he received. 

 If people were all the same the world would have no differences no emotions no reality to it. And thats what Jonas learns.The world is filled with these things and sometimes we need to face them.  

     
     

Zalina 
Alli 812

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                       DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth  

Leaving your family and being buried in fear is a challenge that Tris faces and must overcome. Divergent is about a young girl who lives in a society where there are groups called factions. There are 5 factions:candor the faction of honesty,amity the faction of serenity and kindness, abnegation the faction of selflessness,erudite the faction of pedantry and knowledge, and lastly the dauntless, the faction of courage and bravery.Tris comes from the abnegation faction known as the stiffs who have there own nickname which is more than enough to handle. At the age of 16, each teenager from all factions has to pick a faction to stay in forever, either choosing to stay in the faction they were born in or joining another faction, leaving their families behind forever.When Tris chooses to live in a different faction she  takes on the biggest fear of her life, knowing that if she fails in her new faction she will  become faction-less. The factions were made in order for society to become a better place, and as long as everyone had a role society would be at peace. Tris is 16 she is originally from the abnegation the colorless clothing ponderous life is basically what this faction is all about. Tris has always been diverted towards the dauntless.When its time for the choosing ceremony her and her brother Caleb will soon start a different life which could also mean they never see each other or there parents again. Tris known from the stiff faction chose to be a dauntless.But Tris has a big secret she doesn't really know much about. She is divergent, meaning she can fit in to 3 factions. The test should only result in one faction given.

 In the beginning of the book Divergent Tris was weak and fragile. When training started for the dauntless it was rough knowing Eric one of the dauntless leaders in charge. Fighting the other players didn't allow Tris to get ranked high in order to not stay faction less. When asked to fight peter and Molly all Tris got out of the fight was a bloody nose. Eric was so infuriated with Tris he decided she was to become faction less but Tris didn't give up she was quick to chase after the train filled with dauntless including Eric. During the stimulation training which  allows the dauntless to face there fears  using there illusions, Tris was Divergent which meant she could easily get out of her illusions faster than others. But the other dauntless in training felt threatened by her stimulation skills so they tried to kill her. But that didn't stop Tris from completing her training she ignored the fact that the other dauntless wanted to end her life. She was strong and fearless she was becoming a dauntless. Another example of Tris being a strong character was when her father and mother died when trying to save the other factions from the erudite. Tris had to over look the fact her parents were dead and still managed to save the factions from the erudite. Tris is a strong persistent character after all shes been through.