The Divergent: Movie Analysis

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The Divergent book contains certain details that don’t appear in the movie. In order to evaluate and critique both I will create this compare and contrast essay. Some differences are very noticeable. Other differences are more complex. Some details were even left out. The setting on the divergent book is very organized and seems to be perfect. The setting on the film actually helped me and gave me a clearer image of what I had to think of. Nevertheless the imagery that the book provides even though unclear at first, its more vivid. Events shown in the movie lack important content of the novel. A simple example of this would be when Tris wants to see Caleb in the novel she goes and asks to see him in a demanding tone at the desk with the portrait …show more content…
The two characters that stuck out to me the most were Beatrice especially in her physical appearance was very weak and made it obvious she was different from the rest and Erik in the novel is very raw, cruel, and harsh leader while in the movie the characters seem to come up short and inaccurate to the ones in the book. Tris looks normal and acts like everyone else until they tell her she is divergent. Eric is just a little mean compared to what he sounded like in the book. The are many differences between the novel and the movie a few that are really simple would be in the book dauntless only wear black and their pit is lit with a dark stone in the movie dauntless wore black and red and their pit was lit up whit a light white sort of grayish appearance. Tris gets shot in her rights arm in the book and in the film Tris is shot in her left arm, In the book a girl falls in the initiation test when she has to jump from the train to the roof in the movies and immediately dies in the film the girl is left dangling but is not killed and for whoever read the book it’s an easy conclusion but for the one who didn’t wouldn’t have a clue. These are very insignificant details and I don’t know why the author might have changed them possibly because they wouldn’t be as important and wanted to focus more on what was actually going on or maybe they didn’t notice they had miss such ignorant

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