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Publishing her award winning trilogy Divergent in 2011 Veronica Roth has gone on to write the rest of the series including Insurgent. The author has written with integrity showing readers consequences of their actions, revolutions and how our society could end up being with corrupt government officials. This book analyzes how the government can affect the society in tremendous ways but also displays how one person can change everything. Shown in the late teenage protagonist Tris Prior is the mental health effects caused by revolution and how bad it can be face punishment. Because she creates Tris and Tobias as complex characters while showing their developments throughout the story, Veronica Roth accomplishes informing the readers about consequences of making wrong choices and how future society can be while entertaining them with revolution. The novels starts with Tris Prior with Tobias Eaton and the rest of the remaining council members on the train heading to the welcoming arms of Amity in post apocalyptic Chicago. After surviving the Dauntless attack lead by Jeanine, Tris has to find shelter where she will not be exposed. But instead Tris forced to leave Amity in search for a new home. Throughout this time she struggles with her mental health and her relationship with her brother Caleb and boyfriend Tobias. She finds herself with the Candor and Factionless who leaders she can not seem to trust. Being attacked again by Jeanine and her minions she finds out that all the citizens were hit with a simulation serum. While under the simulation they let out a message saying for the Divergent (Tris) to surrender herself or everyday three new people will die. Tris is left with the choice to give herself up and be executed or continue leading the revolution she started. Roth relies on major character development to show just how bad it can be to deal with the effects of your actions and that it can get better. The novel shows how badly Tris’ mental health is affected by...
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