40 Book Challenge 10/27/14

Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Prompt: Who are the characters? Describe who they are, what they look like and how they are connected.

Pages 108-157

     The book I am currently reading is Allegiant. The main characters are Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton. They are the characters that make the story engaging, how they develop and how they are connected with each other.

        "Beatrice was a girl I saw in
stolen moments at the mirror
who kept quiet at the dinner table.
This is someone whose eyes claim mine and
don’t release me; this is Tris."
  

     One of the characters, personally my favorite, is Beatrice  Prior aka Tris. Her parents include Natalia Prior and Andrew  Prior. She is very outgoing,  divergent, strong-willed, shows  curiosity, intelligent, and is brave. Her physical appearance is  she is 16 she has a narrow face with a long, thin nose. She has  straight blonde hair, later in the series she cuts her hair shoulder  length. Her tattoos include: three flying birds on her collarbone  (which symbolize her mother, father, and brother), on her right  shoulder is the seal of her old faction, Abnegation, and on her  left shoulder she has a seal of her new faction, Dauntless. She  is Divergent, meaning that she has different outlooks on things,  basically different from other characters in the book. She was  born Abnegation then later changed to a Dauntless initiate. She  is a very powerful girl in this book, how she develops into a  brave and fearless ally.

"I don't want to be just one thing, I can't be. 

I want to be brave and I want to be selfless, 

intelligent and honest and kind."

   

     Another main character is Tobias Eaton aka Four. His parents are Marcus Eaton, and Evelyn Eaton. He is very quiet, mysterious, intelligent, kind, selfless, honest, and brave. His physical appearance is he is 18, he is very muscular and has a very structured face. He has dark brown hair and is 6 feet. His tattoos include all four faction seals on his back (abnegation, dauntless, amity, erudite, and candor). He is Divergent. He was born Abnegation then later changed to a Dauntless initiate. He would train new Dauntless initiates. He is a very quiet character that develops into a manly man.

   

     How these characters connect is they have the same goal and are in love while trying to accomplish their goal. They have finally made it away from the city and out into the outside world, they meet new people and face it. They have different but basically same problems, and they are both Divergent.

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40 Book Challenge 10/20/14

Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Describe the major conflict. What side are you on?

Pages 69-108

     In Allegiant the major conflict is the people from Chicago want to outrun Evelyn, Four's mother (also new leader), because her decisions aren't the best for some of the rebels there. There are two sides the people who think Evelyn is wrong and the people who follow Evelyn. The author explains to us that the people that are against Evelyn have started a group, the Allegiant. 

     The Allegiant have many missions, the author stats them, "In accordance with the intentions of our city's founders, we have two goals: to overthrow Evelyn and the factionless so that we can reestablish the factions, and to send some of our number outside the city to see what's out there." They have sent people out, mostly dauntless initiates, to find more Divergent people outside the city to gain the Divergent population. They then will overthrow Evelyn and her people then go back to the factions system. 

     Evelyn's side wants to keep everyone trapped inside the city and to have no factions. She wants to hide all the secrets on all of the factions like Jeanine Mathews wanted it, except no killing people hysterically. She has many of the people on her side including the factionless which have a big number in size. She will do anything to anyone if they try and stop her.

     I personally agree with the Allegiant because they have a more free type of government. They also don't hide secrets that may even get people killed. I think it is fine to go back with the faction system instead of just being held captive in the city. They allow people to leave the city, as long as they come back. 

"The Lady or the Tiger?"

       Every Heart stopped beating, every breath was held, every eye was fixed immovably upon that man.

       As he went to the door the crowd was hysterical and as he finally opened the door.... A tiger asleep, not awake nor hungry. The crowd gasped in shock, their faces had no slight movement. The king came upon the tiger in rage and kicked him awake. The tiger jumped on his paws, the first thing he saw was the youth. He had sprinted to him, but the youth got a sword from the princess! He grabbed the sword and sliced the tiger's head just like cutting a very juicy watermelon. The crowd grew with applause and the king gasped, walked over to the young man and said, "If you are worthy enough to kill this tiger, you are worthy enough to marry my daughter!" The princess came running down to leap into her new husband's arms (which were filled with blood) and kissed him! After that they lived happily ever after in the kingdom, less barbaric.

