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20262877.Pdf CHOOSING TO BE INSURGENT OR ALLEGIANT Other Works by Valerie Estelle Frankel Henry Potty and the Pet Rock: An Unauthorized Harry Potter Parody Henry Potty and the Deathly Paper Shortage: An Unauthorized Harry Potter Parody Buffy and the Heroine’s Journey From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine’s Journey in Myth and Legend Katniss the Cattail: An Unauthorized Guide to Names and Symbols in The Hunger Games The Many Faces of Katniss Everdeen: Exploring the Heroine of The Hunger Games Harry Potter, Still Recruiting: An Inner Look at Harry Potter Fandom An Unexpected Parody: The Unauthorized Spoof of The Hobbit Movie Teaching with Harry Potter Myths and Motifs in The Mortal Instruments Winning the Game of Thrones: The Host of Characters and their Agendas Winter is Coming: Symbols, Portents, and Hidden Meanings in A Game of Thrones Bloodsuckers on the Bayou: The Myths, Symbols, and Tales Behind HBO's True Blood The Girl’s Guide to the Heroine’s Journey Doctor Who and the Hero’s Journey: The Doctor and Companions as Chosen Ones Doctor Who - The What, Where, and How: A Fannish Guide to the TARDIS-Sized Pop Culture Jam CHOOSING TO BE INSURGENT OR ALLEGIANT SYMBOLS, THEMES & ANALYSIS OF THE DIVERGENT TRILOGY Choosing to be Insurgent or Allegiant is an unauthorized guide and commentary on Divergent and its related universe. None of the individuals or companies associated with the books or movies or any merchandise based on this series have in any way sponsored, approved, endorsed, or authorized this book. Copyright © 2013 Valerie Estelle Frankel All rights reserved. LitCrit Press Contents Introduction .................................................................................. 11 Factions .......................................................................................... 13 Choosing Factions ................................................................... 13 Escaping the Factions ............................................................. 14 Understanding the Factions ................................................... 15 Destroying the Factions ......................................................... 18 Dystopia ......................................................................................... 21 Dystopian Inspiration ............................................................. 24 Comparisons to Hunger Games ........................................... 30 What to Wear: Dressing for Dystopia ................................. 38 Symbols .......................................................................................... 43 Beatrice’s Symbols ................................................................... 43 Ravens and Crows ................................................................... 46 Food ........................................................................................... 47 Names and Numbers .............................................................. 48 Vocabulary’s Deeper Meanings ............................................. 50 The Heroine’s Journey ................................................................ 55 Savior of the Innocent ............................................................ 55 Family ........................................................................................ 57 Threshold .................................................................................. 58 Friends, Allies, Love................................................................ 61 Divergent’s Climax .................................................................. 64 Facing the Shadow .................................................................. 67 Wicked Stepmother ................................................................. 73 Death .......................................................................................... 75 Gender Roles ................................................................................. 79 The Warrior Woman and Romance ...................................... 88 Psychology Personality and Fear ................................................ 95 Brain Chemistry ........................................................................ 98 Genes.......................................................................................... 99 Personality Tests ..................................................................... 100 The Nature of War and the Child Soldier .......................... 106 Themes ......................................................................................... 109 Coming of Age, Kids versus Adults ................................... 109 Prejudice .................................................................................. 114 Religion .................................................................................... 116 The Nature of Bravery .......................................................... 121 Free Will ................................................................................... 123 Setting ........................................................................................... 127 Fan Responses ............................................................................. 133 Movie ............................................................................................ 137 Future Plans ................................................................................. 139 Characters of the Series ............................................................. 141 Works Cited ................................................................................. 143 Primary Sources ...................................................................... 143 Interviews ................................................................................ 144 Secondary Sources.................................................................. 145 Index ............................................................................................. 149 About the Author ....................................................................... 154 10 VALERIE ESTELLE FRANKEL Introduction In May 2011, HarperCollins imprint Katherine Tegen Books published Divergent, the debut novel by then 22-year-old author Veronica Roth. The first in a planned trilogy, Divergent describes a future Chicago in which society is divided into five personality-based factions – Candor, Erudite, Amity, Dauntless, Abnegation – and the main character, Tris, struggles to fit into her chosen group. (C.J.) Insurgent followed a year later, then Allegiant was published the following October, less than six months before the upcoming film from Summit Entertainment – the studio behind Twilight. “The Hunger Games was just becoming a thing when I was finishing writing it,” Roth says, and Divergent led the next wave of YA dystopian fiction. The timing worked in her favor, and so did the current distaste for fragile YA heroines like Twilight’s Bella Swan; Tris is strong and uncompromising … Despite its trendiness, Roth sees Divergent less as a traditional “point a finger at society” novel and more of a personal critique. (Dobbins) The book, published by a student still in college, did astoundingly, instantly well. “Divergent was published in May 2011 and spent eleven consecutive weeks on the New York Times’ children’s best-seller list; the sequel, Insurgent, debuted at No. 1 a year later” (Dobbins). Though Roth herself joked the 11 CHOOSING TO BE INSURGENT OR ALLEGIANT next book would be called Detergent, with a box of soap on the cover, Allegiant concluded the series. As with Harry Potter, Twilight, Hunger Games, and others, the fandom has been vocal and expressive, filling the internet with creative works and speaking eagerly at young adult literature conferences. One critic adds: They not only read the books, they emotionally devour them, often multiple times. So, if a majority of readers have a gripe about a character’s motivations seeming unrealistic to the story, they most likely have a point. And whether they intend to or not, they help Roth market her series across Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and other various social media streams. There’s something special about YA readers. We are not a quiet bunch that takes reading as a personal endeavor; our engagement and emotional attachment is unparalleled in other reader groups, and to disregard that is Roth’s mistake. (White) This style of book, which makes such an enormous impact on our teen culture, also lends itself well to scholarly examination. What can readers learn about prejudice, courage, heroism, leadership, sacrifice from reading this story. What deeper symbolism appears in Tris and Tobias’s fear landscapes? How does the heroine’s journey unfold in a dystopian world? For that matter, why are dystopias so popular now and what do they say about the current teen culture? This book explores all those questions and more, inviting readers to dig deeper through Roth’s unusual vocabulary and vibrant images to find the true meaning of being Divergent. 12 VALERIE ESTELLE FRANKEL Factions Choosing Factions “Tomorrow at the Choosing Ceremony, I will decide on a faction; I will decide the rest of my life; I will decide to stay with my family or abandon them,” Tris says at the first novel’s opening (2). Tris explains that to live factionless “is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community” (20). Emphasis is placed on one’s adopted family of like-minded individuals, rather than the family of birth. As the story progresses, this attitude changes. Roth explains,
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