Divergent Connections

Divergent Connections:

While I was reading the book Divergent, I noticed several text to text connections I could make with books that i had previously read. The main story line behind the book was that a new socitey had been created where the population is divided into five factions based on how the persons mind worked. So if they were truthful they would belong in Candor, peaceful Amity, brave Dauntless, intelligent Erudite, and selfless Abnegation. The book was based on a dystopian society just like the book I had read called Maze Runner. In this book though, the characters are placed into a Maze while having their memories taken away from them. Then the people who are placed in the maze have to learn to work together and create/rebuild a society of thier own. And the main purpose of the book was that their wasnt just one maze, but multiple maze's in which they entered the people so they could examine they abilities. So the point where I thought that these two books had some sort of connection or similar story line was when I looked back at the entire story and compared the two. In Divergent, they set up the society with factions that was separate from the rest of the world around them so that they could put the "best" and most "sane" people from the outside world in there and watch them to see what made them better than the others. The world around them was shattered and broken and dangerous to live in while the society almost provided them with a sort of "safe haven". In the The Maze Runner, its also very similar because a group of special kids who have rare traits that many people would kill to have, are placed in a Maze where they can be analyzed and studied to see what caused them to have these special traits. Then those who live outside the Maze live in a threatening and fearful environment which they were hoping to fix by developing a cure. This proves how the books have a fairly similar story line because they both are some sorts of "experiments", they are both based on a dystopian society, they both talk about how in the future the world starts to crumble to pieces and they need to come up with ways to help fix it, and they both include a main character who is aided by friends to take down those that are in control of them. Also there is a connection between the main characters in both of the books. In Divergent the main character Tris makes the choice to leave Abnegation even though, "few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember." (pg 34, Roth) This choice of hers was out of the norm and not what most people would. its what helped define her as brave. In the Maze Runner, Thomas the main character also has to make a difficult choice where either he has to lose all his memories and enter an experiment where he could help contribute to save the world or instead stay on the outside as he was doing and just continuing to watch the experiment progress slowly. The choice that the two of them had to make was not only life changing to them but it also had a greater impact on the world around them as well.