Divergent And The Giver Comparison

In the book Divergent and The Giver Tris and Jonas are the main protagonists, that play important parts in the story. Tris is a young women that faces many hard decisions that have to do with where she belongs. Jonas is a young man that lives in a society where everything is kept a secret. Tris from Divergent and Jonas from The Giver have similarities and differences. Tris and Jonas are both characters that face tough decisions and live complicated lives. For example, in the book Divergent Four says “The first thing you will learn today is how to shoot a gun. The second thing is how to win a fight.” All of these fighting techniques are new to Tris, and will take time for her to learn. “The room was absolutely silent, and for a moment Jonas feared that he might disgrace himself now, on the first day of his train-ing, by falling asleep,” as said in The Giver. On Jonas’s first day of training he is confused, but the Giver guides his through his training for many days. Throughout the book Divergent Tris has to figure out which faction she belongs to, and learn how to survive in that faction. Four is Tris’s advisor and he teaches her tips on surviving in the Dauntless compound. Jonas is given a job, Receiver, and he also has to figure out how to complete his tasks. The Giver mentors Jonas and teaches him how to receive memories. In addition, “My eyes shift to the bowls in the center of the room. What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know,” as read in Divergent, explains the troublesome decision Tris had to make. In the book The Giver it states, “It was possible, what they had planned. Barely possible. If it failed, he …show more content…
Tris and Jonas both create the beginning and end of their stories, and shape the meaning and storyline with their personalities. In both of the stories a good life lesson is to face the obstacles and push toward your objective even though it can be