Character Connections

Beatrice (or Tris when she joins the Dauntless faction) is the main character of Divergent. Her personality is very clear to the reader while finding out hints about it throughout the text. Some of her personality traits include being a leader, risk-taking, confident (for the most part), and spontaneous. Tris really reminds me of Katniss from the Hunger Games trilogy. Like Katniss, Tris/ Beatrice cares about her family a lot, even though she left them to make herself happier. Both young women are willing to take chances, this is represented when Tris jumps the mountain to get across to the Dauntless homes. Both Katniss and Tris are leaders also by not doing what the crowd does, and standing out from the rest of the people they interact with. An example of this is when Tris is the first to jump down into the Pit even though she is terrified. Although both characters are faced with challenges that are out of their reach (Katniss in the arenas and Tris being very skinny with not much muscle), they are both able to overcome these challenges and succeed at what they are trying to do.

Currently in Divergent, Beatrice/ Tris just got a tattoo and is learning how to fight. This is preparing her for initiation into the Dauntless. Already, I have seen some changes in her personality.

So far, I am really enjoying Romeo and Juliet. I had heard about the story a lot and knew the general details of it but now that we are reading and comprehending it, I am able to understand more about what has referenced it before.

About an Author

Veronica Roth is the autor of Divergent, the book I am currently reading. To find out more information on how she gets the ideas of her book/ to find out her background history, I researched her life. Veronica was born in New York but mainly raised in a suburb of Illinois. She was the youngest of the three children in her family. She has a brother and a sister that both live near her today in Chicago. Her parents got divorced when she was about five years old and she ended up mainly living with her mother. After graduating high school, she attended Northwestern University in Chicago where she majored in creative writing. Veronica wrote Divergent in her senior year at Northwestern while on winter break. Right when it was released, it became a major success. A year later, Veronica wrote and released Insurgent, which is the sequel to Divergent and a year later, Alligence was also released. Divergent is now being made into a movie that will be in theatres later this year. Veronica is still living in Chicago today and writing more books.