Friday, April 4, 2014

                                                   
                                                                   Divergent

       Divergent by Veronica Roth is a book and movie about love, making the right decision and surviving.
It is located in Chicago after the war and split in 5 factions.
 Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity, Candor and Erudite. The 16 year old girl, Beatrice (Tris),in the movie played by Shailene Woodely, has to make the decision whether she wants to  transform from her faction Abnegation to another, or stay with her family her whole life. The result of her aptitude test, which should help her decide and tells her to which faction she belongs to, was shocking. Tris is Divergent, which means that she belongs in more than one faction and that it is dangerous.
It is also a love story of Tris and Four, in the movie played by Theo James.
       The movie and book are pretty similar, even though the movie did not show us many scenes. Anyways, the scene where they had to jump of the train and roof where really similar. The description of the book was reflected in the movie, and to be honest, my imaginary of the roof and jumping out off the train was almost the same as in the movie. Another pretty similar scene was the scene when Tris got her first tatoo. They explained it really nice in the book and the movie set was just perfect.
        But there were also differences of movie and book. One example is the fight with Molly, first of all the first fight was not with Molly and second of all, Tris won against Molly. The movie kinda messed the scenes up because when Molly and Tris fought, I thought that the movie is almost over because the actual fight with Molly was pretty much at the end of the stages.
        There was also a simulation of Tris where, in the book, she killed herself because she did not want to kill her family, but in the movie she killed a member of her family. It was kinda confusing because you knew that she was gonna shoot herself, but then she shot her family.
       All in all it was such a great experience to read the book and watch the movie. First I thought it is gonna be pretty boring but as I was reading it I realized how awesome the book is and I really got into it.
To be honest I like the book better than the movie, just because there was so much more description in the book than in the movie. Though, I really like the actors in the movie and I am glad that we watched such a great movie like this.