Divergent Official Illustrated Movie Companion
By Kate Egan
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About this ebook
Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling novel Divergent is now a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet!
With never-before-seen photos; personal interviews with the directors, actors, and writers; and exclusive extras, this lush, oversize volume is a true behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Divergent.
And don't miss The Fates Divide, Veronica Roth's powerful sequel to the bestselling Carve the Mark!
Kate Egan
Kate Egan’s gifts and talents all involve words. She is the author of a picture book, Kate and Nate Are Running Late!, and a chapter book series, The Magic Shop, both published by Feiwel and Friends. Her work has been named to many state reading lists, selected by the Junior Library Guild, and recognized as “Best of the Year” by Amazon. She is also a freelance editor, a prolific ghostwriter, and an occasional book reviewer. Kate lives with her family on the coast of Maine.
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Divergent Official Illustrated Movie Companion - Kate Egan
Author Veronica Roth.
FORCED TO CHOOSE. . .
In a future world that’s neatly divided into five factions—Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Erudite (the learned), and Dauntless (the brave)—you’d think it would be easy to find your place. After all, each faction embodies one of the best qualities in human nature. And within any faction, a person finds community. Responsibility. Love. It’s a simple but satisfying system.
Unless you don’t fit in.
Sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior, born into Abnegation, knows she doesn’t belong fully in any of these groups. Her aptitude test has revealed something terrible: She’s suited for more than one faction.
Divergent, it’s called. In this world, that’s a dangerous thing to be. Peace and stability depend on people pledging loyalty to one faction above all else—even family. But a person who doesn’t fit into any category could have divided loyalties. And a person with divided loyalties might not be easily controlled.
Beatrice can’t share this secret with anyone, not even her parents. But now she knows there’s a reason she’s never felt quite like the rest of her quiet, self-sacrificing family. Now she knows why she’s always been drawn to the daring Dauntless kids at school. She could be one of them, too, if she wanted.
Tomorrow, she will have to choose.
The faction system allows Beatrice to leave Abnegation for another faction at the Choosing Ceremony. There’s only one catch: It will mean cutting ties with her family forever.
Poised at the edge of adulthood, this girl must make a permanent and life-altering decision, with consequences she can’t foresee. Should she stay safe inside the limits she has always known, together with her family? Or should she take a chance on what’s in her heart and leave everything else behind?
Veronica Roth sets up this conflict in the opening chapters of her stunning 2011 debut novel, Divergent. It’s as if she has distilled the entire teen experience into these few pages, recognizing that moving into adulthood can also mean leaving beloved people and places behind.
Shailene Woodley as Beatrice Tris
Prior.
As Roth explains it, I think it’s the classic coming-of-age moment, but exaggerated. At some point in your life you have to decide if you’re going to stick with the way you were raised and fully commit to what your parents have taught you to do, or to listen to your own internal compass. And sometimes your internal compass leads you to where your parents actually wanted you to go. I don’t think any teenager’s really experiencing this on quite so intense a level, but I think it’s the reason so many people have connected to the story.
What will Beatrice choose? The rest of Roth’s ambitious tale unfolds from this question.
When Beatrice chooses to go—and to grow—she leaps into Dauntless, a faction that’s the opposite of everything she’s known before. In Dauntless, she accepts challenges and embraces dangers that leave her both terrified and exhilarated. She grows close to other people for the first time—including Four, the mysterious instructor with whom she has an electric connection. She becomes, in some ways, the person she’s always wanted to be. She even gives herself a new name: short, sharp Tris.
The Prior family hugs before the Choosing Ceremony (L to R: Ansel Elgort, Tony Goldwyn, Ashley Judd, Shailene Woodley).
Still called Beatrice (Shailene Woodley), she makes her decision at the Choosing Ceremony.
Tris is uniquely unqualified for the rigors of the Dauntless initiation, which require her to be aggressive in a way that would never be allowed in Abnegation. If she fails, though, Tris will be factionless. Homeless, abandoned, and alone. Somehow, she finds the strength to push through.
But Divergent is much more than the story of a girl beginning to shape her own destiny. Roth also uses her novel to explore the limits of a rigid utopian society. The aptitude test and the Choosing Ceremony exclude and deny Divergents. But it’s in her Divergence, finally, that Tris finds her greatest strength. When she embraces the full range of her qualities as a human being, she can play an active role in her world. Even as it is falling apart.
While once Tris believed that the factions lived side by side in peace, she understands her world differently now that she’s inside Dauntless. There’s tension among the initiates from different factions, and that tension reflects what is happening beyond the Dauntless pit. Erudite is moving against Abnegation to seize control of the government. Then the Erudite will use the Dauntless—the society’s soldiers—to do their will.
Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) on the Ferris wheel during Capture the Flag.
But there are some Dauntless who can’t be controlled. The ones who are Divergent . . . like Tris.
Against the twin backdrops of a crumbling utopia and a powerful first love, Tris must forge her new identity, accept what it means to be Divergent, and find a way to protect the family she’s left behind.
Author Veronica Roth did not set out, at first, to write a dystopian novel at all. When she was in her first year of college, she began with a single image of a person jumping off a building, as a test of bravery, and started to ask herself some questions. Who would do that? she wondered. And why?
In the psychology class she was taking at the time, Roth remembers, she was studying exposure therapy. It’s a way of treating people with anxiety and phobias in which they are repeatedly exposed to the stimulus that frightens them,
she says. So someone who is afraid of heights will go into an elevator for longer and longer periods, say, until their brain rewires and they’re not as afraid of that thing anymore.
When she thought of the person jumping off the building, she saw someone trying to face their darkest fears.
Soon she invented the idea that this person—a boy she was calling Tobias—would confront his fears in an artificial environment, sometime in the future. So the idea for Dauntless came from these simulated environments in which a person can encounter their fears safely,
Roth recalls. And the theory of the Dauntless is that over time the fear will be gone and you’ll create fearless people.
If there was a group where people tried to conquer fear, Roth decided, there could also be