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Divergent is the debut novel of American writer, Veronica Roth. The book was published by HarperCollins in 2011. The novel revolves around the dystopian world in the Divergent Universe. The setting is in a post-apocalyptic Chicago and its two main protagonists are Beatrice ‘Tris’ Prior and Tobias Easton or also known as Four. The book is the first in a trilogy that includes Insurget and Allegiant. The book was adapted into a movie which was released in March 2014. Tris is portrayed by Shailene Woodley and Four is portrayed by Theo James.

Divergent Synopsis

Divergent takes place in post-apocalyptic Chicago where the survivors of the war are divided into five factions such as Amity, Candor, Abnegation, Erudite, and Dauntless. The survivors choose which faction they join based on their dispositions. Every year, the sixteen-year-olds in the city take an aptitude test that tells them which faction suits them best. Once the test results are revealed, the teens choose which faction they want to join, they can either remain with their family’s faction or choose a different one. The teens then undergo an initiation where they are tested to determine if they fit in with their chosen faction. If they fail to pass the initiation, they are deemed Factionless and must live in poverty on the streets of the city. The book covers various themes such as identity, violence, fear, social structure, and knowledge. These themes are portrayed in various parts of the novel.

Get Divergent in Audiobook Format

Get a piece of the action and suspense by getting the Divergent download in audio format. The audio book format lets you follow Tris and Four as they go against the system in this riveting post-apocalyptic world. Follow the heroine Tris as she tries to discover who she is while listening to the audio book. The audio book is voiced to bring the world of the Divergent Series to life.

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For someone who has followed the The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins – one would agree that Mockingjay is the perfect ender on the beautifully orchestrated and intelligent novel.

Packed with brutal violence and an edgy plot, Mockingjay succeeds in every level.

For the first two books—The Hunger Games and Catching Fire — one would have the arduous guess that Katniss would end up choosing one of the two remarkable men in her life: it is either Gale, her childhood friend or Peeta, the man who was with her to the Hunger Games in twofold. Along the way, she would take out the evil president and put the wicked Hunger Games to an end. How would she do it? No one really knows. However, as a reader, one has to assume she would.

The final book is actually bigger than the expected love story. It is more than Peeta and Gale. With Mockingjay, Collins takes the reader in a different path, stripping you off the feelings faith and hope.

In the novel, Katniss comes into conclusion that she is just a “pawn” for the 13th District as she was for the colony. She also comes to understand that evil can still exist outside the colony as well.

Ever since the first two installments, it is assumed that the Hunger Games is a story of war and that to be a volunteer one still has to act as a pawn. As a pawn, the burden taken is great, and in the end, personal wars abrupt for each of the characters with each having the responsibility of doing the best that they can.

The characters in the final book make the trilogy more realistic. Katniss who brings about the success of the rebellion puts aside her feelings of anger and distrust, becoming the rebels’ Mockingjay in whatever cost.

This serial plot of her character in the series makes it more believable in a way that she already has given so much, which includes her life, right when she volunteered for Prim in the Hunger Games. In addition, one can see her as she picks up the pieces of her life as she wonders where to go in the end until she makes the final choice.

To sum it up perfectly, the whole concept of the last book is hope—the kind of hope one has to accept once you realize you already dead. And as soon you accept that, the more you will be able to finish your mission as a soldier. A soldier without mercy, sympathy or regret.

However, one may ask himself, how can you live in that kind of society? For Katniss, she kept on going.

Read about the recent movie release: www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/23/hunger-games-mockingjay-part-1-one-review

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