Divergent
By Kirstyn Dvorak
Even since I was a little kid I loved to read. I always
preferred reading a book to watching a movie because being able to imagine the
characters gives the story so much more meaning. Some of you may be calling me
a nerd right now, trying to figure why I would ever want to waste my time
reading a stimulating, exciting novel. First of all, reading never made you
dumber. Second of all, let me remind you that you are reading right now. I encourage you all to read the Divergent series by Veronica Roth. This
is by far the best series I have ever read, and yes, I have read The Hunger Games.
The Divergent
series follows a sixteen year old girl named Tris as she is forced to make
decisions about her character and who she wants to be in life. In her society,
she must choose between five different factions that separately value honesty,
bravery, selflessness, knowledge, and peace, and whether or not to leave her
family behind to become her own person. These books also contain a love story
for you Hunger Games fans, because
for some reason danger, adventure, and tough personal decisions aren’t enough
for you.
This story is one that
makes you question your character and makes you want to better yourself. For
me, the Divergent series made me want
to be braver. I have always been the person that stands on the sideline and
watches my friends do fun things because I’m too big a chicken to join in. I
now know that I don’t want to be that person anymore. From now on you will find
me right in the middle of the action.
If all those reasons aren’t enough for you to pick up this
book, the movie will be coming out in 2014 and it’s going to be BIG. If you
don’t read them now, most of you will wish you had either because you want to
get in on the conversation about the series like everyone else is, you want to
seem intellectual by saying you read the book first, or you’re a hipster and
you can’t possibly read them after everyone else already has.
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