Insurgent Review

    I chose Insurgent because I read the first book in the series which is Divergent. I loved Divergent so much and I could not wait to start Insurgent, and I ended up loving Insurgent even more! I thought everything about the book and the way it was written was so amazing. I read the whole series in three weeks because it was so good, I read all of Insurgent in a day because of how good it was. I would recommend the book to someone who likes action books but with romance. The combination of the two works really well and it makes the book so incredible. Also if you like to read about Utopian societies then you would like this book a lot I think. If you liked the Hunger Games this is a lot similar but better so that would be another to read Insurgent or the whole series. If you're looking for a new book this is your book so you should read it!

Are you hooked yet?

“Dauntless traitors crowded the hallway; the Erudite crowd the execution room, but there, they have made a path for me already. Silently they study me as I walk to the metal table in the center of the room. Jeanine stands a few steps away. The scratches on her face show through hastily applied makeup. She doesn't look at me.

Four cameras dangle from the ceiling, one at each corner of the table. I sit down first, wipe my hands off on my pants, and then lie down.

The table is cold. Frigid, seeping into my skin, into my bones. Appropriate, perhaps, because that is what will happen to my body when all the life leaves it; it will become cold and heavy, heavier than I have ever been. As for the rest of me, I am not sure. Some people believe that I will go nowhere, and maybe they’re right, but maybe they’re not. Such speculations are no longer useful to me anyway.

Peter slips an electrode beneath the collar of my shirt and presses it to my chest, right over my heart. He then attaches a wire to the electrode and switches on the heart monitor. I hear my heartbeat, fast and strong. Soon, where that steady rhythm was, there will be nothing.

And then rising from within me is a single thought:

I don’t want to die." 

This is one of my favorite parts of Insurgent, it is a really serious point in the book.  I don't want to give anything away because this is a big deal in the book so I don't want to ruin it. My best way of explaining this without giving anything away would be that during this part the main character is going through a very traumatic experience and she is emotionally struggling during this part. Potentially something extremely huge is about to happen but I'm not going to reveal that information because you should just read the book and find out!

Insurgent Update

        I'm almost done with my book and a lot has happened so far. Tris and Tobias have changed a ton in this book. They have both had to work really hard to stay together and not fight over everything. They both had to go under truth serum and that brought up a lot of things between them since they were keeping secrets from each other. Tris and Tobias both really want to help everyone and get rid of Jeanine and they are currently working with the factionless to complete that. The problem is Tris doesn't trust people as much and is struggling to trust the factionless and Tobias but Tobias is trusting them because of his mom. By not trusting one another they are struggling a lot to come up with good plans to help everyone and to stay together.

       The big theme that seems to be appearing in my book is to trust yourself and ourselves. Other themes that come up would be to always try your best to help others but to also be as brave as you possibly can because in my book the say to be brave you have to be selfless also. I think these themes are really good because they show you ways to be a better person. My book is all from Tris's point of view ,which is nice because you get to hear everything shes thinking and experiencing and I think that adds to the meaning of the book overall.

Insurgent

      This summer I started reading the sequel to Diveregent which is called Insurgent. So far it has been a really good book, better than the first one I would say. The major characters ares till Tris and Tobias (previously known as Four). So far in the book Tris has really started to change because she is started to accept her divergence more and accept what has happened to her more. She is still really upset about everything that happened to her family but she is getting through it with Tobias's help. Tobias has developed because he is trying to control himself more around his dad Marcus which is really hard for him. Currently they are living at the Amity compound but I think they will have to move soon because I think the people are going to find them and that would make them leave.

    If the people from the city find them it will be bad because to a lot of the people in the city like Jeanine and Eric they betrayed them. Also Jeanine wants to kill everyone who is Divergent and she knows that they both are so she is looking for them so that she can kill them and I'm worried if she finds them one of them might die.I'm really interested to see what will happen if she does find them and to see what they all end up choosing to do about everything.

The worst thing about my book is

          My book is really good overall but there are a few things that bother me. I've seen the movie so I think that ruins some things for me that are supposed to be surprising. I wish I didnt see the movie forst because if I hadnt I think it would make the book seem super good instead of just good.

        Another thing that bothers me is how long soem fo the chapters are. I have a short attention span so when there are long chapters, it really bothers me because then I lose attention and I have to reread stuff. I fell like if the chapters were shorter it would make the book go by a lot faster sicne the book is so long it would be  nice to have it go by faster.

Struggles

       Currently in Divergent Tris is in initiation. During initiation she changed her name from Beatrice to Tris. Initiation is something dauntless does, where they say you chose us now its our turn to choose you. They go three stages and after each stage people get kicked out, in the end there will only be ten initiates, currently there is 21. If they don't get picked they will become factionless, which is everyones worse nightmare in their world.

        Tris is worried because she is the only abnegation transfer and hasn't experienced what most of the others have and she is really weak compared to them. She is struggling because she is putting herwself through a lot of physical pain, pain she has never experienced before. She keeps loosing part of her family in her mind by being different then how she she ever was. She got a tattoo which is frowned upon, she is showing more skin, she looked at herself in the mirror, and wore clothes they didnt wear. She is struggling with this because she doesnt want tot loose all of her family connections. I'm worried to see how initiation goes for her because I dont want her end up factionless.

Blog Reflection

I chose my post titled Best thing about Divergent, I like this post because I think my voice really shows throughout the post.  I show my opinion by using adjectives that I think describe whatever I’m talking about at that moment.  I said, “If the characters were boring you'd probably stop reading it or read it and hate it because it would be boring without complex characters.” I think this shows how I feel well because I’m stating that the book would be boing if the characters weren’t the way they are. It showcases how I feel books and their characters should be.

I use elevated diction by describing things with higher vocabulary instead of casual words like nice and cool. I describe things with more detail instead of barely describing things and giving them a simple description. I said, “The author also makes a lot of the characters very complex and interesting, by having the characters like that it helps you stay interested in the book and what is happening in the book.” I use words like complex and interesting to give you a better understanding of the characters not just they’re nice, I tell you that there is a lot to them in as a person.  I use longer sentences to explain how I fell and explain what is happening. By doing so I think everything makes since more.  I said, “Another great thing about the book is how much detail the author gives you on what is happening, you know what is happening at every precise moment.” This is a longer sentence to show how the detail does affect your reading and how it helps you.