Divergent Compare And Contrast Essay

Have you ever wondered why people are unaccepted? To be accepted is a common thing that rings through books, like the books Divergent and the girl that only had 2 arms and 2 legs. In the book Divergent, people are always nagging on each other. This also appears in the short story “The girl that had only 2 arms and 2 legs.” You may not realize it reading it, but they are very alike. In both stories, they all need to accept each other. That’s the common theme that rings through both of the amazing stories. If you take the book “Divergent”, the writer wants to teach that you need to learn how to “Be accepting” to have a good life. The protagonist Tris turned Dauntless. People try to kill her so many times. Along with that, even if you were Abnegation and turned Dauntless you were made fun no matter who in the world you are. Three people then try to keep pushing her off a cliff, really for no apparent reason, beside they just didn’t accept her for who she was. Once, she was the best on the board, people once again just hated her because she was simply better than them, which isn’t a good reason to not accept someone. …show more content…
A girl ( the protagonist), Quarta was bullied and bullied her whole life, and not accepted because she had a very bad deformity. With half the amount of arms and legs as everyone else that would be very hard. Especially in high/middle school. Quarta isn’t the only one that is like a “super freak” according to the text there is also a kid named Shay he is also deformed to where he can not use two out of four of his arms, but he on the other hand is the only one who understands Quartas pain. She really tries to be normal and accepted but she just isn’t. This short story and the book up there prove my point that the author wants us to know, man, we have to be