Divergent By Veronica Roth: Movie Analysis

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Divergent is a young adult Dystopian novel written by Veronica Roth, a college student. After its release by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2011, it was an immediate success, seeing as a mere college student had quite the critic for society in pages containing the story of Beatrice Prior, a teenage post-Chicago resident in an “Utopian” society, struggling with abnormality upon not conforming with the restrictions placed on metaphysical individuality. Evidently, those who could see that were eventually outnumbered, thus bringing Roth’s work the wrong kind of attention. Upon the fandom’s mass expansion, the Divergent movie was quickly brought about in 2014, excessively adding cliches to those presented in the book, science fiction guidelines …show more content…
For instance, each faction is left with its own original uniform and law code, behavioral patterns being perceptible to some extent. Beatrice’s mother ties her hair up into a bun, her brother immediately helps a woman with her things, and Abnegation in general chooses to remain quiet instead of retaliating against signs of aggression. The sole representative of Candor in the first scene reveals a Candor’s natural desire to seek the truth in everything, no matter the cost, the Dauntless drawing the attention away from the matter and to themselves by noisily stampeding into the school. It’s still obvious that the classroom in which the students await their tests results was designed by the Erudite, blue and transparent walls surrounding them. The simulation and choosing ceremony settings are accurate, Dauntless procedure doing an equal amount of justice to what’s written. People found these aspects of the movie rather …show more content…
Not only was she a speaker, but she also talked to Beatrice’s parents, who sat down with their daughter as she awaited her turn. After the ceremony, Beatrice inaccurately scaled a wall before being helped onto a moving train. Surprisingly, they left the part in which a transfer failed to catch the train and became factionless out, too. Over at the rooftop the initiates jumped onto, Eric, who wasn’t supposed to appear until after the group’s first Dauntless meal, greeted them instead of Max. In this scene, we see inaccurate representations of both Eric and Alfred. Eric had tattoos and piercings, yes, but he had short, light-colored hair, as opposed to long black hair. Alfred was white instead of black, green eyes adorning his foreseeable

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