Yeay! Today I'm going to write a post to extract all these inappropriate excitement I have for the upcoming Divergent sequel, which is named Insurgent.
I've sort of participated in Veronica Roth's INSURGENT ARC and yeah, like all odds I always lose. But it's okay, it will be fun to crash the bookstore and kicking asses to get that thing. Yeah, literally, I am serious on the kicking-ass part. I think everyone will be crashing into the bookstore for the book. And I will love to do that.
I hope you know that DIVERGENT has been my most favorite read in 2011, and it reached #1 on my favorite read and #2 is The Host. Well, I guess I never reveal that. I also read THE HUNGER GAMES in 2011, but I wonder why I do not have that hype like I had when reading Tris.
So after the phenomenal success of the trilogy, dystopia books are increasing. Many authors love to create bad governments with cruel and inhuman rules in their country, and things are just too much now. Well, thanks to the three books of the Games that revived this genre. Dystopia had once been famous before our YA-hood and the books are such The Running Man by Stephen King or 1984 by George Orwell.
The Hunger Games has become the third literary phenomena after Harry Potter and Twilight. But what's cool is The Hunger Games is unique in its own way -- really, really bad government, a girl who rebels on live TV and a hectic slash crazy citizens of Panem. When I first read them, I didn't know if I was feeling good about it. I guess I was depressed because we were following Katniss on her journey through the pages of the book, but it was amazing when she was fighting strongly, lit a fire that sparks the rebellion to stand up fiercer and then the trilogy ends. After the end, we felt astonished and amazed. Like, "Oh my God, she's freaking a teen and she changed the world!"
It is not real. It's fictitious, but dystopia gave readers a realistic impact. We couldn't sleep in the progress of reading these books. We was thinking about our characters, hoping that their strength would multiplied, and there were lots of other things that made dystopia a really, really realistic fiction genre. And why Young Adult loves it, especially the ones who are still in high school? Yes, because high school seems like a dystopian world.
Then DIVERGENT is released. It is a dystopian thriller, and in comparing The Hunger Games to this book, I was trapped inside this book deeper because the characters are high school characters, and what's cool the bad ruler of this world is among of young adults.
The book is basically about a society divided into five factions classified for selflessness, peacefulness, honesty, intelligence and bravery. It's a compulsory rule for every sixteen-year old to choose their factions. And they will undergo aptitude test that will show them the most fitting faction for them, but the test will not change their choice. You may choose to stay with your family, but if you found you are bored with the faction you are born to, you may leave them eternally.
So if you find bravery's cool and you can't initiate to what they do (jumping on moving trains, shoot a gun on someone you love, jump off from a tall building, climb a moving ferris wheel), you'll fail the initiation and you'll be thrown from the society, and you are the factionless, and factionless people live in poverty.
Beatrice is sixteen. In her test, she's fitting to more than one faction, and that makes her a Divergent. Divergent is secretly dangerous, and she must keep her Divergence low.
Well, she still has to choose her faction, doesn't she? Living for sixteen years in her faction Abnegation that makes selfless as priorities, she feels as if her freedom is stolen completely and she left to the Dauntless, a faction for bravery. That's when she meets new people and she was exposed to dangerous plan of one of the bad factions in the society that tried to shatter the slightly insane world and make it more ridiculous. And yeah, she will try to stop the plan.
When I reread THE HUNGER GAMES for the movie, I started to feel that I love Beatrice more. In Catching Fire, I was devastated of Katniss who couldn't actually see or make a good choice. She seems to always follow what people had told her to do, and it was hard for Katniss to stay put and do things based on her heart. That's because she didn't have a good heart to choose, to decide, and all she did was what from the others' heart. The most devastating thing that I saw in her is her weakness in choosing between Peeta and Gale. If she's a brilliant girl, she'll see that there's no point of being in love and felt torn between the two like how Bella feels between Edward and Jacob. She'll know that Gale was more like her older brother, her companion, her strength, and she'll see that Peeta is her only trustworthy friend, a worthy lover and someone who always stay by her side no matter what happens. But she didn't see that.
Beatrice Prior, she goes to bravery by her heart. She meets Four, and she do love him, but that's not the main point in her story and there's a bigger picture that she wanted to show us other than his relationship with the guy. She never regret of whatever she'd done, like how she left her family and go to another faction, on how she fix her strength to through the rest of the initiation. She's a calm girl, she never torture herself even whatever happens to her. And what's best, she knows who to love, and she knows why, and she knows what to do.
So in conclusion, The Hunger Games is a phenomenal story, and the world is way far brilliant than Divergent, obviously. But to me, what's important in a book is the storyteller. Katniss's strength was massively amazing and it's mostly is a form of physical. Beatrice has a strength of heart, which honestly, I don't think Katniss actually have. Tris's strength of heart that makes her believe that she'll be strong wholly, ultimately. So Beatrice Prior is my choice if to compare with Katniss Everdeen.
So, Happy Abnegation!
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