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1st Quarter Reflections

         Wait..... We're already done with the 1st Quarter?! It went by fast, I actually have learned and accomplished a lot. I'm excited for the 2nd Quarter already!

          I am doing the 40 book challenge, I'm on my 12 book! 38 more books to go... The book I am currently reading is Allegiant by Veronica Roth, it is the third book in the series of Divergent. I am totally hooked on these books, they show lots of creativity in each book with great detail and support. I like this series better than the Hunger Games series, and that series was great! 

         Throughout this quarter I have learned little things like 20*89+(-20) and bigger things like how to write a paragraph that actually makes sense and is not repetitive. I learned how to annotate more in depth with every article I come to. I learned how to right a topic sentence for the paragraph, to have supporting details, and to always have textual evidence so the reader doesn't think your making things up. I have experienced more genres than just the main ones. I have learned lots of things this quarter and I can't wait to learn more!


         I have also learned things in the world. I have learned about Ebola a lot! Articles and articles and pages and pages on facts about Ebola. Now it's in the US... Time to pack my bags and leave! Just kidding, I have also learned about Malala and what she went through in her life to fight for rights for women and education to kids all around the world. Something that kinda scares me is ISIS, we have been learning about it in class, I wonder if terrorism will ever end...

        I have achieved and I have gained more knowledge a lot in this quarter, on to quarter 2!

40 Book Challenge 10/14/14

Allegiant by Veronica Roth
Prompt: Characterization/Conflict
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      In Allegiant there is many indirect and direct characterization. Indirect is based on the actions of the character. Some indirect characterization was when the author was describing that Tris was anxious because of all the over exaggeration that Christina's Mom was saying. Also, when Tris saw a bunch of girls in bright colors right away she knew that they were Amity girls because of their clothing and how they acted.

    The other side is direct characterization, direct is when right away a character or the author states that the other character is happy, depresses, and etc. Some direct characterization is when Tris says that Uriah is unhappy because he lost two of his great friends. Also when Tobias describes how Tris is very depressed because of what happened with Lynn.

    The setting affects the character because in Allegiant the setting is in Chicago, but not the Chicago we know. This Chicago is separated by walls so no one goes outside. So because of that it kinda drives people insane and want to go outside of the walls, and explore. It effects many of the characters thoughts and actions, the leaders of the area has rules so no one may leave the area.

    The conflict in the story is the war between the people and Erudite, actually that was the conflict but the new conflict is the new leader, Evelyn, and her rules is she wants everything to go back how it was, but some people don't want that..... So there is lots of character development with Tris because she changes her point of view on life, to take less risks. Tobias changes too, he thinks differently about his mother, Evelyn.

40 Book Challenge 10/3/14

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Are the characters realistic?

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        In Insurgent by Veronica Roth has very realistic characters to me. The main character Beatrice Prior, aka Tris, she seems real to me because she relates to regular people in this world. She is Divergent, being Divergent just means having more than one type of characteristic. In our world everyone has multiple characteristics, based on their personality, like you can be smart (Erudite) and peaceful (Amity). In the book it explains that everyone only can be one thing (Erudite, Dauntless, Amity, Candor, and Abnegation), one personality and if you are more than one of the examples then you are to be captured and killed. Tris in the book seems like a very real character based on the fact that everyone has many personalities and anyone could have many different characteristics.

   
      A character in Insurgent that to me is not that is not very realistic is Jeanine Matthews, the head of the Erudite faction, she would always try and control everyone and make a fearless army. The crazy thing was she controlled everyone with some sort of serum, where they where controlled by her and a computer. I thought that nobody could be that so controlling. She was very intelligent and no one really liked her because of what she did. The author states that she was trying to keep everyone in one city and to keep everyone in order, I think that is kinda crazy.



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